Summary:
Reliance Foundation (RF), a Corporate Social Responsibility wing of Reliance Industries Limited, plans to replicate and scale up its rural transformation initiatives across the country. The incomes of communities in the Telugu States where they worked went up from ?30,000 to ?80,000 and from ?50,000 to ?1 lakh, they claimed. The rural transformation wing took up activities four years ago but gradually forged partnerships with like-minded organisations, including government departments and universities, they said. The Foundation has been focusing on rural transformation, health, education, sports for development, disaster response, arts, culture and heritage and urban renewal in 15 States across the country including the two Telugu States. Mr.
Jagannatha Kumar, CEO of RF and Mr.
Vamsee Krishna Jasti, head of the Rural Transformation division of the foundation, said here on Thursday so far they had reached 8.5 lakh people in the two Telugu States through various projects..