Urivi Vikram Charitable Trust (UVCT), a non-governmental and non profit Organization, was established in India in 1991. It was founded by Dr U N B Rao and his wife, Urivi Chaya , with the support of 60 other professionals and well meaning citizens, in fond memory of their only son Urivi Vikram who was killed, at a prime age of 20/21 years, in a road accident. Rao family tried to reverse the arrow
of sorrow and work to help empower the adolescents and young adults. UVCT was registered initially as Trust vide Registration No. 4341 (Volume 2419) dated 12 Dec 1991 in Delhi. It was converted into a society under the Societies Registration Act of 1860, vide Certificate No.S/26392 dated 30-7-1994. Besides its 11 centers functioning in 6 cities - Bangalore, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Vishakhapatnam, & Delhi and alliance with a number of other organizations and institution, UVCT has currently expanded its horizons in the global arena with UVCT USA. In the year 2008, UVCT got a remarkable achievement with the set up of National Centre for Adolescents as Urivi Vikram National Centre for Adolescent with the support and contributions from Delhi Government, Dr. Karan Singh, MP (through MP Local Area Development Scheme), Corporate Giants:Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL), Power Grid Corporation Ltd., Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL), Allahabad Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Jindal Power & Steel Ltd, Punjab National Bank and Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd.(BHEL) and many other like minded people. UVCT’s priority target group comprises school-going children, drop-outs and under-achievers. UVCT has a motto of finding ways and means to transform the world’s ‘Burden of Population’ into ‘Assets of Human Resources’, through a process of empowerment, rather than of control.
