LIVESBUILDING

3 EVENT OF THE YEAR

4 DLF CARES - TALENT NURTURING

PROGRAMME

5 SKILL DEVELOPMENT

6 VILLAGE CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT

8 EDUCATION

10 GURGAON RENEWAL MISSION

12 OTHER INITIATIVES

Glimpses of 2012

EDITORIAL

ContentsFrom the Editor's Desk

DLF Foundation has been actively engaged in

empowering communities and creating

opportunities for the underprivileged in areas of

education, training and health care. Flagship

programmes like Skill Development, DLF CARES -

Talent Nurturing Programme, Village Cluster

Development, have further strengthened our

commitment towards this goal.

This issue of the Newsletter brings you glimpses of

the major activities carried out during 2012. Talent

Nurturing programme got a major boost and has

now become an all India programme. While, Skill

Development programme has also been revamped

to cover many states across the country. The Village

Cluster Development programme also has

undergone an overhaul and presently covers five

clusters. These are just a few milestones...there are

many more.

We will continue to bring to our readers news of our

activities, programmes and events every month. We

welcome your valuable suggestions and feedback to

improve this publication.

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SKILL DEVELOPMENT

4DLF CARES - TALENT

NURTURING PROGRAMME

5VILLAGE

CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT 6

GURGAON

RENEWAL MISSION

8 EDUCATION

10OTHER INITIATIVES

The DLF Foundation Advisory Board, chaired by DLF Chairman, Mr. K.P. Singh, drives the social initiatives of DLF

Foundation, the philanthropic arm of DLF Ltd. DLF's top executives and other eminent persons drawn from

various spheres form the members of the Advisory Board.

The Advisory Board formulates and recommends the Corporate Social Responsibility Policy based on the

recommendation received from the CSR/DLF Foundation Team. It also recommends the priorities for the sectors of

intervention and the CSR activities to be undertaken during the course of the year. The Board also recommends the

amount of expenditure to be incurred on the activities and reviews the programmes from time to time.

The Board of Directors of the company after

taking into account the recommendations made

by the Advisory Board approves the Corporate

Social Responsibility Policy, programmes and the

budget.

The Advisory Board meets regularly during the

year and give their expert knowledge and

provide the necessary guidance. Mr. K.P. Singh, Chairs the Advisory Board MeetingDLF Chairman,

EVENT OF THE YEAR

12DLF Foundation Advisory Board

EVENT OF THE YEAR

DLF Foundation Supports World’s Second Food Bank in India

DLF Foundation Recognised on 'World Food Day'

DLF Foundation was

recognised on World

Food Day for its partnership

with Aidmatrix Foundation

for setting up the Delhi

Food Bank, in a seminar

held at Shangri-La Hotel,

New Delhi.

The Honourable Minister of

Corporate Affairs, Shri

Sachin Pilot, graced the

occasion and awarded DLF

F o u n d a t i o n w i t h a

memento in recognition of

their support to the Indian

Food Banking Network.

Launching of the FoodBank initiative by Smt. Sheila Dikshit and Mr. Sam Pitroda

Construction workers receiving food packets

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As part of the ongoing social responsibility

initiatives, DLF Foundation partnered with

Aidmatrix Foundation in providing free food

items to the underprivileged sections of society

including construction labourers, slum dwellers

and underprivileged school children.

The initiative is part of an International Food

Banking Network, USA. The Delhi Food Bank

Initiative was launched as a part of the Indian

Food Bank Initiative on 8th June, 2012 by Chief

Minister, Smt. Shiela Dixit and Mr. Sam Pitroda.

Shri Sachin Pilot, Hon. Minister of Corporate Affairs, recognizes DLF Foundation

DLF CARES–Talent Nurturing Programme

“DLF Cares - Talent Nurturing Programme”, a flagship

initiative of DLF Foundation was launched in 2011 for

the upliftment of the meritorious underprivileged

students. Awarding scholarships, talent identification

and nurturing are the core motives of this programme.

The programme covers school children from class 1 to

undergraduate and subsequently post graduate

courses. The professional courses include Medicine

(MBBS), Engineering, IT, Fine Arts, Sports and

Management (MBA). The programme covers not only

academics but also non-academic areas such as

sports, music, art & craft.

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Provide opportunities to meritorious children

from underprivileged families to access quality

education in private schools & nurture their

talent till they succeed in selecting a promising

career on completion of their studies.Provide opportunity for overall development

where young talents are nurtured to reach their

full potential.Provide opportunity and platform to build their

self-confidence to integrate them with the

society through equal learning opportunities.Provide opportunity and exposure to build

children's positive attitudes, in their pursuit for

excellence, despite limited resources.Active engagement of the DLF employees &

their families – an employee volunteering

programme.

