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NGOS IMPACTING ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH AND ”
The
Fifth Estate
EDUCATION AND TRANSFORMING RURAL INDIA
With The Fifth Estate, HCL Grant has initiated what will possibly be the first ever sector-wide,
comprehensive compendium of the most credible NGOs striving towards the empowerment
of rural India. Volume 1 of the compendium headlines the shortlisted NGOs from 2016
and 2017 in each category. This will be disseminated across various networks, providing
unprecedented visibility to the NGOs. India’s range of issues is so multifarious, its peoples so
diverse, that the search for HCL Grant recipient cannot be based on the NGO’s project idea,
however innovative. The process is designed to hone in on those organizations which have
the capacity to implement, replicate or scale up their ideas in the field, and make mighty
changes to transform and enrich India’s villages. Abiding by our core DNA: sustained nation
building, from the ground up
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