CSR Newsletter from L&T Construction 2012 : October | November | December - Volume 5

Editor’s Note

On a lovely Sunday morning, while many of us had an extended sleep fol-lowed by an elaborate menu cooking in the kitchen and completing those long pend-ing chores in the household, as many as 60 colleagues ran for a cause flying the L&T flag high at the Wipro Chen-nai Marathon held on 2nd December. The marathon saw a turnout of more than 5000 participants with more than 60 dedicated and pas-sionate runners from L&T. Four events were held on that day –the full marathon (42.2 kms), half marathon (21.1 kms), 10 km-marathon and a special children’s run.

Mr.Aravind Kumar, Ex-ecutive HR (B&F IC) partici-pated in the full marathon (42.2km) while 13 L&Tites ran in the half marathon and the rest participated in the 10 kilometer category. All of them completed their run successfully.

The participants from L&T started running regu-

larly after the CTC marathon that was held in Sholinganal-lur on 5th October. “We run at least 4 to 5 days a week and most of us run in the campus at 5 AM” says an ac-tive runner who practices in our campus.

Some of the regular run-ners are Mr. P. Chandramo-han- Resource Head (MMH IC), Mr. B. Murugesan, Head- BSCC, (B&F IC), Mr. K. Senthilkumar - Sr. Manag-er (QA/QC) from MMHIC, Mr. Sriram.V (MMH IC),

60 runners from L&T thrilled by their achievement at the Wipro Chennai Marathon – a CSR Run…

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Blood Donation

Education

Tree Plantation

L&Teering

Mr. Nandagopal K (Infra IC) and Mr.Aravind Kumar (B&F IC). Running in our campus is spearheaded by Mr. P. Chandramohan- Re-source Head (MMH IC) who has been a role model and a source of inspiration to all the runners in displaying commitment, willpower and determination.

The running fever gripped L&Tites earlier this year and from then on the team has been practicing reg-ularly and participated in the 10*10 initiative by Chennai Runners. 10*10 involves com-pleting 10kms for 10 days consecutively and 4 L&Tites from our campus completed this initiative and Mr. Chan-dramohan did it twice.

The run was organized by the United Way Chennai and the proceeds of Rs.2 lacs for the Corporate Challenge Run was for the benefit of Isha Vidya Project.

Greetings for a Great 2013!We should strive to make this 2013, as a Year of ‘Giving’

and ‘Reaching Out’, with thrust on Safety Health & Environment, not only within our project locations/units and place of work, but embracing the Society at large.

This issue - 5th Volume - marks the completion of the 1st Year of the ‘Reaching Out’ . The Tabloid has already made its impact… with the ABCI Award and winning accolades of our leaders, veterans, external target audience and the L&T-ites alike.

While every act of your CSR efforts serve the Community, Society and the larger L&T family [including the worker-community], your fine individual report on every such CSR activity comes to us …. as droplets every day. Consequently, our CCD team collates these reports and present these as ‘trickling rivulets of CSR’ --- through the every-day E-Zine flashes; out to all mail-users across L&T Construction in India and beyond.

At the end of every quarter, these E-Zine flashes are once again collated, edited / designed and presented in the form of an impressive ‘Reaching Out’ Tabloid. We are able to see how every drop of our CSI efforts find its way through as small rivulets and now flow as a ‘perennial river of CSR’! [This is also hosted on http://www.lntecc.com/homepage/common/reachingout.htm ]

The sheer number of programmes / events and in its varieties of our ‘Giving’ spread across hundreds of our sites and multiple locations…… would seem stunning even to us, leave alone any external stake-holders who get to seeing our impressive ‘Reaching Out’. This would well be a case-history in Communications & CSR! There cannot be another organization that has such a vast geographic spread and reports its CSR programmes in a lucid manner such as this ‘Reaching Out’, quarter after quarter! To this very reason, we must pat on our back for the very act of giving and its reporting too; and in all humility, must continue to be of use to the societal needs and causes.

