Rural Infrastructure Development

News Update/Press Release New Delhi, India, 29 June 2021: Frontier Markets, HESA and 1Bridge has announced the formation of a coalition to address the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic in the rural sector. With a collective of 30 years of experience in rural India, the coalition aims to raise $8mn to ensure employment, awareness and accessibility to 1 million rural households in 6,000 villages across 4 states in India. The mission of the coalition is to support rural families to become Covid resilient, while contributing to job creation and economic resilience in rural India. The Rural Access Coalition for COVID-19 Resilience is composed of rural supply chain companies, grassroots organizations and ecosystem enablers in a joint coalition effort to uplift

News Update /Press Release India, 18 June, 2021:HCL Grant has announced Edition VII for recognizing the NGOs Transforming Rural India. The application portal is now live and last date for accepting online applications is June 17, 2021.  Started in 2015, the HCL Grant is a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) commitment by HCL, through HCL Foundation, the CSR arm of HCL Technologies, to strengthen and empower NGOs, engage with them, as well as recognize them for their path-breaking work. HCL Foundation has now announced edition VII of HCL Grant. HCL Grant awards the winning NGOs in each of the categories of Environment, Health and Education, a grant of ₹ 5 Crore for a 3-5 years project. The HCL Grant rewards the

News Update/Press Release India, June 18, 2021: Greaves Cotton, is one of the leading ,diversified and well known engineering companies in India. The company holds history of success, relationships, and strong commitments. The zeal to help the under privileged and serve the society for the sustainable development has brought the company to unmatchable heights. The Company constantly works towards inclusive growth and the betterment of society and the environment. Over a period of time, Greaves has initiated several CSR projects to bring positive impact both at the employee level and benefit society. As a responsible corporate citizen, to bring a meaningful difference in the lives of people- Greaves has been working closely with civil society organizations and government to achieve

News Update/ Press Release 17 June, 2021, New Delhi: The/Nudge Foundation  announced that it has received a grant from American philanthropist and novelist MacKenzie Scott and husband Dan Jewett, in recognition of their work against social and economic inequities in India. The/Nudge has been selected by MacKenzie after scrutinizing various aspects of research and impact evaluation as one among the world’s 286 high-impact organizations. A total of $2.7B was donated by MacKenzie to the chosen nonprofits, each receiving a significant donation as a “signal of trust and encouragement”, remarked MacKenzie. At the moment the organisation is working towards stabilizing its livelihood  and skill development orientation programmes throughout PAN India with immense emphasis on rural areas promoting social entrepreneurship and ambitious

News Update/Press Release Mumbai, June 14, 2021: Around 58,887 rural entrepreneurs under Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP), a sub-scheme of Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihood Mission (DAY-NRLM), Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of India have been trained by Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII) (EDII is designated as National Resource Organisation(NRO) for implementation of non-farm projects and currently associated with 15 State Rural Livelihood Mission (SRLM)) in multiple employment generating activities amid this pandemic. The objective of this programme is to help these micro-entrepreneurs and their family members to setup small enterprises in rural areas under non-farm sector. In all 75 blocks, across 15 states India are being covered under the programme whose main objective is to promote micro entrepreneurs and

News Update/ Press Release April 2021, India: CBM India with the support of Fullerton India has equipped two more vision centres in Haryana and Karnataka in their fight to reduce avoidable blindness and vision impairment in rural India. These would be the first primary screening facilities initiated by RIO Rohtak and RIO Bangalore at primary health centres in rural districts. The inclusive vision centres situated in these rural areas will cater to the most vulnerable communities, including people with disabilities. These vision centres will be fully equipped with screening equipment and will be manned by a trained optometrist. The centre will also engage a community mobilizer, who would be responsible for building awareness and making the community member’s testing experience easy and

CSR NEWS Bengaluru, April 9, 2021: Embassy Services Pvt. Ltd. has partnered with the Bettahalasuru Panchayat to build a Dry and Wet Waste Collection Centre benefitting 18 villages, under EcoGram, their flagship Environment initiative. The project broke ground today, with a Bhoomi Puja held in the presence of Krishna Byre Gowda, MLA – Byatarayanapura, Aditya Virwani, COO – Embassy Group, Pradeep Lala, CEO & Managing Director – Embassy Services, Myriam Shankar, Managing Trustee – The Anonymous Indian Charitable Trust (TAICT) and Panchayat leaders. Initiated in 2016, EcoGram is a sustainable CSR project of Embassy in partnership with TAICT, which jointly aims to create an ecologically sound replicable model Gram Panchayat to propagate sustainable waste, water and soil management. With current operations spread across eight villages in

News Update/ Press Release 20 March, 2021:The DS Group’s CSR vision is, “To build sustainable communities by leveraging resources and network”. Corporate Social responsibility is an intrinsic part of the DS Group’s ethos. Guided by a strong social conscience, the Group works on projects with focus on critical areas such as Water Conservation, Livelihood Enhancement, Education, Health Care and other relevant programs. With a core purpose of long term and sustainable impact, the CSR initiatives are aimed to bring about a positive change in the communities. ‘Water’ is the key focus area. The Group has been working on a wide range of Water Conservation programs to address the shortage of water and improve the water security in areas, which have

PRESS RELEASE New Delhi, 22nd Feb, 2021: Vedanta Limited has been conferred with the “CSR Shining Star Award” under the category of Child Development for Nand Ghar, Vedanta Group’s flagship corporate social responsibility project. The recognition was given by Honorable Governor of Maharashtra, Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari in an award ceremony held at the Raj Bhavan, Mumbai on 20th February 2021.The award recognizes Vedanta’s efforts towards the holistic development and growth of children contributing towards building a stronger and healthier nation. Speaking on receiving the award, Vedanta Director, Ms. Priya Agarwal said: “I am honored as well as humbled to receive the award for our Nand Ghars that are transforming the lives of rural women and children across the country. We are

PRESS RELEASE Bangalore, 21, December 2020 – Lenovo, the global technology leader has collaborated with Meghshala Trust, a not-for-profit,in order to promote education technology and to reinforce teacher training and value education systems across India. Just prior to COVID 19, Meghshala signed an MoU with the Department of Education Meghalaya to train 600 teachers from East Garo Hills and West Khasi Hills.  Through the COVID 19 lockdown measures, Megshala conducted orientations for District functionaries to provide an overview of the app and the training. Even though the corona virus delibrated social distancing and lockdown measures , Meghshala has seen greater than 18,000 app downloads. The app has concept-based student models and curriculum-aligned, self-guided lessons which is giving students never like before experience . Apart from that,