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Sehgal Foundation engages in strategic partnerships to build strong synergies and collaborate with organizations that help make a greater impact in the lives of rural people. Sehgal Foundation continues to strengthen its knowledge base and expand village interventions by working with government, nonprofits, academia, and corporate organizations.

We thank all individual donors for their contributions toward various rural development projects. Every partner ensures value.

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Sehgal Foundation in the US, is a private 501(c)(3) charitable organization based in Des Moines, Iowa, that collaborates with philanthropic partners to support rural development work by S M Sehgal Foundation in India.

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Krishi Jyoti
This project aims to enhance farm productivity and empower farmers in the community to lead more secure and prosperous lives. A key component is promoting water conservation in villages and supporting the development of infrastructures in villages to conserve water. The project also promotes education of children in these remote villages by offering them a healthy learning environment which entails, at a minimum, the provision of potable water, decent sanitary facilities, and a safe school building.
Jaldhara
This project promotes integrated water management for improved livelihoods and food security. The project supports villagers in the building of rainwater harvesting structures to collect, store, and recharge groundwater, and creates infrastructures to manage household wastewater. The project trains farmers on the application of scientific knowledge in farming practices and water-efficient irrigation techniques in agriculture.
Gram Unnati
Project Gram Unnati aims to benefit smallholder farmers of Jodhpur, Pali, and Barmer districts of Rajasthan by improving crop productivity through promotion of better agronomic practices, conserving water through promotion of water saving irrigation practices and rainwater harvesting, and build capacities of farmers through exposure visits and training sessions.
Project Vriddhi
Project Vriddhi adopts an integrated approach focusing on various aspects of rural well-being. This includes conserving and harvesting water, improving farm livelihoods, improving delivery of public services, particularly related to education, nutrition, health and sanitation, among others. The project is aimed at improving the livelihoods of 1,500 people in the village of Rohira in Nuh district, Haryana.
Integrated Village Development
Integrated Village Development project titled Project Parivartan aims to improve the lives of rural communities in areas of natural resource management, clean energy, health and hygiene, life skills, agriculture livelihoods, and rural infrastructure. The project goal is to create positive change in the lives of villagers including adolescent girls, young women and mothers, school-going and dropout children, farmers, and the elderly in districts Nuh, Rewari, and Mahendrgarh, Haryana.
Gram Uday and Krishi Samriddhi
These projects aim to empower rural citizens to play a leading role in the communities and build knowledge and skills of farmers to make agriculture and allied activities more remunerative. They provide information about government programs and services through a toll-free number, builds capacities of villagers to engage effectively with panchayats (village councils) and village-level institutions for improving access to government programs. Farmers are given exposure on agriculture management practices, use of new technology, and are encouraged to adopt allied agricultural activities such as horticulture and livestock development.
Provide a healthy and safe learning environment to school children
This project involves the renovation of physical infrastructures and deteriorated government school buildings in a village. This includes repairing the existing structural weaknesses of buildings, creating new and safer infrastructures, and providing an environment that is conducive to better learning. This intervention is designed to retain and increase school attendance and improve students’ academic performance.
Bridging the Internet literacy gap and promoting life skills
This project trains students from government schools in villages on the workings of digital devices such as tablets and laptops with an eventual focus on Internet literacy, thus connecting them with the outside world. The project further focuses on the development of social and emotional skills, knowledge about health and sanitation as well as government programs, schemes, and rights.
Kaushal Krishak
This project aims to offer holistic solution to minimize farmer’s risk, decrease cultivation cost and increase farm income, particularly for smallholder farmers. The project provides advisory and on-site demonstration services to farmers to promote minimal or no tillage in wheat and paddy, improve yields and quality, and reduce cost of inputs. A mobile agri clinic has been established as part of this project to provide diagnostics and advisory services to the farmers.
Water Conservation Projects in Rajasthan, Haryana, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
Sehgal Foundation has been working with DCB Bank since 2017 to implement water conservation projects for achieving SDG goal 6 and 17. So far, the partnership has benefitted over 10,000 villagers across 4 states of Rajasthan, Haryana, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, harvesting over 300 million (30 crores) litres of water.