While we are well-aligned to Corporate Guidelines of CSR core-programmes, many of us are also well-directed to connecting with the local needs of the community where we operate. These programmes would seem unique in its own way with the beneficiaries feeling elated at an organization that connects itself with the needs of the community and delivering tailor-made programmes.

Let us remember and relate with this quote of Chanakya [370 – 283 BC]…”Birds do not Build its Nest on Trees that do not Bear Fruits!”

With such strong commitment to the Society/Stakeholders and with an engaging L&Teering, the going in 2013 at L&T Construction, is sure to get better; even on the CSR front.

267 units of blood donated by BTTL Tezpur site

Blood Donation Camp was organized on 29th Sep-tember at BTTL – Tezpur, Assam. A thirteen mem-ber medical team from

Kanakalata State Civil Hos-pital, Assam conducted this programme. 67 units of blood was collected from this camp.

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A Blood Donation Camp was organised by Badarpur- Faridabad Elevated Viaduct Corridor Project of DMRC on the event of World Trau-ma Day on 17th October in association with Red Cross Society and BK Hospital Faridabad. Workers and En-gineers enthusiastically par-ticipated in the camp. Mr. M.K Singh- Cluster Safety Head, Mr. E Sridharan and

Badarpur - Faridabad Elevated Viaduct Corridor Project team donates 52 units of blood

Mr. D.K. Sharma- Pro-ject Managers also par-ticipated in this camp. 52 units of blood was collected.

BESCOM DAS Project Bangalore donates 28 units of blood

BESCOM DAS Project, Bangalore (Chennai Clus-ter of PT&D IC) conducted a Blood Donation Camp in association with Indian Red Cross Society on 19th Octo-ber. Staff and supervisors from BESCOM DAS Project and Bangalore Office par-ticipated in the camp and collected 28 units of blood. Indian Red Cross Society has issued a certificate of appre-ciation for the efforts of the site team.

csti trainees donate 39 units at ahmedabad

CSTI Bengaluru donates 53 units to Indian Red Cross Society

Construction Skills Train-ing Institute, Ahmedabad conducted a blood donation camp on 20th October in asso-ciation with Indian Red Cross society. 39 units of blood was

A voluntary Blood Dona-tion Camp was organised on 22nd December at the Con-struction Skills Training Insti-tute (CSTI), Attibele Bengalu-ru in association with Indian Red Cross Society – (Karnata-ka State Branch). CSTI train-

donated by the trainees and staff. An appreciation letter along with memento has been awarded by Ahmedabad Red Cross Society to CSTI for this noble gesture.

ees and staff actively partici-pated in this camp and over 53 units of blood was collect-ed. As an appreciation to the commendable effort, Indian Red Cross Society presented a certificate of appreciation to the proud CSTI team.

Blood donation camp at L&T OMAN LLC receives an overwhelming response from employees with a collection of 111 units

Larsen & Toubro (Oman) LLC organized a blood do-nation camp at LTO corpo-rate office on 30th December 2012. The event was con-ducted in association with Ministry of Health, Sultanate of Oman and the camp re-ceived an overwhelming re-sponse from employees. L&T Oman has been organising

camps since 2006 and in this camp, a total of 111 employ-ees donated blood. Every do-nor donated approximately 450ml of blood after passing through preliminary medical tests stipulated by the Minis-try of Health.

Sharing the spirit of do-nors, Mr. P R Surendhra Babu, Chief Executive, L&T

Oman said that Blood do-nation is a noble cause and every blood donor contrib-utes towards community de-velopment. He thanked the donors for their voluntary participation and expressed L&T Oman’s solidarity to associate with Ministry of Health for such initiatives in the near future.

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csti cuttack donates 97 units of blood

L&T Construction Skills Training Institute, Cut-tack, Odisha organized two Voluntary Blood Donation Camps on 10th October and 18th December in associa-

tion with Central Red Cross Blood Bank of Indian Red Cross Society, Odisha State Branch. 97 units of blood was donated by the CSTI trainees

37 units of blood collected at CTTL in Lions Blood Bank’s Mobile Van

A Blood Donation Camp was organised at the Toll Plaza of L&T Chennai Tada Tollway Project on 30th Sep-tember in association with Lions Blood Bank Chennai.

