Fulfilling Aspirations. Transforming India...

Reliance Corporate Park, Ground Floor Project Office, 5 TTC Industrial Area,
Thane-Belapur Road, Ghansoli, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra-400701, India.
Email: contactus@reliancefoundation.org

Phone: +91 22 44770000

Website: www.reliancefoundation.org

OUR INSPIRATION
The Reliance growth story is intricately tied

enormous challenges it faces on the social

to Indias social and economic development.

development front.

I firmly believe that the purpose of any business

cannot be driven by profit alone. Each one of
us has to commit to building a better world.

Shri Mukesh D. Ambani

India has to find its unique solutions to the

Chairman & Managing Director

Reliance Industries Ltd.

LET US BUILD
AN INCLUSIVE INDIA
Reliance Foundation is the manifestation of an

power of education and pays utmost attention to

audacious dream: to inspire and facilitate

the health of its citizens; and an India that celebrates

transformative change and build an inclusive India -

its values, culture and traditions, while preserving

an India that empowers its youth to harness their

its heritage.

potential; an India that builds bridges between its

rural hinterland and the urban economy; an India
that provides a better quality of life for all in the
urban areas; an India that leverages the phenomenal

Smt. Nita M. Ambani

Chairperson
Reliance Foundation

THE LAND OF
A BILLION DREAMS
India is a nation of a billion dreams, a billion

Reliance Foundation directly engages with

aspirations and above all great opportunities.

communities through a team of trained

To turn these dreams into reality and help transform

professionals in five core areas of Rural

the lives of Indias underprivileged, Reliance Foundation

Transformation, Education, Health, Urban

is working with communities across various states.

Renewal and Arts, Culture & Heritage.

RURAL
TRANSFORMATION
Reliance Foundation helps improve livelihood

RF-BIJ helps marginal farmers build self-reliant

opportunities by empowering rural communities

institutions, follow sustainable agricultural

through organisational and technology-based

practices and empower communities.

interventions through its Bharat-India Jodo (RFBIJ) and Information Services (RF-IS) initiatives.

Reliance Foundation-BIJ

Institution Building
The team helps create Village Farmers Associations
(VFAs) and Producer Companies (PCs). While the

RF-BIJ is working towards bridging the developmental

VFAs are collectives of small and marginal farmers

gap between rural Bharat and urban India by

supporting small and marginal farmers along the
value chain through input provision, technical, post-

in a village to help transform semi-productive or

uncultivated farm lands into productive assets, the

harvest and marketing support. The programme

PCs serve as interfaces to optimise returns from

is spread across 16 agro-ecological zones of India.

their farm produce.

Sustainable Agricultural Practices

RF-BIJ helps address food security for rural
households. It also helps create sustainable
livelihoods and protects the environment through
initiatives such as Dharti Farms, Rain Water
Harvesting, Seed Banks, Nurseries, Bio Gas and
Reliance Nutrition Gardens.

Reliance Nutrition Gardens (RNGs) are low cost,

organic and scientifically developed kitchen garden
models that use a multi-tier cropping system to
produce a variety of vegetables. RNGs enhance the
nutritional intake of rural households.

Rain water harvesting: The initiative helps

marginal farmers conserve water through various

Dharti farms help de-risk marginal farmers by

soil and moisture conservation measures,

enhancing farm land productivity by deploying

including construction of mini-dams and other

mixed cropping and enhance soil fertility.

useful structures.

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institutions, extension departments, individual

Services (RF-IS)

experts, policy makers, innovative practitioners,

RF - IS uses various communication and

technological channels to provide information

traders and financial institutions.

Apart from direct interventions, RF-IS provides

relating to rural development, livelihood security

mobile-based vernacular audio/text advisories;

issues and preventive health to rural population,

live phone-in-programmes; audio conferencing

as a neutral service provider. The team delivers

between two or multiple locations; cable

timely, context-specific advisories in

TV-based live phone-in-programmes; wireless-

local

languages in a sustained manner.

based public address system; SMS - based

RF-IS collects information on rural community

electronic display boards; posters; and makes

needs and builds value-added content through

announcements through mobile units and

partnerships with universities, research

fortnightly vernacular journals.

EDUCATION
Reliance Foundation uses multi - pronged

country. RF complements these initiatives with

initiatives to provide access to quality primary

its Dhirubhai Ambani Undergraduate

and secondary education to thousands of students

Scholarships, including many for differently

through a network of schools across the

abled students.

HEALTH
To alleviate health-related challenges arising from

cloud-based software. These also have biometric

the lack of preventive and primary care, RFs

recording facilities to identify patients to ensure

Health Outreach Programme reaches out to the

seamless continuity of care.

vulnerable sections of society, creates awareness of

RF has launched a Menstrual Hygiene Programme

common health problems and offers remedial

to address low awareness levels on menstrual

measures to help reduce the load on tertiary care.

hygiene and makes affordable sanitary napkins

RFs dedicated team targets below-poverty-line

easily accessible to women in villages.

(BPL) families and goes to the catchment areas to

enrol them for basic and preventive care. RFs fullyequipped Mobile Medical Units (MMUs) and Static
Medical Units (SMUs) provide free medical services
and use state-of-the-art technology, including

Reliance Foundation Drishti

Reliance Foundations Drishti programme is an
initiative to improve the quality of life of the
visually-impaired and has supported thousands of
cornea transplants across India. RF also launched
a registered, national fortnightly Hindi newspaper
in braille and circulates it free of cost to the visually
impaired. The Foundation also publishes a braille
calendar in Hindi.

Sir H N Reliance Foundation Hospital

& Research Centre
Reliance Foundation is transforming Sir H N
Reliance Foundation Hospital & Research Centre
into a state-of-the-art facility. The 1-million square
feet area hospital will have the latest of clinical

technology across core specialties, as well as

imaging and diagnostics. The new hospital is being
built to deliver world-class tertiary health care.

URBAN RENEWAL
To make Indias rapidly growing urban areas

positive changes in some of Indias largest cities.

amenable to higher quality of life for all, including

RF is partnering with various municipal bodies to

for those in low - income groups, Reliance

undertake development efforts in urban planning,

Foundation is working on initiatives that engineer

public spaces, environment and security of citizens.

ARTS, CULTURE
& HERITAGE
Reliance Foundation is re-imagining ways to
protect and promote Indias priceless heritage to
not only sustain but also make art and culture
relevant to the younger generation.
To this end, RF supports legendary artists in many
of their creative endeavours, besides supporting
internationally acclaimed exhibitions for
educational purposes.

DISASTER RESPONSE
Reliance Foundation has in-built skills, such

to make available general and specialised medical

as healthcare and technological expertise, as

support. RFs rehabilitation work involved building

well as the experience of closely working with

livelihood opportunities for the affected families,

the communities, to ably reach out to the needy

rebuilding educational institutions and constructing

in the unforeseen event of natural disasters.

new homes for the homeless.

Resultantly, RF can quickly mobilize relief and

rehabilitation operations.
RF team was among the first to provide relief to
the people affected by disastrous floods in
Uttarakhand in June 2013, by reaching the
unreached areas against all odds. RF team members
were directly engaged in relief work round-the-clock

Our Footprint
Project Locations of Reliance Foundation

RF Farm
Research Centre