Additionally, Project Jal Vikas in Madhya Pradesh will create a water storage capacity of 32 million litres benefiting the community and livestock, and achieving water security in the project villages.
Installation of pressurized recharge wells for creating freshwater pockets
This project harvests rainwater from school rooftops and through pressurized recharge wells, creates freshwater pockets in saline groundwater areas to makes water available for drinking and cooking purposes.
Project Gram Utkarsh
Project Gram Utkarsh, in villages of Karchhana tehsil in Allahabad district, Uttar Pradesh emphasizes on building capacities of rural communities to lead their own development. Through an integrated approach, the project focuses on aspects crucial to well-being of rural lives and improving delivery of public services, particularly related to education, health and sanitation and farmer’s prosperity.
Rainwater-based community-managed sustainable solutions
This project involves the creation of community-managed water management models to fulfill the domestic water demands of select water-scarce villages.
Augmenting Productivity of Lead crops
This project carried out in five villages of Nagina block of Mewat District of Haryana aims to augment productivity of lead crops—wheat and mustard. The major interventions include dairy development, animal nutrition management, vaccinations, insurance, deworming, integrated crop nutrient management, soil testing, composting techniques, field days, farmers’ training, bank linkages, and exposure visits.
Jaagruk Mahila-Swasthya Parivar
Project Jaagruk Mahila-Swasthya Parivar aims to improve awareness amongst women on preventive and remedial healthcare, improve awareness on and access to safe drinking water, and increase compliance of government health services in Samastipur district, Bihar.
Gram Utthaan, Adarsh Panchayat Bhandari and Humari Paathshaala
PTC Foundation Trust is supporting three projects in Bihar. Project Gram Utthaan aims for a sustainable and inclusive growth across five villages of Muzaffarpur district in Bihar. The project provides holistic solutions to farm families which includes use of solar energy; mechanization of farming practices; balanced nutrition and crop protection; and entrepreneurship for better livelihoods. Project Aadarsh Panchayat Bhandari, in three villages of Bhandari Panchayat in Sitamarhi district of Bihar, rests on the belief that knowledge about better agronomic practices, and government programs and entitlements will empower communities to lead their own development to achieve a positive social, economic and environmental change. Further, through Project Humari Paathshaala, PTC Foundation Trust has adopted two government schools in Bhandari Panchayat to transform them into a secure, healthy, fun and stimulating spaces.
Unnat Krishi
This project is aimed at making semi-medium holding farmers competent in areas of soil nutrient management and high-yielding crop varieties through technical handholding, information dissemination, and liaising with state agricultural departments.
Check dam construction
As part of this project, a check dam of 185 m in length and 2.4 m in height has been constructed at Sukha Khola in Rawli village on the Haryana and Rajasthan border to conserve and harvest rainwater runoff from the nearby Aravalli hills. In addition, four gabions and nallah bunds have been constructed, and 98 contour trenches have been dug on the upstream side of the check dam to manage rainwater runoff and increase the percolation rate.
Creating employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for women in India
This project focuses on assessing the needs and aspirations of women and girls in terms of skill development. Subsequently, the project team encourages these girls and women to participate in skill training programs organized by UNDP.
Samridhi
Project Samridhi engages with farmers in Behror, Rajasthan, to develop water resilience within the community through an integrated approach which includes construction of water harvesting structures for surface water storage and ground water recharge. Additionally, it aims to mainstream water-efficient agriculture through promotion of micro-sprinkler systems. The project also promotes digital literacy and life skills education for youth, and capacity building of community members towards their village’s growth and development.
UDYAMI KRISHAK
Project Udhyami Krishak improves crop productivity of small and marginal farmers to sustain their livelihoods and improve their levels of food security
through capacity building with demonstrations of various crop specific
practices and water-saving irrigation practices.
MERI PAATHSHAALA
Meri Paathshaala transforms the lives of schoolchildren by upgrading school infrastructure, providing a library, imparting digital literacy training and life skills education, and providing other critical facilities to create a secure, healthy, and stimulating learning environment.
SAMARTH VITYA VANI
The project bridges the financial literacy awareness gap in rural areas by providing community radio programming on financial services and schemes.
Guru Krupa Foundation Inc
Since 2007, the Guru Krupa Foundation (GKF), a private foundation based in NY, has been funding a broad range of social, educational and religious/cultural charitable causes across India and the US. The foundation’s holistic approach to charitable giving is based on the premise that equal opportunity and access must be provided to every individual; the pursuit of knowledge must never end and the acquisition of cultural knowledge must be preserved.
BMW INDIA FOUNDATION
Project Water for Future aims at installations of rainwater harvesting systems on the rooftops of government schools in Nuh and Gurugram districts to improve access to drinking water for children and provide storage capacity such that the schools’ annual water needs will be catered to.
Pragati
Project Pragati aims to transform village Chuni Kalan [located in Bassi Pathana block, Fatehgarh Sahib district, Punjab] into an exemplary village. The project builds capacities of rural communities to lead their own development. It adopts an integrated approach, focusing on aspects crucial to the wellbeing of rural lives, including development of rain water harvesting structures to conserve rain water and recharge the groundwater table, development of soak wells for maintaining sanitation, waste water disposal, adopting better farm practices to tackle problems associated with stubble burning; among others.
Water Conservation
Project Water Conservation in Shahjahanpur aims at conserving rainfall to recharge the groundwater table in villages of Shahjahanpur in Alwar district, Rajasthan. The project also promotes water saving irrigation practices and capacity building of community members to participate actively in their village’s development.
PNB Housing Ki Paathshaala and Project Jal Khushhali
In partnership with PNB Housing Finance’s CSR arm Pehel Foundation, Sehgal Foundation is executing two school transformation projects, 1) in Government Middle School in Atta, Nuh, Haryana and 2) Government Senior Secondary School in Khareda, Alwar, Rajasthan to provide schoolchildren access to better sanitation facilities, and a conducive school environment that encourages physical and mental well-being and development of the children.

