Founder Message

Milan Foundation is a registered trust.This environment, education, health, women and child development, working fordifferent weaker sections of the society, training people for self-employment,road safety, etc. The aim of the Milan Foundation is to combine our lifestylewith Yagya and Yoga so that people can live an inclusive life in harmony withnature with our old values and practices.

We're at a time in our history when meetingresource demands while controlling and reversing environmental degradation areamong our most important problems. The focus of the Milan Foundation is at theintersection of these two fundamental areas. How can we manage the intersectingresources needed to supply food, energy, and water? How can we use ourknowledge of the environment - gained through scholarship and research inengineering, natural sciences, and social sciences - to our best advantage inbalancing our resource needs while protecting the environment? The Instituteseeks to encourage work at Vanderbilt to tackle these questions. It has a broadmandate with ambitious goals for a scholarship, teaching, and outreach. Ourvision for Milan Foundation is to become an international leader incontributing to the resolution of critical issues by fostering links amongdiverse fields of human thought and action in unprecedented collaborations.

To reach our goals, it is absolutelyessential that we learn how to work together within interdisciplinary teams onsocial, economic, legal, and technical aspects of problems. Milan Foundationseeks to engage members of the faculty, graduate students, undergraduatestudents, and post-doctoral researchers from various disciplines and schools atVanderbilt, along with partners from other universities, industries,non-governmental organizations, and government agencies in our enterprise.

                                                                                                           Dr.Balkar Singh