Our Approach...

Impacting numerous lives…

In 2012, DLF Foundation supported over 210

scholars comprising 130 school scholars and 80

scholars in professional category. It is expected to

give out over 875 scholarships every year as the

programme expands in the coming years. Several

talent nurturing programmes were part of their

efforts in 2012 to create a lasting impact on the

lives of the deserving scholars.

Scholars Exhibits Talents in Arts

Professional Category Scholars Receive Scholarships

Parents and Scholars at Annual Meet

Scholars Participate at Talent Festival

School Scholars at a Mentoring Session at Drona Public

School

Meet Our High Achievers

Rachita Luthra Ranks 7th in IP University in

Professional Category (MBA)

Girish Maity Scores 95% in School

Category (Class V)

DLF CARES - TALENT NURTURING PROGRAMME

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Building Lives

SKILL DEVELOPMENT

The Skill Development Programme of DLF

Foundation was launched under the banner of

DLF LIFE in early 2011. The Programme aims to train

and employ one million youth over the next 10 years

by establishing 250 training centers across the

country. As many as 20 DLF LIFE Skill training centers

were established during the year across the country

in a number of trades like IT, Hospitality, Retail,

Construction, Office Management, Electronics,

Customer Relations and Beauty Culture.

These centers have been established across the

states of Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh,

Skill a Million Programme - Spreads Pan India

Food Production Training in Progress

Skill training in hospitality sector

Passed out trainees from Hospitality Training Skill Centre

Trainees attending a Computer Skills Training Programme

Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka,

Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

The target segment of the population that the skill

development initiative seeks to address is the poor

unemployed youth in the age group of 17 to 30 years.

All DLF LIFE Skill training centers provide

employment assured training and the emphasis is to

ensure quality jobs for this vast pool of underserved

population.

Market linkages have been established for

providing access to employment to the trained

youths.

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Village Cluster Development Programme

DLF Foundation is actively engaged in developing

cluster of villages in rural Gurgaon. Under this

programme, a series of Primary Health Centers have

been established to act as nodal point of intervention.

These centers provide free medical consultancy,

specialist treatment, free diagnostics and subsidized

medicines to a large rural community. Linkages have

been established for secondary and tertiary health

care. Apart from provision of palliative and curative

care, the emphasis remains on the preventive and

promotive health care.

Besides, DLF Foundation is also focusing on forming

the Village Development Committee (VDC), which

would comprise of three sub-committees: the Village

Youth Council (VYC), the Village Council of Elders

(VCE), and the Village Health Committee (VHC). The

VDCs, in turn, will take a lead role in the process of

continuing to understand and respond to the needs of

their community.

VILLAGE CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT

In line with the Foundation’s commitment towards

‘Health for All’, regular community orientation

programmes are held which apart from providing

solutions, focus on information dissemination and

preventive healthcare practices.

Reaching Out to the Community

DLF Foundation organised several free multi-

speciality health camps. The camps provided

checkups, consultations and information on a wide

range of health issues for the underprivileged rural

communities. Besides providing various services, the

purpose of the village health camps were to orient the

rural community on health care aspects.

Multi-speciality Health Camps Organised

Medical Care @ Doorstep

DLF mobile clinics stand by the side of workers and

their families at the construction sites - bringing

doctors and medical aid right at their doorsteps.

Focused on providing free, accessible and quality

primary healthcare services, the mobile clinics have

helped 21160 patients. These mobile clinics operate

in six different regions in Gurgaon: Corporate Green,

Manesar; New Town Heights, Manesar; Express

Greens M1; Express Greens M2; Sector- 90 and

Sector- 91.

“The greatest wealth

is health.”

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Healthcare services are not accessed by a vast

majority in the rural and semi urban areas. Due

to the lack of access to quality medical services and

their inability to pay for medical facilities in far villages,

people keep away from seeking timely medical

intervention. The DLF supported Primary Healthcare

Project has tried to fill this gap in two states of Haryana

and Punjab. Running now in their fourth year, they

operate in Haryana (Nawada Fatehpur, Hayatpur,

Sakatpur and Shikopur) and in Punjab (Village

Dhanaura and Mohali) aiming to provide quality

healthcare at an affordable price to the rural

community. Special focus is on women and children.

Some of the out-patient services include maternal and

child healthcare, family planning and welfare,

prevention and control of communicable diseases and

other primary healthcare services.

Under the wider programme of DLF supported

Primary Health Care Project, a screening

camp was organised at Government Middle School,

Toga, Punjab. A paediatrician, a general health

practitioner and an eye specialist examined

100 students from middle school and 150 students

from primary school for general ailments,

weight, nutritional status, worms and eye

ailments. The objectives of the health camp

were to identify the health problems among

underprivileged and poor children, arouse

adequate consciousness about health and hygiene

and provide adequate medication. The one-day

camp was a huge success.

