Gautam Budh Nagar administration, HCL tie up for Noida's development

In order to work towards the betterment of Gautam Budh Nagar, the district administration has signed three Memorandums of Understanding with HCL Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of HCL.

The three MoUs are signed for providing a long-term of strengthing public health facilities, gender equity and self effiency and to provide early childhood care and devolopment (ECCD).

BN Singh, the district magistrate of Gautam Budh Nagar said, "Our aim is to work for some positive development in Noida. We keep on working on various things for the development of Noida. This unique partnership with HCL Foundation shall help in improving the quality of education, the quality of services delivery in Anganwadi Centres and Gender Equity in the district," said Singh.

According to Nidhi Pundhir, Director, CSR and Head, HCL Foundation, they are implementing community-based health intervention in Noida, Gautam Budh Nagar under HCL Uday.

" The programme aims towards working with health systems such as the primary health centres and community health centres to improve client outreach for uptake of the services. We have also initiated My Worth Program, a comprehensive programme to enhance gender equity and self-efficacy of students by providing Structured curriculum to help them," said Pundir.

She further said that through interventions across early, primary, secondary, adult, digital, sports and civic education, HCL Foundation fosters human resource development."Our programmes address all stages of life, including imparting soft skills that are needed for better quality of life."

Noida MLA Pankaj Singh said, "It's a small step but it will surely have a bigger impact. Administration and HCL have started this thing. I don't know how things use to work in other districts with CSR. The district magistrate has decided that work done by any corporate should be done in a structured form. The work on schools has been started by HCL then many corporates joined in and I'm glad to say that, if I talk about only Noida Constituency all the 84 schools are under corporates or administration."