LIC HFL Hriday Project

From Hills to Heartland: Transformed Education in Uttarakhand & Haryana

Our Initiative

Improve Living Standards

In the remote hills of Syalde, where families have long struggled with fragile incomes, scarce healthcare, and limited infrastructure, a new heartbeat of hope is emerging. The Hriday Project, supported by LIC Housing Finance Ltd. and implemented by Sanjeevani NGO, is not just a CSR initiative—it is a movement of dignity, resilience, and empowerment. It seeks to ignite livelihoods, strengthen communities, and build futures that endure, ensuring that every household in these 20 villages steps into self‑reliance with pride. The project benefitted 6746 population in all.

Our Strategy

Agri-Horticulture

Reviving millets, enabling climate-smart polyhouses, and securing slope-side water—blending tradition with innovation to empower vulnerable farmers with resilient, year-round livelihoods.

Education

School infrastructure was upgraded to ensure quality education, safe water, clean toilets, learning walls, labs, gyms, and solar lights— bridging the urban-rural gap so every child can learn and thrive.

Women Empowerment

Female-led VDCs, government bridges, and goat-rearing skills—uniting inclusion, advocacy, and livelihoods for resilient rural empowerment.

Health

Lighting villages with solar power and planting sustainable orchards—safer nights, longer productivity, and lasting income, all while shrinking carbon footprints.

Environment

Illuminating villages with Solar Street Lights. Safer Nights, Zero Emissions, Community-Powered.

Program Objective

This project aims to empower rural hilly communities through comprehensive planning, context-specific system design, and targeted capacity building. It will develop sustainable infrastructure such as solar lighting, irrigation, and polyhouses, while diversifying livelihoods through goat rearing, millet cultivation, and fruit cultivation. By strengthening market linkages, empowering village committees, and promoting health camps, the initiative fosters self-reliance. Environmental sustainability and eco-friendly farming are prioritized alongside active gender and social inclusion, ensuring equitable, resilient, and participatory community development outcomes.

What The Future Holds

Ultimately, the future of the Hriday Project is about obsolescence by design. The true measure of its success will be the day LIC HFL and Sanjeevani steps back, and the 20 villages continue to thrive independently. The 6746 individuals of Syalde will no longer be viewed as beneficiaries of charity, but as proud, self-reliant citizens. The "Hriday" project will have successfully pumped life, dignity, and enduring hope into the remote hills, creating a replicable model of holistic rural development for the rest of the community to follow.

305+ farmers benefited

Millet & Pulses cultivation

200+ Farmers benefited

40
Low-cost polyhouse

400+ Families benefited

2000 Apple saplings
distributed to

200 Goats & 100 Bucks

100 Goat
Rearer support with

554+ person benefited

7
Health Camps

190+ Male & Female Benefited

20
VDCs

673+ People benefited

20
FIGs

602+ Students benefited

3 Schools Upgraded with Smart Classes, Toilets, RO/UV Water & BaLA

6746+ Lives Illuminated

212
Solar Lights