Primary Healthcare Project Expands its Footprint

Screening Camp for School Children Facilitated

VILLAGE CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT

“Only a life lived for othe

rs is a life

worthwhile.”

- Albert Einstein“You must be the

change you wish

to see in the world..”

- Mahatama Gandhi

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EDUCATION

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BM School celebrated its ecofriendly drive with

classes IV to X holding events and participating in

numerous competitions. About 21 models on ‘Energy

Conservation ’and ‘Best Out of Waste’ themes were

selected. The Eco Club held drawing, essay writing and

slogan writing competitions on “Energy Efficiency”

and ‘Conserving Water for Future’ for the school

children. Other events and festivals were also

celebrated with fun and fervor.

he students of S.B.M. School actively participated in

various activities organized by Directorate of

Education, Delhi and brought laurels to the school by

winning various positions.

SBM School Shows Eco Way More Reasons to Rejoice at DLF Shiksha Schools

On repeated demands of the parents of students

at DLF Shiksha School, the school at village

Jharsa has been upgraded to 6th and 7th standard.

Another major landmark is a new primary school at

DLF Phase-IV, Chakkarpur. It was inaugurated by

former Governor of Punjab and Chief of Army Staff

(Retd.) Gen. O.P. Malhotra on July 20 in the august

presence of Municipal Councillor, Sunita Yadav, Ward

No.33, Chakkarpur; Mr. Vijay Singh and Mr. P.K. Joseph

of DLF Foundation. The strength of the school was 35

students on the first day, which reached 75 in just one

month's time and is still rising.

Shri Vayalar Ravi, Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs examines exhibits

“Education is not preparation for life;

education is life itself.”

Learning While Their Parents Work!

The DLF Katha School programme offers crèche

cum school facility for children of construction

workers. Here, learning is fun through its great

innovative programme story pedagogy. The school's

space designing makes the characters of the stories

come alive and makes learning more interesting, fun

filled and creates enough excitement in the children to

attend regularly.

EDUCATION

Children Enthusiasm Enigmatic at DLF Swapna Sarthak School

The enthusiasm and eagerness on the smiling faces

of the students at DLF- Swapna Sarthak School is

heartening. Throughout the year, children celebrated

various festivals and occasions. There are three

schools being run by DLF Foundation and Shiksha for

imparting free education to the underprivileged

children. The total strength of all the three schools has

crossed 1200 students and the average daily

attendance is more than 800.

Glimpses of various activities at the schools

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Dr Praveen Kumar (IAS) (Administrator, HUDA) gives his

inaugural address

At a major seminar held on 'Infrastructure

Development and Environmental Sustainability',

the mission partners and participants came up with a

Road Map for creating Smart Infrastructure for the

city. Key highlights included need to introduce state-

of-the-art fire fighting systems for high rise buildings,

need for using External Development Charges

collected by the government for building better

infrastructure, avoiding water depletion, providing

better security for citizens, de-congesting the city and

making the city free of street children aligning with

National Child Labour Project (NCLP) under Ministry of

Labour and the need to impart employable skills to the

unemployed.

Gurgaon Renewal

Mission (GRM) is a

movement that aims

to provide a platform

for all stakeholders to

spur action to resuscitate Gurgaon and initiate

Gurgaon-centric development. The Mission is

supported by DLF Foundation and driven by a

coalition of partners comprising civil society,

business and government.

During the course of the year, the Mission has

undertaken several activities including

seminars, workshops, research, peace march,

policy papers, advocacy campaigns and a few

Gurgaon-Centric initiatives and urged the city

administration to bring about positive changes

in Gurgaon. Here are the glimpses of activities

of the Mission during the year.

Gurgaon Citizens Meet to make Gurgaon a Water Neutral City

S eminar on Water Management in Gurgaon was

organized by Gurgaon Renewal Mission in

partnership with HIPA. The event was attended by

over 150 prominent citizens and the participants

discussed issues relating to Water Management. A

delegation met with the local government bodies

including HUDA, MCG and DC and submitted a “White

Paper” post workshop.

Seminar on Creating Sustainable & World Class Infrastructure

GURGAON RENEWAL MISSION

Municipal commissioner Mr Sudhir Raj Pal, IAS,

delivering his key note address

A delegation of prominent citizens of Gurgaon, under

the banner of Gurgaon Renewal Mission, met Shri

Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Hon`ble Chief Minister of

Haryana, at his camp office in Delhi. They submitted a

memorandum to the Chief Minister and spoke about a

number of issues that are causing the citizens of Gurgaon

a great concern and needing his immediate intervention.

