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Corporate social responsibility

The K.C. Pullaiah Foundation

KPC’s community work is carried by a trust founded in 2008 on the initiative of our Founder Chairman, the late Sri K.C. Pullaiah, and named after him since 2012. It works at grassroots level — education, skilling, women’s livelihoods, health and the environment — and has reached over 1.4 lakh lives across nine programmes.

1.4lakh+

Lives reached across nine programmes

9

Live programmes, education to environment

92%

Placement rate at the skill development centres

2008

Founded, as the KPC Foundation

Learning through the Foundation

A classroom session in the Foundation’s skill development programme.
A classroom session in the Foundation’s skill development programme.

Why it exists

A construction company’s obligation does not stop at the site boundary

KPC has built for the state since 1973 — housing, hospitals, campuses, highways, memorials. Every one of those contracts is won and delivered in a place where people live, and the founder took the view that a firm which builds in a district owes that district something beyond the works.

The K.C. Pullaiah Foundation was established in 2008 on his initiative, as the KPC Foundation, and was renamed in his memory after his death in 2012. It is a separate trust with its own governance, its own team and its own site, funded by KPC and by national skilling and development programmes.

The work is deliberately grassroots. Education and scholarships. Vocational skilling that ends in employment. Women’s empowerment and livelihoods. Personality development for students. Environmental protection. And, where a community has no other route to it, basic infrastructure for people who need it.

None of it is presented here as a marketing line. The programmes, the events calendar, the people running them and the ways to support the work are all set out by the Foundation itself.

Visit kcpullaiahfoundation.orgThe founder’s story →

The flagship work

Five programmes that carry the Foundation

Nine programmes run at any one time. These five are where the volume, the funding partnerships and the outside recognition sit.

  1. Skill Development

    Training that ends in a job, not a certificate

    Underprivileged rural youth are trained in a trade, certified, and placed with an employer. The measure of the programme is not how many people sat in a classroom but how many walked out into paid work — which is why the placement figure is published alongside the training figure.

    Two centres run the courses: one in Hyderabad and one in Proddatur, the founder’s home town. Training is funded through a mix of KPC’s own contribution and external skilling programmes, and employers are brought into the course design so that what is taught is what is being hired for.

    Funded withKPC Projects Limited · PMKVY / NSDC · HDFC Parivartan · Tech Mahindra Foundation

    Youth trained
    1,044
    Placed in work
    959
    Placement rate
    92%
    Centres
    Hyderabad · Proddatur

  2. Nutritional support

    Monthly nutrition for children living with HIV, and for orphans

    Consistent nutrition is one of the things that decides whether antiretroviral treatment holds in a child. Working through the treatment-centre network in Hyderabad and Secunderabad, the Foundation has helped identify 2,450 HIV-positive children across the twin cities, and provides monthly nutrition support to 220 of them along with children in orphanages.

    The programme is built around continuity of supply rather than one-time distribution: support follows the child’s clinical follow-up, month after month, for as long as it is needed. It is the Foundation’s longest-running work and its most externally recognised.

    Children identified
    2,450
    On monthly support
    220
    Geography
    Hyderabad and Secunderabad
    Recognised
    2021, 2022, 2023

  3. Jute Integrated Development Scheme

    Women trained in a craft, then helped into business

    Run with the National Jute Board under the Ministry of Textiles, the scheme trains women to design and manufacture jute products, certifies them, and then does the harder second half: helping them register and run enterprises of their own rather than returning to piece work.

    Corporate buyers — KPC among them — place orders with those enterprises, which gives the businesses an order book to start from instead of a market they have to find alone.

    Partner
    National Jute Board, Ministry of Textiles
    Scheme
    Jute Integrated Development Scheme (JIDS)
    Focus
    Training, certification and enterprise set-up

  4. K.C. Pullaiah Memorial National Awards

    Recognising service that is rarely recognised

    Presented annually in the founder’s name, the awards honour individuals whose service has changed something in their field. Four categories are conferred: Kalaa Rathna for arts and culture, Vidhya Rathna for education, Seva Rathna for social development, and Haritha Rathna for the environment.

