North East India, a rainbow country, opulent in ethnic composition and identity, is blessed with a treasure trove of flora and fauna and abundant natural resources. The eight states located in India’s North East cover an area of 2, 62,179sq. Km, constituting 7.9 percent of the country’s total geographical area, but have only 39 million people, about 3.8 per cent of the total population of the country (2001 census). Perhaps no other region in the world with corresponding size and population has so much diversity as this region does. The abiding factors that make the relation-ship of the diverse section of the people, however, since the beginning of time, are common quest for progress, prosperity and enlightenment.

Despite this kaleidoscopic opulence, and for various reasons, the region has remained economically and socially backward. It has had to continuously overwhelmingly depend on the Central Government for resources. The Planning Commission of India has even tagged the North East India as a “backward” area.

Such circumstances have attracted the concern of many individual and groups who hold the region with great pride and affection. Mr. P. A. Sangma, a stalwart political leader and a visionary has shared his forethought of the North East India at many intellectual gatherings. His concern and his initiatives to address the myriad needs to the region are well known to the people at large. To continue the noble service that he has rendered to the people of the region, as public representatives for the last three decades, a group of committed individuals who also share Mr. P. A. Sangma’s concern and noble vision have initiated the naissance of The P. A. Sangma Foundation. The P.A.Sangma Foundation is essentially a platform that is committed to impart humanitarian service that the people of the region urgently need.

The vision of the Foundation is to be an “agent of change” and to empower the people socially and economically, through education, training and awareness programmes of intrinsic values.

Current Intervention Taken up by The Foundation:
•    Deputation of the young students for coaching course for various competitive exams.
•    Financial Assistance extended to students going for further studies in foreign countries.
•    Financial Assistance extended to farmers growing rubber for attending training in the southern state of Kerala.
•    Extended succor to the needy women for medical treatment and other livelihood activities.
•    Financial assistance to different societies/organisations having similar activities and objectives for literary and cultural programmes.
•    Opening of a new tertiary education in the name and style of P.A. Sangma Foundation Higher Secondary School.
•    Engaging public deliberation and mobilising public opinion towards, The Road Map to Rural Development, Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, Environment Awareness and Disaster Management.
•    Preserving and proliferating skilled traditional art in Weaving and thereby creating opportunities for semi skilled and skilled workers.