Urbo- Rural Integrated Development Association (URIDA), a national level NGO, came into existence in 1991 when a team of committed individuals from various disciplines came together to promote socio- economic and infrastructural development in urban as well as rural areas. URIDA’s vision is “Enlightened Communities free from evils of poverty, illiteracy and ignorance”. For the last 27 years the organization has been working in the fields of Skill development, health, education, women empowerment, handicraft promotion and disaster management.
List of our supporters include Ministries like Ministry of Rural Development, AYUSH, Women and Child Development, Textiles, HRD ,Health and family Welfare, Environment and Forests, Home Affairs, Road transport and highways, and Departments such as Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Municipal Committee of Haridwar, Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan-UP, Autonomous bodies including National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), Central Board of secondary Education (CBSE) CAPART, National Mission for Empowerment of Women (NMEW),and National Insurance Corporation of India. Foreign Donor agencies like USAID, Education Trust (USA), CORE group have also supported URIDA’s social development initiatives in the past. The organization has also associated with Container Corporation of India Ltd, ONGC, TATA group and LIC of India for implementing their CSR programmes.
The organization is an empanelled training provider under various skill development projects such as DDUGKY, ISDS, PMKVY, MMKVY/MMKY and SKP by CBSE. We are also empanelled as a handicrafts training partner with Ministry of Textiles (Handicrafts) and National CSR hub of Tata Institute of Social Sciences.