    The awards are deliberately national in reach and deliberately unglamorous in criteria — the shortlist is drawn from sustained work, not from profile.

    Categories
    Kalaa Rathna · Vidhya Rathna · Seva Rathna · Haritha Rathna
    Fields honoured
    Arts and culture, education, social development, environment
    Held
    Annually, in Proddatur

  5. Vidvatta

    Scholarships that keep merit students in education

    Vidvatta supports students who have the marks but not the means, from school through to higher study. Scholarships cover fees and the equipment a course actually requires, so that a student is not forced to leave an education they have already earned a place in.

    Awards are made each year on the founder’s memorial day — the one date in the Foundation’s calendar that ties the scholarship directly back to the man whose own education was cut short by circumstance.

    Support
    College fees and study equipment
    Stage
    School through to higher study
    Awarded
    Annually, on the founder’s memorial day

Recognition

Judged from outside, not claimed from inside

The nutrition programme has been assessed and recognised by the state body that runs the treatment network it works alongside — three years running.

  • 2021, 2022 and 2023

    Best Health Services Award

    Telangana State AIDS Control Society

    Three consecutive years, for the nutrition programme for children living with HIV.

  • Social Impact Award

    Kalam Centre, New Delhi

    For the Foundation’s work with underprivileged and excluded communities.

The full programme list

Nine programmes, one trust

Together these reach over 1.4 lakh lives. They run across Hyderabad and Secunderabad in Telangana and Proddatur in the Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh — the founder’s home district.

ProgrammeFocusWhat it covers
Skill Development CentreEmployabilityCertified vocational training with placement support for rural youth, at the Hyderabad and Proddatur centres.
VidvattaEducationScholarships and study support for merit students who cannot otherwise continue their education.
SaphalaPersonality developmentLife-skills and personality-development training for students, delivered in schools and colleges.
AnupreranaCareer guidanceCareer counselling in government schools, so that students choose a next step from information rather than from guesswork.
Jute StudioWomen’s livelihoodsTraining, certification and enterprise support for women under the National Jute Board’s development scheme.
Vanam–ManamEnvironmentTree planting, seed-ball dispersal, highway plantation and sanitation infrastructure for schools.
Social InclusionEquityRelief, livelihood and advocacy work with transgender, differently-abled and other excluded communities in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
AarogyamHealthMedical camps, blood donation drives and the monthly nutrition programme for children living with HIV.
Helping HandsWelfareDirect support to orphanages, children’s homes and old-age homes, including meal provision.

Reach figures for individual programmes are published by the Foundation on its own site, at kcpullaiahfoundation.org, alongside its annual reporting.

Who funds the work

Programme partners

KPC funds the Foundation, but it is not the only funder. National skilling programmes and corporate CSR partners co-fund specific programmes, which is also what holds them to an external standard of reporting.

  • KPC Projects Limited

    Founding and continuing funder

  • PMKVY / NSDC

    Skilling programme funding and certification

  • HDFC Parivartan

    Skill development centre funding

  • Tech Mahindra Foundation

    Skilling and social inclusion

  • National Jute Board

    Women’s livelihoods, Ministry of Textiles

From the newsroom

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Get in touch

Talk to the Foundation directly

Scholarship enquiries, skilling admissions, CSR partnerships and donations are handled by the Foundation’s own team — not by KPC. The quickest route is the Foundation’s site, where each programme has its own page and its own point of contact.

Visit kcpullaiahfoundation.orgContact KPC Projects

K.C. Pullaiah Skill Development Centre

6-3-348/7 & 8, Dwarkapuri ColonyPanjagutta, Hyderabad 500082Telangana, India

040-48541888

info@kcpullaiahfoundation.org

kcpullaiahfoundation.org