INDIA - March 7 2006, Anantpur village, Mirzapur district, Uttar-Pradesh. A CASHPOR Micro Credit employee, Basant (man in foreground) conducts a formal group pledge to adhere to the loan rules on his weekly visit to a remote village where a group of clients qualified for micro loans. The woman to Basant's left is Subnam, his supervisor (Manager of the Rajatalad branch office) on a once or twice yearly control visit.