Spring Board for Voluntary Action by N.R.Is, Philanthropists, Corporates
Philanthropic effort for giving back to the society is an innate quality of every
human being. Numerous personalities, who have grown to the “zenith” of their career/life
and made enough of wealth for their family, have a burning urge to contribute to
the “Society” because of which they have become so great in their lives, by taking
up programmes/activities of helping their villages, creating infrastructure for
the development of the rural society. Such successful people who have settled down
either within the country or abroad have been taking up philanthropic activities
across the country. The Indian Society is grateful to their services and on their
behalf National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayat Raj (NIRDPR) express
their gratitude for all those great personalities who have been making substantial
contribution for the development of India with a special focus on rural society
development through their multifarious philanthropic approaches.
Many a times they do not find right platform for their contributions or they get
bogged down with procedures and get vexed up. In such cases their investment is
getting wasted as the critical requirements of the village / society get missed
out. Their effort and investment at times become duplication with the ongoing government
initiatives. Owing to the above reasons the complementary impact of their investment
due to absence of convergence with the ongoing government initiatives at various
levels is not adequately felt at grass-root level.
NIRDPR being an apex Institution for coordinating various capacity building and
training activities related to rural development, skill improvement, rural infrastructure
creation etc. wishes to become a platform for all voluntary / philanthropic effort
of the well- meaning personalities from within India and abroad. NIRDPR invests
itself to assist these great personalities or organisations to become their stepping
stone for effective contribution through their philanthropic activities. We also
like to take part jointly in their activities, wherever it is necessary to create
bigger impact. NIRDPR also intends to assist the philanthropists in evolving a “bottom
up decentralised planned development” so as to funnel their resources and effort
to fill the critical gaps so that the overall impact in terms of the development
of rural landscape will be multiplied.
NIRDPR would like to make this platform available through the “Centre for Corporate
Social Responsibility, Public Private Partnership & People’s Action (CSR, PPP &
PA)”, to all NRIs/Philanthropists, Corporates etc.
We welcome you to contact / connect with NIRDPR through Dr.Murugesan, Professor
& Head of Centre for CSR, PPP & PA at email: csr.nird@gmail.com, (Mobile) 8500085008,
Phone: 24008445.