Hyderabad Metro Rail Project contributes 78 units to Indian Red Cross Society

Hyderabad Metro Rail Project – Uppal Depot con-ducted a Blood Donation Camp on 9th October in as-sociation with Indian Red Cross Society. 78 staff and workmen donated blood.

Joda & Noamundi sites donate 178 units of blood

MMH IC Jamshedpur organized a Blood Donation Camp in association with Red Cross Society at Joda & Noamundi Sites.

The camp was inaugu-rated by Mr. Ch Ravidranath Prasad at Joda on 19th Octo-ber and at Noamundi on 20th

October. Mr.Madhul Sharan, Mr.Ajoy Gangopadhyay, Mr.P R Das, Mr. P K Mohan-ty, Mr.R R Padhy, Mr. K Bal-ram, Mr. Arjun Munda along with other safety staff partic-ipated in this camp. Total 178 units (Joda: 75, Noamundi: 103) of blood was collected.

and the staff. A memento and an appreciation letter was presented to CSTI Cuttack in appreciation of organizing the camp.

The mobile van of Lions’ Blood Bank was deployed at the Toll Plaza between 10 am and 2 pm and over 37 units of blood was collected dur-ing this camp.

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Kishangarh-Udaipur-Ahmedabad Road Project donates 35 units to Govt. Hospital

A blood donation camp was organized at the Project Base Camp of Kishangarh-Udaipur-Ahmedabad Road Project (Package III & IV) on 5th October in association with Maharana Bhupal Gov-ernment Hospital, Udaipur. Over 35 unit of blood was collected during this camp. Both staff & workers turned out willingly in this volun-tary blood donation camp.

Blood donation camp at Metro Tunneling project Delhi collects 54 units

A Blood Donation Camp was organized by Mr S.K.Gupta (Dy Project Lead-er) & Team at Metro Tun-neling Delhi L&T SUCG JV

DMRC Project Delhi on 1st December. A team from In-dian Red Cross Society facili-tated the process and around 54 staff and workmen donat-ed blood.

blood donation camp at ompl mangalore donates 100 units

As a part of L&T’s Plati-num Jubilee Year initiative, a blood donation camp was organized on 31st October at OMPL project site, Manga-lore in association with Wen-lock Govt Hospital.

Mr. G Ganapathy, Project Manager of MRPL & OMPL Project, Mangalore presided

sWd Jabalpur project site collects 20 units of blood

Voluntary blood dona-tion camp was organized at SWD Jabalpur Project site

over the camp. L&T staff and workmen from OMPL & MRPL-PH III project par-ticipated enthusiastically in this camp and donated 100 units of blood. This initiative was appreciated by the Chief Guest Shri S. S. Naik, Chief (Utilities & Offsite), OMPL.

on 22nd September in asso-ciation with Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical Col-

lege. Over 20 units of blood was collected from this camp.

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20 donors at Pondy Works participate in a blood donation programme

Pondy Works organized a Blood Donation Camp on 25th November in as-sociation with St.Thomas Catholic Welfare Society at St.Bernard’s Chapel premis-es, Pondicherry and around 20 people donated blood.

The chief guest Dr.K.V..Raman,Director, Health & Family Welfare Department, Government of Pondicherry inaugurated the camp. He appreciated the donors for

the voluntary contribution despite the prevailing Den-gue alarms. He appreciated L&T for the efforts taken in conducting this programme. This function was facili-

tated by Works Mangers Mr.V.Ganesh TLT&RM, M r . R . N a r a y a n a s w a m y , FWTS and Mr. R. Rajagopa-lan, Manager Administra-tion.

321 units collected at Tata Steel Projects

As a part of the Platinum Jubilee Year initiative TATA STEEL Projects site organ-ized a Blood Donation camp on 13th October.

Mrs. Surekha Nerurkar - Chairperson Red Cross society and wife of Mr. H M Nerurakar (MD-TATA STEEL) along with Mrs. Na-lini Ramamurthy – Secretary – Red Cross Society) graced this camp.

