HCL Grant awards the winning NGOs in each of the categories of Environment,Health and Education, a grant of ₹ 5 Crore (~US$0.71 Million) for a 5 years project. The HCL Grant rewards the other finalists too, who are doing great work in their own right. So the 2 other finalists in each category receive a grant of ₹ 25 lakhs (~US$0.04 Million) for an year-long project which is mutually agreed with HCL Foundation after the final Jury meet. Thus, the total committed fund for HCL Grant is ₹16.5 Crores (~US$2.36 Million), for Edition V. Since its inception in 2015, HCL Grant has given wings to brilliant and committed NGOs - to create a revolutionary kind of transformation. Past 4 years of the Grant have seen an emergence of a cadre of remarkable community-based, participatory NGOs that have dug-in their heels and proceeded to strengthen grassroots development, deepen impact, and scale it. So far, the HCL Grant has already committed ₹51.5 Crore (~US$7.36 Million) towards high impact projects. Through this commitment, the HCL Grant supported projects aim to cover 10,15,033 people in 7,577 villages in 42 districts across 14 states of India, through 16 HCL Grant NGO Partners. 4,64,088 lives in most remote rural areas have already been impacted and 12,000 hectares of common land & forest land brought under community governance, through these projects, operational in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh & West Bengal. Besides this, each year, work of upto 30 shortlisted NGOs, 10 per category, has been photo documented and published in The Fifth Estate – The HCL Grant Compendium – Volume I, II & III. This is possibly the first ever, sector wide, comprehensive compendium of highly credible NGOs, highlighting their proposals submitted for HCL Grant, striving towards the empowerment of rural India.