Chhimek Laghubitta Bittiya Sanstha Ltd. (CLBSL)is a leading micro-finance institution providing access to finance to more than 300,000 poor and marginalized women members in 63 districts through 126 branches across Nepal. Incorporated in December 2001, CLBSL received micro-finance banking license from the Nepal Rastra Bank, Central Bank of Nepal, in January 2002. CLBSL is an offshoot of the micro-finance operation implemented since the ‘90s by Neighborhood Society Service Centre (NSSC), a national level NGO, in the central Terai districts of Mahottari and Chitwan in central Nepal.