Mr. S Mohan – Cluster Accounts & Admin Manager - Jamshedpur and Mr. Probal

Gosh - Chief – CAPL Pro-jects also participated in this event. The staff and work-men came forward in large numbers to donate blood and over 321 units was col-lected.

Blood Donation Camp at the Panskura - Kharagpur RC Project - 52 units collected

A Blood Donation Camp was organized at the Pan-skura - Kharagpur 3rd Line RC Project on 15th October. The Project Manager Mr. L.D. Badgayan flagged off this initiative and 52 units of blood was donated.

csti panvel donates 70 units to help those affected with dengue

The Construction Skills Training Institute, Panvel organized a blood donation camp in association with the Indian Red Cross society Mumbai on 29th Oct. Over 70 units of blood was collect-ed from this camp. The staff

and trainees of CSTI Panvel enthusiastically participat-ed in this programme. The blood collected is said to be used to treat those affected with Dengue in Mumbai by extracting the platelets.

It has been a practice at CSTI Panvel to organized such camps once in a quar-ter and till date 589 units of blood has been collected and donated to Indian Red Cross Society, Mumbai ever since the drive started last year.

blood donation and medical camp at silvassaThe staff at 400/220KV

GIS S/S at Kala (new) at DNH, Silvassa organized a Health Check-up and Blood Donation Camp on 4th De-cember. This programme was inaugurated by Dr. M.V. Ghodiya- Health Director (Dadra & Nagar Haveli) and Mr. M.Gochhayat (Project

Co-ordinator, Ahmedabad) Mr. Sanjay Mishra (As-

sistant Construction Man-ager), Mr. Rakesh Saxena (Officer-IR), Mr. Vijay Pratap Kushwaha (Engineer- EHS), Dr. Ganesh Varnekar, Medical In-charge (Physi-cal Health Centre, Khan-vel) & Dr. Rajeshkumar D.

Shah from Red Cross Soci-ety along with a team of 29 medical and para-medical professionals and Doctors fa-cilitated this programme

The camp included eye checkup, dental checkup, physical health examination along with a blood donation drive.

Over 456 workmen, vil-lagers and school children benefited from this camp and over 71 units of blood was donated. The team also donated five Hearing Devic-es and two Walking Sticks to disabled people. Medicines were also given to the needy free of cost.

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147 workmen at SAIL-ISP Burnpur benefit from a health camp

SAIL-ISP Burnpur Project site organized a health camp on 21st September. Over 147 workmen were screened for general fitness and routine physical examination during this programme.

215 workmen immunized at Olympia Grande Housing Project

Olympia Grande Hous-ing Project organized a mass inoculation programme on 6th October. This pro-gramme was conducted at site to immunize the work-men with the basic Tetanus

injection to prevent any in-fection that may take place during work.

Over 215 workmen bene-fited during this programme.

250 beneficiaries at a health camp organized by DMRC site

On World Heart Day, the staff at DMRC CC-05 Project organized a Health camp for all the staff and workmen at site. This medical camp in-cluded Blood Pressure check, ECG, Height, Weight, Dental screening etc.

The camp was held on two days, 28th and 29th Sep-tember and over 250 partici-pants benefited from this ini-tiative.

Senior executives from DMRC & L&T participated in this health initiative.

300 workmen & staff benefit from an eye camp at MIAL

A free eye checkup camp for the staff and workmen at MIAL was organized on 23rd and 24th November in asso-ciation with Vision Founda-tion of India (Bombay Eye Hospital).

More than 300 staff and workmen underwent eye screening in the two day camp.

200 workmen screened at 400 kV D/C PATL Hoshiarpur project

400 kV D/C PATL Ho-shiarpur Project site organ-ized a health camp for the workmen on 2nd October. General health examination,

blood investigations and blood pressure tests were conducted during this camp and over 200 workmen ben-efited from this programme.

