Wednesday 8 April 2015

Rural Development Programmes in India

“India lives in villages” a true line quoted by Mahatma Gandhi because even today more than 60% of Indians lives in the rural area. The people residing in rural areas deprived of comfort and convenience of urban areas like modern amenities, easy transportation, power supply, well directed education system, fully fledged employment opportunities, compatible health services and many more. The economic development of the country is directly correlated with rural development because the majority of the population lives there.

DLF Foundation is prevailing social and economic activities crafted to improve the standard of living in rural areas of India. These Rural Development Programme is designed with a motive to enhance livelihood, alleviating poverty, delivering training and education programmes, conducting public health camps etc.

DLF has originated several rural development programmes specified as below:

Swachh City Campaign

Skill Development Programme

Talent Nurturing Programme

Village Cluster Development Programme


Village Cluster Development Programme is specifically designed for rural areas where every cluster is allotted one primary health care centre, Inoculation, Fumigation, Eye camps and mulch-specialty health camps are organized periodically, scholarship programmes for meritorious students, rural mobile library to develop reading habits and making books available to rural children, availing employment opportunities to literate people. The program is implemented proficiently and executed flawlessly in rural underdeveloped areas.

Tuesday 7 April 2015

Human Resource Development in India

India is the second highest populated country in the world. And to utilize the most valuable resource that is its human power as a weapon, DLF Foundation has taken an initiative for development of Human resource by imparting basic skills and to make them self-reliant and autonomous individuals capable of surviving efficiently while contributing to economic growth of country.

The focus of the Foundation is on developing superlative citizens by enhancing their personal-professional skills, knowledge and capabilities. The foundation executes several training and educational programmes which empowers people to grow financially and increase the standard of living their by. Developing Human Resource ultimately results into nurturing families and society as a whole.

The foundation avails significant employment opportunities and dimensions to indigent people of the society. Here we run Employability Linked Vocational Training Centers under the name of DLF LIFE (Learning Initiative for Employment). This center enables underprivileged unemployed people to indulge themselves into vocational courses that certainly facilitate in being gainfully employed.

Human Resource Development India is an integrated process where physical, financial and social advancement is rendered with a view to empowers the society. The foundation is fostering Human resource development by executing many programmes like Skill Development Programme, Talent Nurturing Programme, Village Cluster Development Programme and Community Development Programme that facilitate to earn their livelihood and contribute in the growth of country’s economy.

Wednesday 4 February 2015

Bringing Million Dollar Smile with Skill Development Initiative by DLF

Skill a million is one of the major initiatives taken by DLF Foundation, to secure jobs for the lifetime. The initiative aims to prepare one million people to enhance their skills and face the upcoming challenges in the near future. This initiative started under rural development programme in 2011, to make India, a self-sufficient nation.

The investment of Rs 200 crores aims to establish 250 skill-training centers, under skill a million programmes. The foundation has already set up 17 training centers in Delhi, U.P., Haryana, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Uttrakhand. These training centers aim to enhance the skills in order to approach the leading industries in a reformed way.

The efforts are remarkable till now, as these training centers have been able to generate employment for many trainees in top organizations. It has provided a platform to develop skills and enable them to be professionally well equipped. Hence, providing vocational training to the unfortunate has helped them to approach the industry in a more refined form.

While DLF Foundation has brought significant changes in the lives of economically weaker sections of the society, it hopes to benefit many more in the future. With a vision to develop a powerful workforce for the economy, it will able to serve a larger part of rural development in India.

Monday 2 February 2015

Launch of Cancer Awareness Campaign by DLF

DLF Foundation has been able to serve poor and the needy through various programmes and initiatives taken to promote rural healthcare in India. It has helped them stand in the forefront of bringing social transformation to the society.

Today India has almost crossed one crore population who are suffering from the dreadful cancer. And responding to the need of the hour, DLF has launched cancer awareness campaign in collaboration with World Healthal Trust. It aims at generating awareness of cancer prevention, early detection, and treatment assistance in the villages.

Lt Gen Rajender Singh, CEO of DLF Foundation elaborated on cancer awareness campaign. He said that the rate at which cancer is spreading in the country is alarming. Hence, there is a need to educate people about the importance of early screening to ensure healthy India.

DLF launched this campaign at one of the primary healthcare centers in a village Sakatpur, Gurgaon, India by organizing a cancer awareness camp. The camp welcomed more than 50 villagers who were active participants in this noble cause. The campaign is carried out to reduce the prevalence of common cancers including breast and cervical cancer. It aims to cover two village clusters in Gurgaon, over a time span of one year.

Thursday 29 January 2015

Entrepreneurship Development Helps Turn Wannabe Entrepreneurs to Real Entrepreneurs

Nobody likes to be under someone’s supervision and guidance throughout his/her life as an employee or executive. On the other hand, becoming your own boss is a choice that comes with many responsibilities and has its own share of difficulties which arise in the due course of time. This is exactly where entrepreneurship development comes in to play. Entrepreneurship development is the pre-defined process and practice of identifying the “entrepreneur” in you, evaluating the possibilities of entrepreneurship and business, laying out a strategic plan, searching for manpower and capital resources together for that plan, and enforcing them to start off the venture.

Easy it sounds but difficult it is to start and run a business. Most of the businesses have fallen prey to the inability of the novice businessmen due to lack of knowledge about the market trends, business skills, customers, marketing strategy and more. Even you have a fortune to spend on starting up a venture but if you lack the required skills, abilities and knowledge, it will not take more than a month to sink it like Titanic. Through this article, we cast some light on the necessity of entrepreneurship development, community development programme, and the DLF Foundation, a non-profit organization from the courtesy of DLF Limited, the real estate giant in India.

Other than entrepreneurship development, community development programme is the need pushed for the betterment of the several miscellaneous communities and societies. Through community development programmes, the lags and shortcoming the education field, welfare of labourers, and healthcare among other fields can be addressed easily to help become wannabes good and hardworking, result-oriented entrepreneurs who through their capabilities bring contemporary changes to the societies and their people to raise their standard of living and help them become skilled and equipped manpower.

The role of DLF Foundation in shaping the future of these communities, societies and their people is undeniably great. The organization has been designing and executing such programmes at their levels to urban and rural people technically skilled manpower not just across a region but across the entire world. If you are one of those who are looking forward to become a venturist, then this foundation is the right choice for you and all those who believe in fulfilling their dreams.