GRM Delegation Meets Haryana Chief Minister

A delegation led by Lt Gen Rajender Singh along with

Ambassodor RP Singh meet with the Chief Minister of Haryana,

Shri Bhupinder Singh

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Chief Guest Shri K. K. Jalan, IAS, Principal Secretary,

Irrigation Department, Haryana (at centre)

GURGAON RENEWAL MISSION

Peace March in progress for a safe and Secure Gurgaon

Workshop on Finding Traffic Solutions

UN HABITAT Regional Advisor presents international model

of creating Smart Cities.

Mission Global Gurgaon: 1st National Convention

Mr. S.Y. Quraishi, IAS, Former DC & Chief Election

Commissioner of India addressing the gathering

The conference deliberated upon finding integrated and sustainable approaches to manage traffic and

transportation problems of the city. Some of the key recommendations included improving roads intersections, decongestion of the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway, better co-ordination between Transport and Traffic Management agencies, sensitizing the present technical manpower about the urban transport issues, increasing traffic personnel, need for high quality intra-bus service, need to resolve severe scarcity in parking spaces, integrated transport systems, adopting traffic management measures, and using smart technologies for intelligent traffic control, car pooling and encouraging cycling and walking. Besides, rigid maintenance and re-surfacing of roads and building service lanes on all major roads were also recommended.

The convention discussed and deliberated upon

finding integrated & sustainable approach to make

Gurgaon a global city with productive & definitive

outcomes.

Peace March for a Secure Gurgaon

Large number of citizens got together to organize a

Sadbhavna (Peace) March and Sadbhavna Camp

followed by job placement for unemployed youth,

clothes distribution and Community Lunch for the

underprivileged at Poorvi Marg, DLF Phase II, Gurgaon.

The participants highlighted that peace is not merely the

absence of violence or public protest; but it is the result

of creating a condition where the city has achieved a

balance of prosperity, security, justice and hope for all its

citizens, including the deprived inhabitants living in the

slums and villages of Gurgaon.

To make Gurgaon a smart city, a White Paper was

prepared based on the inputs received during the

seminar on Transforming Gurgaon into a Smart City. The

recommendations included Better utilization of EDC

collected for Gurgaon's Development; Correction in

planning based on flawed population statistics; Issue of

multiple authorities leading to confusion and inadequate

governance; Need for enhancing the institutional

capacity of local bodies; Provision for online complaint

posting and redressal by authorities; Water planning and

management - an urgent necessity; Caring for low

income groups and the underprivileged; Adopting solar

energy; Viable parking solutions; Traffic congestions and

Private participation in electricity sector.

White Paper Released

Gurgaon Police Commissioner Mr. KK Sindhu addressing

the participants

Conference on “Making Gurgaon a Smart City”

Tthe event was organized by Gurgaon Renewal Mission in partnership with Gurgaon First. Over 150

prominent citizens including HUDA Administrator discussed issues relating to environmental sustainability, waste management, water, sewage and drainage systems. The Swedish delegation presented international models for developing sustainable cities.

Mr. Praveen Kumar, HUDA Administrator suggesting steps

for smart city

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DLF Foundation, as part of its philanthropic

initiatives, distributed blankets to slum

dwellers and underprivileged people in January

this year, providing succour and warmth to what is

largely an invisible population.

Blankets Spreading Warmth for the

Homeless

OTHER INITIATIVES

DLF Foundation initiated construction of over

45 Rain Water Harvesting (RWH) units in the

Millennium city, Gurgaon. It is felt that installation

of these units will aid in replenishing the depleting

water levels in Gurgaon and also thwart flooding

of the roads and

low lying areas

w h i c h c a u s e s

t r e m e n d o u s

inconvenience to

t h e p u b l i c i n

general.

Animal Care Takes a Leap at CGS

Hospital

CGS Hospital is the only veterinary facility in

Delhi-NCR that provides 24 x 7 emergency

care. The hospital is spread over 1.25 acres of

land, with a covered area of 17000 sq. ft. Fully air

conditioned, it provides facilities like ultrasound

and echo-cardiography, video and fiber optic

endoscopy, well equipped pathology and

microbiology laboratory, CO2 laser surgery and

computerized radiography. In addition to the

medical care units (In-Patient, Out-Patient

Departments), there are separate facilities for

boarding and play area

for pets. The pet

supplies shop at the

hospital is well stocked

w i t h e x c l u s i v e

prescription diets for

various pet illnesses.

All social and economic interventions by DLF Foundation are identified and conceived keeping in mind

the need, requirement and the benefit which they are likely to give to the community for which they are

intended to be implemented.

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DLF Foundation Sets up 45 Rain Water

Harvesting Structures