584 patients screened at an eye camp organized by Palacode Hogenakkal Project team

An Eye Camp was con-ducted at Palacode – Ho-genakkal Project, W&S SBG Bangalore Cluster on 25th November in association with Arvind Eye Hospital Madurai and Lions Club. The camp was inaugurated by Mr. PonKumar, CEO - SSA, Krishnagiri District.

584 patients were screened during this pro-gramme with 152 recom-mended for a free cataract surgery and 113 patients have been provided free spectacles.

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693 screened at a massive health camp organized by RVA LDA Project team

On 3rd December, the staff at RVA-LDA Pro-ject Lucknow organized a Mega Health Camp at Ro-hini Apartment in associa-tion with Dr. Rammanohar Lohiya Hospital. The event was inaugurated by Mr. A.V. Giri (Project Manager) and Mr. Vishal Maheshwari (Accounts & Admin Head). Various tests including ECG, Blood Pressure, Sugar, Blood Group screening etc were

conducted along with regu-lar physical examination.

Free medicines were also distributed to the workmen. Dengue and Aids awareness sessions were conducted by Dr Anil Kumar along with distribution of pamphlets to the participants. 693 staff and workmen participated in this massive health camp includ-ing staff from Dhenumati and Himalaya Projects.

1200 workmen benefit from World Trauma Day awareness programme at HMRP

On 17th October, Hy-derabad Metro Rail Pro-ject observed International World Trauma Day at three prominent site locations - P.C. Yard Uppal, Uppal Depot and Miyapur Depot. The significance of World Trauma Day was reiterated in view of the astounding attention that we pay in pre-hospital care in the form of effective first-aid responsive-ness.

Mr.C.Sankaral ingam, Task Force Leader Head & Vice-President, Mr.S. Arunakumar, Dy. Project

Director, Mr.C. Vasudev, Head-Commercial Services, Mr. Iain Carter, Head-EHS, Mr. A.H. Khan, Project Man-ager P.C.Yard Uppal, Mr. K.Srinivasa Reddy, Project Manager Uppal Depot, Mr. H S P Shukla, Project Man-ager Miyapur Depot, Mr. ISR Rao, Accounts & Admin Manager for Stations & De-pots and Mr. Mithra, EHS Manager graced the occa-sion and interacted with the participants including staff, workmen and consultants.

A renowned faculty and Orthopaedic super special-

ist Dr. Sanjay.V. Tapadia. M.B.B.S.,M.S., M.ch, Senior most faculty from St. John’s Ambulance Dr. Sawthade-ker. M.B.B.S., Dr. Bharath Kumar from Sankhya Hos-pital along with the in-house medical consultant Dr. P. Karunaker Rao emphasised on the fact that skilled first aid measures, when applied to a critically injured victim, can save life. Practical demo sessions were also organ-ized. Around 1200 staff and workforce attended the pro-gram and benefited to a great extent.

1500 workmen undergo health screening at Hcl project sholinganallur

A health camp was or-ganized at HCL Project for the workmen, on 17th Octo-ber. During the camp around 1500 workmen benefited from dental screening, blood sugar & blood pressure test-ing, general health and fit-

ness screening.Clients and consultants

participated in the camp along with the Project Man-ager Mr. S. Arunkumar, Ac-cts Manager Mr.R. Chan-drasekar and EHS Incharge Mr. V. Satish.

AIIMS hospital project team constructs OPD centre to serve the poor patients

As a part of organiza-tion’s CSR efforts, L&T staff at AIIMS Hospital project, Bhubaneswar have con-structed an Out Patient Department ( OPD ) for All India Institute of Medi-cal Science , Bhubaneswar, which is located in close proximity to the project site.

Comprehensive eye screening camp for 184 workmen at Nashik Elevated Corridor Project

Nashik Elevated Corridor Project organised a compre-hensive eye camp for work-men and staff on 28th Sep-tember. The eye tests were conducted by experienced Ophthalmologists from Vasan Eye Care, Nashik. A total of 184 staff and work-men benefited from this pro-gramme.

