Making a meaningful difference to the communities in and around our project operations and plants, forms the cornerstone of our CSR vision at Sterlite Power.

From the marginalised in the North East, to a small family in a village in Kashmir, to a community in Kerala – our efforts have been instrumental in bringing smiles to people’s faces. In times of calamity and distress, we have worked shoulder to shoulder with our NGO partners to bring families together and restore their lives.

STANDING TOGETHER DURING THE PANDEMIC

While the entire nation was reeling under the throes of the pandemic, we, as a leading transmission developer, have been on constant vigil to ensure an uninterrupted flow of reliable electricity. Further, as the need to step up relief efforts took centre-stage, our teams across our project sites, too, joined hands to contribute to the society. We identified several villages in the vicinity of our transmission operations for many of our COVID-19 interventions.

The NC Hills autonomous council in Assam was one such beneficiary community. Counted among India’s 250 most backward districts, they were at a risk of increased exposure to the contagion due to the lack of necessary protection gear like masks, sanitisers and handwash. Our team undertook the sourcing and provision of these essential items in the shortest possible time.

We also supplied ration and other essential items to the Maar community near our project site in Assam. One of the state’s most vulnerable minorities, the Maar reside in Arda, which is more than 30 km off the nearest road. Our team not just ensured that the villagers are adequately stocked, but also conducted a contactless health check-up and thermal screening of each person in the village.

In addition, a state-of-the-art ambulance was provided to the villagers around the Baghmari tea estate near our project site in Assam. The unavailability of ambulance services in the area and poor quality of medical facilities, was a threat to the wellness of the locals. Our intervention will help the ~5,000 villagers to access emergency health services as and when the need arises.

Our team has also undertaken distribution of food packages to more than 1,000 villagers in the Surendranagar district, near Vadodara in Gujarat, along with patients in the COVID-19 Care Centre in Kasargode district in Kerala.

United Nations SDGs

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  Over 20 families from ‘Maar’ community in Assam provided with essential items

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  • ~5000 lives impacted with state-of-the-art ambulance
  • 100 villages touched with positive healthcare
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  28.5 ckm of biodiversity preserved

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  1.5 Lakh lives impacted with reliable and quality power

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  1,700 schools under the umbrella of EdIndia Foundation, changing lives

BUILDING A BETTER TOMORROW WITH EDINDIA

We strongly believe that children are budding agents of change and nurturing our young talent is key to empowering humanity. To this end, we support EdIndia, a social impact start-up that leverages technology and data analytics to create innovative solutions that improve the quality of education at scale. The non-profit is active across Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Tripura, with more than 50,000 teachers and 6 Lakh students under its wing.

Currently, it drives three major projects—Pragyan, Nirnay and Teachable—that are focused on building capacity and capability, enriching learning content, enhancing learning environments, sharpening technological readiness and enabling data-driven objective assessments of student performance.

EdIndia is working on mobile apps for its projects and their availability across regional languages. The start-up is partnering with established players in the education technology space, like Google India, Diksha and TheTeacherApp, to widen the reach and impact of its projects.

ENSURING RELIABLE POWER WHILE PRESERVING BIODIVERSITY

At Sterlite Power, we are committed to the pursuit of global environmental sustainability. In one of our recent projects, we evacuated power optimally from the Kundah Hydro Power Station, at an elevation of 2,876 feet. A vital part of the transmission line passed through the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, a biodiversity hotspot. This line was unable to carry the required load of the evacuated power. Moreover, the presence of an active elephant corridor in the reserve was one of the main aspects to be considered during project planning and execution. We wanted to make sure that our project operations did not disrupt wildlife movement in the area.

We implemented a new low-sag, high-performance conductor, which made the line safer from the prospect of electrocution. We ensured completion of the work, traversing the 28.5 ckm in the biodiversity reserve, in just 25 shutdown days. To ensure that the project caused no harm to the active elephant corridor, we sought the guidance of tribal communities on how to best navigate the forest and track the movement of wild elephants. Pathways leading to watering holes were mapped and special care was taken to avoid parking vehicles or piling any construction material near those areas. Due care was taken to avoid any destruction to the greenery and vegetation. All movement during the day was conducted with minimal noise and communication was carried out through radio. The sustainable planning and execution of this project not only helped in positively impacting 1.5 Lakh lives in the Coimbatore-Tirupur region with the provision of reliable and quality power, but is also a perfect example of harmonious co-existence between human development and environment.