Sterlite Annual Report 2018-19

Corporate Social Responsibility

Small Steps. Meaningful Impact.

For us, at Sterlite Power, communities are not merely a stakeholder, but the very reason of our existence. Apart from overcoming the toughest challenges of energy delivery, we also work towards moving past the challenges faced by the communities and bringing real change in their lives.

With our CSR initiatives, no matter how small or large they are, we want to make a meaningful contribution to the society. Our aim is simple – from a youth in Kashmir to a housewife in Jharkhand and a farmer in Odisha, we want to brighten up their life in real. From providing relief objects to Kerala flood camps to access to healthy drinking water, here are some of our ways to give back to the community.

RESTORING KERALA

As a response to the unprecedented damage caused by the 2018 floods in Kerala, Sterlite Power, in association with SEEDS, an NGO, came forward to take charge of the damaged subcentre building. The subcentre catered to the elderly, women and children in the area. In addition, locals depended on the subcentre for antenatal checkup and immunisation for their children. Specific interventions were undertaken after a detailed assessment. The aim was to make the subcentre safe, healthy, sustainable and universally accessible. Through this restoration project, we were able to tend to the repair of water seepage in the building; repair of waiting area for patients; and inclusion of a child-friendly space in the premises as well as a comfortable and relaxing environment for the elderly.
Located in the Malappuram district, a government-owned primary school sustained serious damage in the floods. With a 12-month programme, we carefully dismantled and reconstructed walls; identified, cleaned and unclogged blockages in the waste/water pipelines in the bathrooms; levelled the land on premises and so on. Our holistic intervention helped refurbish and upgrade the school infrastructure from ground up.

OTHER KEY HIGHLIGHTS OF 2018-19

We conduct range of CSR initiatives that are relevant for the local communities across our project and plant sites.

We distributed umbrellas and refreshments among students and teachers of the government-owned Surajmani Primary School, near our NER II Tripura project site.
We organised several blanket donation camps across the country, in the regions of Madhav Rao Devle Shiksha Mandir (Haridwar), Divya Bharat Shiksha Santarsa and Bahadurpur Saini.
On January 26, 2019, when India celebrated Republic Day, we circulated sports kits and water purifiers (with reverse osmosis technology) at local government schools near BDTCL project site.
We distributed amenities in flood relief camps for the victims of the disastrous Kerala floods of 2018.
We teamed up with Aprajita Women Council to conduct a fun-filled session at the Red Cross School for Physically and Mentally Challenged Children. We gave away drawing books, color pencils, slates and chocolates with the kids, much to their delight.
We organise annual blood donation camps, in association with Red Cross Society Silvassa. This year, 111 donors turned up for the event, leaving us overwhelmed with the response.
We delivered school bags and pre-owned desktops among school children near our projects in Khargone and Haridwar respectively.