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Dengue Awareness Camp at Hotel Westin Project benefits 200 people

On 14th October, a Den-gue Awareness Camp was organized at the 5 Star Hotel Westin Project, Sec-32, Noida in association with Sunrise Health Awareness. The Pro-ject Manager Mr. Vikas Mat-too along with the site team flagged off this camp and over 200 workmen benefited from this camp.

100 beneficiaries at the Dental & Eye camp held at BIAL

A free Dental & Eye Check-up was organized at the BIAL site on 26th Oct. This camp was inaugurated by Mr. K.N.Nagendra (JGM-CIVIL) and over 100 staff and workmen were screened during this programme.

Health awareness lecture organized at tapovan Vishnugad Hydel site

To promote health aware-ness among the staff and their family members, a programme was organized at the staff recreation centre Ravigram, Tapovan Project site on 12th December.

Dr. Sreekanth Ramachan-dran who is the son of Mr. M.V.Ramachandran, Project Director, Tapovan Vishnu-gad Hydel Site addressed the gathering.

The session included Life-style diseases i.e. cardio vas-cular disease, hypertension, diabetes and its prevention. Breast cancer, oral cancer and its prevention, Child health care, healthy food habits etc were told to the participants. Over 45 people befitted from this programme.

Health screening for 150 workmen at HMR Project Hyderabad

A health check-up was or-ganised for the workmen at Uppal PC Yard, Hyderabad Metro Rail project, Hy-derabad. Over 150 workmen in the workmen colony were screened for general health and fitness and were advised on their health issues during this programme.

Kingfisher Towers Project conducts eye and dental screening for 74 staff

Kingfisher Towers Pro-ject organized an Eye check up and Dental camp on 16th October at Bengaluru. The

camp was conducted by Vasan Eye Care and over 74 staff and workmen benefited from this programme.

120 workmen at Varanasi Kanpur tl project vaccinated

A free medical camp was organized at Varanasi Kan-pur TL project site on 30th September. Staff and work-men participated in this pro-gramme and various tests in-cluding blood sugar and BP were conducted. The tetanus vaccine was given to work-men as a preventive meas-ure. Over 120 people ben-efited from this programme.

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Medical camp at JIPMER Phase-II Project

On 5th October, B&F ICs’ BAJSS-TI Project and PIMS jointly organized a Medical camp at JIPMER Phase-II Project, Puducherry. This is the tenth medical camp or-ganized by the site team and over 140 people benefited from this programme.

Medical camp for 162 migrant workmen at Hyper Mart site Alappuzha

On 23rd November, the District Labour Department and District Medical Office of Alappuzha District, Gov-ernment of Kerala conducted a Medical camp for migrant workmen at Hyper Mart site, Alappuzha. The site team made all the arrangements for this camp. General health screening, blood screening, AIDS counseling, derma-tological testing and dis-tribution of free medicines were conducted in this pro-gramme. Mr. Basheer- Local Municipal Counselor, M r . Muraleedharan Pillai - DMO, Mr. K.G.Mohanachandran Nair- DLO (G), Mr. S . Prasannan- DLO (E),Mrs. Deepa Sivadasan - DEO (Workers Welfare Board), Mr. K N Ramesh - ALO and Mr. P K Chinmayanandan- ALO participated in this programme. The L&T team

comprising of Mr. P Ramku-mar, Project Manager, Mr. Bennichan K Thomas, Site Accountant and Mr. S Rama-moorthy, Asst. Manager (IR) coordinated the event suc-cessfully. Over 162 workmen benefited from this medical camp.

Over 100 workmen undergo health screening at VIP Flyover Project in Kolkata

A two day health camp was organized at the VIP Flyover Project in Kolkata. General health and fitness of the workmen was examined

Over 155 staff and workmen undergo health screening at Olympia Grande Housing Project

A Health Camp was or-ganized at Olympia Grande Housing Project, Chennai on 20th November and the camp was inaugurated by the Deputy Project Man-ager Mr. S Ganesan, and Accounts Manager Mr. A B Ramakrishnan.

