Motto | "We Work The Talk!" |
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Formation | 1997 |
Legal status | Active |
Location |
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Official language
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Telugu English Hindi |
Managing Trustee
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N. Bhuvaneswari |
Trustee
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Nara Lokesh |
CEO
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T Vishnu Vardhan |
Website | ntrtrust |
NTR Trust or NTR Memorial Trust is a not-for-profit Indian social welfare organization. The headquarter of this organization is in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. The organization was founded in 1997 for charitable and social welfare purposes. The organization was named after N. T. Rama Rao, a south Indian actor, director and ex Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.
NTR Trust was established in 1997, in the same year the Andhra Pradesh government headed by N. Chandrababu Naidu allocated land for the organization.
In 2011 the organization announced that they would set up safe drinking water plants for the poor people who don't have easy access to safe drinking water. Earlier they had set up NTR Sujala Pathakam project that aimed at providing safe drinking water to 50,000 people.
In 2014, they organized a job-fair (job mela) at NTR Trust Bhavan, Hyderabad, where 600 youths participated.
In June 2014 Nara Lokesh, son of N. Chandrababu Naidu, took charge of NTR Trust Bhavan, currently he is a trustee of the organization.
In 2015 the organization declared about establishing a college in Gandipet.
NTR Trust provides services such as free education to poor children and youth, healthcare, youth empowerment, and Disaster Response & Relief. It also runs a Blood Bank in Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam and Guntur (NABH accredited) In November 2015, NTR trust announced that they would offer free coaching to poor students.
Under the support of Nara Brahmani, the daughter-in-law of Chandrababu Naidu, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh as of 2016, NTR Memorial Trust in December 2015, started training the first batch of job aspirant graduate and post-graduate students. About 900 applicants they are training 130 candidates who have passed a level-II exam, free of cost for the competitive exams. A blood donation drive will be organized on 18 January 2016, 20th death anniversary of the former chief minister of the Andhra Pradesh, N.T.Rama Rao by the organization. It was reported that in more than 200 places, blood donation camps will be held.