Vedanta chairman Anil Agarwal to set up 500 Nand Ghars in Uttar Pradesh

MUMBAI: Vedanta’s Anil Agarwal Foundation has joined hands with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to set up 500 Nand Ghars in Uttar Pradesh over the next 12 months, as a part of the company’s corporate social responsibility initiative.

“We would be jointly developing 500 Nand Ghars in UP with focus on improving health and nutritional outcomes for women and children,” said Vedanta’s Chairman Anil Agarwal in a media statement on Monday.

Nand Ghar is a joint collaboration with the Ministry of Women & Child Development, which aims to transform the entire landscape of the anganwadi ecosystem with a focus on nutrition, Agarwal added.


According to the ministry for Women & Child Development, “The partnership of BMGF and Anil Agarwal Foundation to ameliorate malnutrition will surely have a lasting impact and further strengthen Honourable PM Narendra Modi’s vision of Suposhit Bharat.”

Nand Ghar is an initiative of the Anil Agarwal Foundation which began in 2015 and is currently operating in seven states and plans to roll out the social impact project in Bihar. Vedanta Nand Ghar, which is supported by MoWCD.

The company said that the new centers will come up in the districts of Amethi and Varanasi in the first phase of this partnership.

Nand Ghar project and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will jointly fund the expansion program in a 50:50 ratio.

With the current rollout of over 1700 centers, the project is now spread across 7 states Rajasthan, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh.