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    Healthcare, Hygiene & Sanitation

    Health Camp and financial aid to the poor and needy patients

    Free Health Check-up and Treatment Camps are organized in the neighbouring villages of our different plants through Mobile Medical Units and hospitals/clinics OPD

    These camps, provide necessary preventive healthcare services, educate the communities on preventive care and nutritional diets.

    Also provide financial aid to the needy patients for better healthcare.

    In FY 2020-21, more than 18,791 villagers located in the vicinity of our plants in six States, were treated in these Camps

    Combating COVID-19

    Our units have distributed masks, personal protective equipment, sanitizers, ventilators, oxygen concentrators and other essential medical supplies and carried out mass sanitisation drives, providing meals, ration supplies and other essentials to feed the vulnerable communities, migrants and casual labourers and also organised awareness campaigns, supporting the Government’s COVID-19 vaccination Programme. Under this programme, we have supported more than 1,00,000 villagers in an around our areas.

    Mother & Child Health Care Programme

    Preventive & curative health services like institutional delivery, child vaccination, Pratham Aahar, spot-feeding practice and ante-natal & post-natal care, as well as malnourished childcare are provided to mothers and children in villages of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.

    We also focus on strengthening the Anganwadi & Asha Centres. Fourteen health entrepreneurs (Arogya Sakhi) are deployed in 12 villages at Satna, Maihar and Chittorgarh.

    More than 3,000 persons benefitted from these activities.

    Free Eye Check-up Camps

    Free eye camps are organized in remote villages, where specialists examine patients and medicine, spectacles and surgery are provided. A total of 7,611 elderly and needy persons have been treated in West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh & Rajsthan in FY: 2020-21

    Provision of drinking water facilities in Govt. Hospitals

    Our units have implemented drinking water supply schemes for the staff, patients and patient relatives in Government hospitals of MP, UP & Maharashtra.

    The Raebareli unit has set up one RO filter-cum-water cooler tank at the district hospital, Raebareli.

    The Butibori unit, has set up one water cooler in the Government hospital.

    The Mukutban unit has set up two ‘Water ATM’ units in neighbouring villages.

    General Care, Personal Hygiene & Sanitation

    The Butibori Cement Unit at Nagpur organized a filariasis awareness pogramme. In 35 villages in collaboration with the Govt. Hospital, Takalghat, Butibori in 2021

    After the outbreak of COVID-19, masks and soaps were distributed and awareness drives were undertaken at Nagpur district, Maharashtra and Chittorgarh, Rajasthan.

    The programme covered 15 villages of Maharashtra and Rajasthan.

    During the winter, our units distributed more than 1,500 blankets in slums of Durgapur city & Kundanganj, UP.

    Under the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), 177 individual toilets were constructed in villages of Uttar Pradesh & Madhya Pradesh

    Education

    Our education projects helped 11,641 students of Government in 2020-21

    Scholarship

    The Priyamvada Birla & The Jaswant Singh Lodha Scholarship are awarded every year to meritorious students belonging to the low-income group.

    Thirty students get INR 24,000/- each annually towards meeting their educational expenses.

    Maihar & Mukutban units also have scholarship schemes for the meritorious and poor, benefitting more than 250 students.

    Smart Class

    TSmart class technology is set up in Government schools, with capacity-building programmes for teachers to run the system. Annual maintenance is provided to these schools. Smart classes benefitted more than 1,267 students in FY 20-21

    Primary School, Durgapur

    Our Durgapur unit has been running a co-ed primary school (both Hindi & Bengali medium) for poor children since 1990. It provides free education, books and uniform to its students.

    The school has its own campus, library, computer lab. & playground.

    In 2020-21, the school had 360 students

    Infrastructure Support to Govt Schools

    For improving the quality of education and reducing the dropout rate, the school infrastructure was upgraded by providing furniture, science lab equipment, electrification, repairing & painting, drinking water and sports facilities

    More than 3,276 students got benefitted in Government schools of Satna – Madhya Pradesh, Raebareli & Kundanganj – Uttar Pradesh, Durgapur – West Bengal and Chanderia – Rajasthan.

    To promote green energy and child education, the Maihar unit has provided all 10th class appearing girl students with solar power facilities. A total of 132 students were benefitted.

    Better health & hygiene of the students (construction of school toilets and installation of sanitary napkin incinerators)

    For better health & hygiene of the students, school toilets (both boys & girls) with overhead water tank facilities are set up/repaired/renovated in Government schools of villages near our plants.

    Drinking water facilities with hand washing stations are set up in the school premises and water coolers for safe and clean drinking.

    Incinerators for sanitary napkin are set up in schools.

    More than 1,862 students from different Government schools have benefitted.