More Cause to Celebrate!

PANI has received the HDFC Bank Parivartan Excellence Award 2023 for being an Innovator in Natural Resource Management to better lives in vulnerable communities while reducing the impact of climate change. The Award was received by Shri Bharat Bhushan, Chief Functionary, PANI, at a glittering ceremony held in Mumbai on February 14, 2024.

We are grateful for this recognition of PANI’s HRDP P0345 project which has facilitated water efficient irrigation with reduced carbon emissions for five hundred small and marginal farmers with scattered land holdings in the Chargawa block of Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.

The innovative installation which comprises twelve Group Irrigation (GI) Units – five stationary and seven mobile solar units – drew widespread attention from the local farming community at the recently held Gorakhpur Mahotsava. The keen interest evinced by farmers from neighbouring villages in adopting this innovation has been encouraging.

PANI has served as a CSR partner to HDFC Bank since 2016. Through the eight years partnership, we have been able to transform lives of people from marginalised and vulnerable communities at a significant scale. We look forward to impacting more lives through our continuing partnership with HDFC.