BL reported that Steel Authority of India Limited’s Salem Steel Plant received the Corporate Social Responsibility Award from the government of Tamil Nadu for the year 2008-09.
Mr BB Singh ED SSP received the award from Mr MK Stalin deputy chief minister of Tamil Nadu at a function held in Chennai recently.
The award comprised a cash prize of INR 500,000 and a certificate.
The plant had spent a sum of INR 1.08 crore for its CSR initiatives during the year 2008-09.
It had undertaken a number of activities in the areas of healthcare, education, infrastructure and women empowerment in the peripheral villages.
Medical camps were organised in the surrounding villages in association with the panchayat administrations, providing free medical check-ups and medicines besides extending further treatment at the plant’s hospital.
Sanitation facilities, school buildings with library, building for Anganwadi and special school for child labour, overhead water tanks, community buildings and other infrastructural facilities were constructed as a part of the CSR initiatives in the model steel village, Tirumalaigiri.
As a part of the women’s empowerment program, the plant conducted multi-skilled tailoring and garment industry training through the Sona College of Technology.
The plant also conducts annual sports meet and inter school competitions.
(Sourced from http://www.steelguru.com/news/index/2009/10/23/MTE3MTQ5/State_award_for_Salem_Steel_Plant.html)
Thursday, October 22, 2009
State award for Salem Steel Plant
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