NITI Aayog signs SoI with Lupin Foundation for collaborating in aspirational districts

New Delhi: A Statement of Intent (SoI) was signed today between NITI Aayog and Lupin Foundation to collaborate in Aspirational Districts Programme. The SoI was signed by Yaduvendra Mathur, Additional Secretary, NITI Aayog and Sita Ram Gupta, Executive Director, Lupin Foundation.

For this programme, the NITI Aayog and Lupin Foundation are collaborating to improve indicators in skill development, health & nutrition, education, water resources and agriculture and financial inclusion and basic infrastructure in Aspirational Districts of India.

As per the terms of the SoI, Lupin Foundation, with the NITI Aayog, will work in three states – Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan – to facilitate the creation of an ideal template to develop moral leadership, technological viability and economic strength across three districts in these states as part of Phase I of the cooperation.

Phase I of this cooperation with NITI Aayog will focus on the districts of Dholpur in Rajasthan, Nandurbar in Maharashtra and Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh, and help develop a comprehensive district-level action plan with integrates various initiatives and interventions.

Lupin Foundation will work towards three main pillars of ensuring integrated developmental policy in the model states – social development, which will include initiatives for health, education and women empowerment; economic empowerment, focusing interventions in spheres of agriculture, animal husbandry and skill enhancement; and infrastructure development, where Lupin will loop to establish durable infra in the form of internal roads, school buildings and water resources.