�HCLFoundation, which forwards the corporate social responsibility agenda of Global Technology Company HCLTech in India, today announced the winners of the 2025 edition of HCLTech grant.

HCLTech grants support Indian non-governmental organizations (NGOs), which bring transformative changes in education, healthcare and environment. This year, HCLTech grant received more than 13,925 registrations from NGOs across India. Three winning NGOs in each category were given a grant of ₹ 5 crore (~ $ 580,700) for their impressive projects and six runners -up NGOs in each category were awarded ₹ 25 lakh (~ $ 29,000).

To date, HCLFoundation has awarded ₹ 152.8 crore (~ $ 18.4 million) through HCLTech grant initiative to pursue high influence projects. In its 10th edition, the HCLTECH grant has supported 59 projects in 142 districts of 22 states and two union territories.

The winners of the 10th edition of HCLTECH grant are NGOs:

Environment: Lokmata Rani Rashoni Mission for her project “Conservation of biodiversity for life and livelihood”, which covers 40 villages in South and North 24 Parganas districts in West Bengal, promotes sustainable agriculture, supports local livelihood and empowering women.

Health: For Gurupriya Vision Research Foundation for his project “Vision on Wheels”, which focuses on ending blindness in childhood due to retinopathy of prematurerity (ROP) in more than 10,000 villages in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.

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Education: For their “Touch Learn and Shine” project, which focuses on enabling education inclusion through touch resources in more than 38,400 villages across the country.

Six runners -up are NGOs:

Environment: Life Education and Development Assistance (Leads) and Village Gaurav Pratishthan

Health: Pro Rural and Pallium India Trust

Education: 17000 feet Foundation and Youth India Trust

“NGOs play an important role in bringing changes at the ground level, meeting the needs of disadvantaged communities and promoting sustainable development. Their dedication and tireless efforts help in changing life, creating opportunities and creating flexible society. In HCLFoundation, we get the ability to support these notable organizations, empower them to expand our impacts and bring permanent changes. We are committed to strengthening the ability of NGOs to promote innovative solutions and give meaningful and measureable results, ”said Ms. Robin Abrams, Chairman, HCLTech Grant Jury (India and America) and former board member, HCLTech.

Other prestigious members of the jury, HCLTech President Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Company Managing partner Pallavi Shroff, former Director of Indian Institute of Public Administration and former Human Resource Development Secretary B.S. Baswan was involved; Dr. Richard Larvier, Sanskrit scholar and the Field Museum, Emeritus President of Chicago and Suresh Narayanan, Chairman and Managing Director of Nestle India Limited.

“This year is the 10th version of HCLTech Grant, a milestone that displays the effective work of NGOs that make significant changes at the ground level. We are proud to support these organizations as they bring permanent changes in the deprived, remote areas. Each winner NGOs are the scalable and replication model of the NGO change. CSR and HCLTech underlines the leadership of nation building, “said Dr. Nidhi Pundir, SVP, Global CSR, HCLTech and Director, HCLFoundation.

HCLTech grant-supported projects have carried forward significant development by removing 31,306 tonnes of waste from landfills, facilitating 23,703 institutional delivery and benefiting 39,286 individuals through integrated child development scheme. This initiative has rejuvenated 245 water bodies and treated about 128,102 hectares of land in indirect methods. It has reduced carbon emissions by 67,095 tonnes (Co₂ equivalent), permanently managed or recycled 2,722 tonnes of waste and trained 74,183 women farmers in regenerative agriculture. In addition, 177,080 plants have been planted under various grant-funded programs.