BRLF to help developmental needs of tribal populated districts of Central India.

Government has informed that it has decided to set up the Bharat Rural Livelihood Foundation (BRLF) as not-for-profit society to tackle the developmental challenges facing the tribal population in Central India. Replying to a question in the Lok Sabha, the Minister of State for Rural Development Shri Pradeep Jain said that the proposed Foundation will facilitate and upscale civil society action in partnership with Government for transforming livelihood and lives in rural households, with emphasis on women. He said, Corporate houses had been requested to partner with the proposed BRLF so far and Sir Ratan Tata Trust has agreed to partner and contribute to the BRLF corpus. BRLF is proposed to be set up as a society with an All-India mandate, initially focusing on approximately 170 tribal populated districts of Central India.