SDG 10.6Inclusion beyond the campus
UPES works with communities facing economic, social and geographic barriers, from village schoolgirls to tribal women weavers.
- Daughters of UPES. Project Payal supports meritorious girls from neighbouring villages with financial help and mentoring, and UPES counts 49 “adopted daughters”.
- First-generation learners. Most Protsaahan scholars come from low-income families and are the first in their families to go to university; two more students from the Purkal Youth Development Society joined UPES on full scholarships in 2025–26.
- Children of workers. Project Samvedna runs a day school on the campuses for the children of migrant construction workers, with education, day care, mid-day meals, medical check-ups, clothing and uniforms.
- Skills for the support workforce. The UPES Skills Academy trains security and housekeeping staff in English, computers and communication, starting with a batch of 20, and Project Grow teaches housekeeping staff communicative English and digital skills such as using smartphones and digital payments.
- Rural women. Project Vikalp trains women in nearby villages to make eco-friendly products such as recycled-paper pencils and to grow medicinal and aromatic plants, with design and marketing support.
- Women artisans in Ladakh. Project Artisan builds design skills among women weavers in a remote village of Ladakh for the collective production and sale of back-strap loom carpets.
- Adopted villages. Project Utthan has reached about 155 families in villages of Dehradun district, holding medical camps and distributing ration kits as it works towards model villages.
- Partners. With Dehradun NGOs, UPES students organise a Diwali fair selling products made by marginalised women, orphaned children and small artisans, and DaanUtsav each year collects clothes, books and essentials for families in need.