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HCLFOUNDATION SCALES HCLTECH GRANT INITIATIVE TO ACCELERATE WATER AND BIODIVERSITY STEWARDSHIP IN RURAL INDIA
Southern Mail Newspaper
|May 24, 2025
HCLFoundation, which drives the corporate social responsibility agenda of global technology company HCLTech in India, announced a 45% increase in the annual outlay to ₹24 crore for its flagship HCLTech Grant initiative that supports innovative rural development projects by Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) in India.
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Starting FY26, the HCLTech Grant will be open to applications for promising projects under the new Water category. The Environment category has been replaced with Biodiversity. The Education and Healthcare categories will continue as before.
Each winning NGO in these categories will receive ₹5 crore for four-year projects, while eight runner-up NGOs will get ₹50 lakh for two-year projects. The total grant for the FY26 edition will be ₹24 crore vs ₹16.5 crores in FY25.
This story is from the May 24, 2025 edition of Southern Mail Newspaper.
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