155 workmen, staff and the Client’s team benefited from the Health Camp or-ganized in association with Sree Balaji Medical College & Hospital. A team of 15 Doctors (General Medicine, ENT, Ophthalmology, Der-

during this two day camp held on 10th and 12th Octo-ber. Over 100 workmen ben-efited from this programme.

matology and Orthopedic) headed by the Chief Doctor Dr. S Iqbal Sultan examined

the patients. Free Diabetic Detection and BP testing was also done.

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We are committed to ‘Getting to Zero’ L&T Constructions sites & office establishments take proactive measures for HIV / AIDS prevention

World AIDS day – 1st December was ob-serves at HMRL project ( U p p a l & C h i n t a l c a s t i n g yard), more than 500 work-men actively participated and benefited from the awareness program.

At the 400/220/66 kV GIS Substation at Harsh Vi-har Delhi, Mr. S.K. Upad-hyay (Project Manager), Mr. Yahpal Shrma (Planning Manager), Mr. KM Niraw (Asst Manager Electrical) & Mr. Rajkumar Kushwaha (Sr.

Engineer EHS) addressed the gathering and created awareness. 95 Workmen along with Staff, Supervisor & Subcontractors attended & benefited from this pro-gramme.

Godrej Prakriti Project team organized an AIDS Awareness Programme on 1st December at site. Dr. D.L. Dutta was the faculty for this programme.

MIAL Project organized an HIV/AIDS awareness programme for workmen. 350 workmen participated in this awareness drive. A lecture by Dr. Umesh Vel-

lapure was held and this programme not only helped in generating awareness among the workmen but also cleared many myths about the disease.

A mega event was organ-ized at Badarpur-Faridabad Elevated Corridor Project of DMRC on World AIDS Day in association with NAZ Foundation a NGO work-ing on AIDS awareness. The program began with a open discussion on AIDS. A magic show and a game show were also conducted as a method

of spreading the knowledge among workmen. A movie on AIDS was screened for the participants and the mes-sage was clearly communi-cated to all.

2000 workmen par-ticipated in the awareness programmes held at Up-pal Depot, Uppal PC Yard, Miyapur Depot and Balana-

gar PC Yard of Hyderabad Metro Rail Project. The event included a lecture by a Doc-tor on AIDS Awareness, a Quiz for the workmen and

prizes were given to those who answered the questions. Senior Managers & Project Heads also participated in this awareness drive.

At DMRC CMC-1 project an awareness programme on HIV-AIDS was conduct-ed comprising of display of poster, banners and an audio-visual show for work-men and staff at site.

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Registration camp for workmen welfare scheme at Metro Tunnelling project Delhi

A camp for registering all the site workers entitling them to the various wel-fare schemes facilitated by the government was held at MTD L&T SUCG JV DMRC Project on 13th December.

This programme was in-augurated by Mr Karan sin-gh (Executive Director HR) DMRC, Mr Salim Ahmad

(Dy Chief Engineer) DMRC and Mr N.L. Kanojia Dy La-bour Commissioner Govt. of NCT Delhi.

Mr Shen Ching Ming (Pro-ject Leader), Mr S.K.Gupta (Dy Project Leader), Mr Su-kumar Kundu (Commercial Leader), Mr Suresh Kumar (Chief SHE Manager) and Mr L.C.Tripathi (Asst Man-

ager IR) addressed the work-men about the benefits of the scheme ‘Registration of Building Workers as Benefi-ciaries’ and encouraged them to get registered with Delhi Building and Other Construc-tion Workers Welfare Board.

Over 350 workmen got themselves registered during this camp.

On World Aids Day, an awareness programme was organized at the project sites of 2x660MW STPP at Mauda Ph-II, Nagpur. Over 270 workmen participated in this programme and were

educated about the causes of HIV infection and the vari-ous preventive measures. Mr. Mrunal Yadav, Project coordinator from Sahyadri Foundation, Nagpur briefed the workers about facts &

figures of HIV/ AIDS infec-tion in India. Mr. Vikas Pa-til (Construction Managers) and Mr. Partho Kumar Pod-dar (Supervisor EHS) along with supporting staff fa-cilitated this awareness pro-gramme.