Additionally, the project, Jal Khushhali in Karauli, Rajasthan, is set to harvest 45 million liters of water for surface water storage and augment the groundwater recharge potential in the area by creating ponds and check dams.
Wal-Mart Foundation
The aim of the Project Bolstering Farmer Producer Organizations is to foster a more secure, prosperous, and dignified agriculture sector by creating opportunities for smallholder farmers, especially women producers through the promotion of sustainable and effective FPOs in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka. In the long term, our vision is for FPOs to be able to take on the initiatives under the grant supported by Wal-Mart Foundation and ultimately provide value-added services to their members.
School Transformation Project
S M Sehgal Foundation in partnership with Navisite is implementing a school transformation project in Government High School, Kurthala of Nuh district, Haryana. The project aims to provide schoolchildren access to better sanitation facilities, and a conducive school environment that encourages physical and mental well-being and development of the children.
Women Empowerment in Local Development
S M Sehgal Foundation together with Crossing Borders is implementing a project supported by CISU (Danish Civil Society in Development), on women empowerment in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. The project aims to create women leaders at the grassroots level through Women Leadership Schools.

These schools will bridge the information deficit women face and improve access of rural women to their government guaranteed rights and entitlement programs, both democratically and financially. In addition, the project will empower elected women leaders to facilitate and monitor compliance of these programs in their villages.
CAWST
CAWST is a Canadian non-profit organization that provides education, training and technical consulting in water, sanitation and hygiene to organizations that serve the poor in developing countries. CAWST is partnering with Sehgal Foundation as Knowledge Partner in the area of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH).
Water Conservation in Kherla, Gurugram
Project Water Conservation in Kherla, Gurugram aims at conserving water and protecting traditional water bodies to address surface water storage concerns, recharge the groundwater table and promote water use efficiency.
Sustainable Guar project
Ashland and the S M Sehgal Foundation are solving complex challenges in India and have begun a sustainable farming and education pilot project aimed at the improved productivity of guar, wheat, and mustard crops through the promotion of better agronomic practices and conservation of water through efficient irrigation practices. The program intends to transform 10 villages of Padampur and the Karanpur block of the Sriganganagar district in Rajasthan. Educational demonstrations and sustainable agriculture training for both men and women have been included. The farmer’s adoption of better agronomic practices during the pilot has proven to decrease the cost of cultivation and increase crop productivity, thereby enhancing the income of farming families in these villages. The program also furthers the empowerment of women in the region by building their capacities on improved agricultural practices and new farm technologies that increase crop yields, conserve water, improve soil fertility; the project also works towards improving the learning environment for schoolchildren and providing access to drinking water and better sanitation facilities.
LIC HFL HRIDAY Project
With the support of LIC Housing Finance Ltd., Sehgal Foundation is implementing Project Holistic Rural Initiative Development and Yield (HRIDAY) in five villages in Nuh district, Haryana with the aim of achieving holistic village development in areas of agriculture, health & sanitation, education, livelihood, and water management, among others. The main focus of the project is to train and equip farmers on sustainable agriculture practices, build the knowledge base of youth on digital and life skills awareness, recognize women’s role as primary caretakers of milch animals, and build their potential as entrepreneurs.

In addition, the project also focuses on creating awareness of the village community on the aspect of sanitation and hygiene, providing a healthy and learning environment to the infants/children by transforming Anganwadi Centers, and also enabling local participation by building capacities of communities to lead the development in their own village.

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