Manas Ranjan Mohanty is the Additional Director at CAFRAL, leading Learning and Development initiatives. A career central banker, he has previously served as Managing Director of BRBNMPL and Chief General Manager of the Department of Currency Management, RBI. His core expertise spans strategy, currency management and printing, banking supervision, financial inclusion and education, agriculture finance, HR, and leadership development ,etc.
He has served on the Boards of SPMCIL and BNPMIPL and...
Manas Ranjan Mohanty is the Additional Director at CAFRAL, leading Learning and Development initiatives. A career central banker, he has previously served as Managing Director of BRBNMPL and Chief General Manager of the Department of Currency Management, RBI. His core expertise spans strategy, currency management and printing, banking supervision, financial inclusion and education, agriculture finance, HR, and leadership development ,etc.
He has served on the Boards of SPMCIL and BNPMIPL and is currently on the Boards of a few NBFCs. He has also worked with the State Bank, National Insurance Co. Ltd., and the National Agricultural Research Programme. As MD of BRBNMPL, he championed CSR initiatives in tribal education, animal welfare, women’s health, and heritage conservation. He conceptualized and set up a pioneering Learning & Development Centre for the currency ecosystem at BRBNMPL, Mysuru, and played a key role in establishing the Currency Research and Development Centre at RBI.
Mr. Mohanty has been part of several RBI committees and Technical Advisory Groups. He has been a regular speaker and guest faculty at institutions such as NIBM, MANAGE, SYMBIOSIS, the Bangladesh Bank Training Academy,etc and has addressed national and international forums.
Outside his professional engagements, he is deeply committed to education for underprivileged children, serving as Chairman of Ek-Asha Trust and previously as founding President of Blossoms Education Society. He is passionate about mentoring and coaching of young talents , creative writing, environmental causes, animal protection etc. He enjoys teaching schoolchildren whenever possible.