An HIV/ Aids & Can-cer Awareness programme was organized at the project site of 400/220KV GIS S/S at KALA, Silvasa. Over 130 workmen & villagers were educated about the causes of Cancer and HIV infection and the various preventive

measures. Mr. Sanjay Mishra (Assistant Construction Manager), Mr. Rakesh Saxe-na (Officer-IR) and Mr. Vijay Pratap Kushwaha (Engineer- EHS) along with supporting staff facilitated this aware-ness programme.

170 workmen educated on AIDS prevention at JSW Project Site

JSW Project Site – Bel-lary organized an AIDS Awareness Programme on 15th December for the 170 workmen and driv-ers at site. The awareness program was conducted by Nitya Jeevana, an NGO from Bellary. The pro-gramme was inaugurated by the Project Manager Mr R Umasathiyan along

with the Project Account-ant Mr M Ranganathan and EHS In charge Mr C Anna-durai.

The workmen were edu-cated on various modes of HIV infection and the ways and modes of preventing AIDS. Two short films were screened for the workmen emphasizing on Aids Aware-ness.

On 12th December, the NTPL Tuticorin site or-ganized an AIDS aware-ness programme at site along with the Depart-ment of AIDS Prevention & Control Unit – Tuticor-in. Blood screening was done for the 600 workmen and a street play was or-ganized for their better understanding.

600 workmen undergo HIV screening at NTPL Tuticorin site

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Medical camp for 300 workmen at Tata Steel Project Site

Tata Steel Project site or-ganized a free medical camp for workmen from 10th De-cember to 19th December at JACAPL Project site.

Over 300 workmen were screened for general health and fitness along with eye screening, by a team of doc-tors from Family Planning Association of India, Jam-shedpur.

The Medical camp was inaugurated by Mr.S. Mohan – Cluster Accounts & Ad-ministration Manager along with Dr. K.M.Gandhi – of FPAI.

L&T Steel Service Cen-tre in Chennai extended support to the Govern-ment Primary Hospital at Kelampakkam on 26th De-cember 2012.

Medical equipments including Weighing ma-chine, Height scale, Stand BP apparatus, Needle holder, Scalpel size, Bed sheets in cotton (green color), Pillow covers, Hb

steel service centre donates medical apparatus to Government primary Hospital

Testing kits, forceps etc were donated to the hos-pital by Mr. K. Muthaiyan Project Manager, TCS pro-ject and Mr.P.Ravikumar-Plant incharge –Steel Ser-vice Centre, Chennai.

This facility will ben-efit thousands of people who visit the hospital each day, in getting better medical services.

Free health check-up for 186 workmen at Vaishnavi Terraces Project

General Medical Check-up was conducted for the workmen at Vaishnavi Ter-races Project, Bengaluru on 30th December 2012. Over 186 workmen were screened in this Health camp.

pml (cHp) tiroda team conduct a health camp for 700 workmen

A Medical camp was or-ganized at APML CHP Ti-roda Project Site (BMH BU – ABCO) between 29th Octo-ber and 31st October, for the workmen. A team of three Doctors and two Techni-cians headed by Dr. Naren-dra Bakde - Central Hospital, Gondia conducted this medi-

cal camp. The team conduct-ed screening for Hyperten-sion, ENT etc and provided advice to those who needed the same.

Around 700 workmen participated in the Medical camp and the effort was well appreciated by the Clients and workmen.

13400 kV BGTL team creates awareness on education among three village primary schools

400 kV Barh – Gorakh-pur transmission line project (BGTL) organized an aware-ness programme on the im-portance of education at Kak-wal Primary School on 29th September. The site team reached out to three primary schools under Kakwal vil-lage panchayat and counse-led the children on pursuing their education seriously for

a better future. The Project Manager Mr. Debasis Ghosh & Mr. K K Patra, Project Ac-countant along with the site team donated School Bags, Pencil boxes, Registers & Pens to 200 students and Globes & abacus equipment to the three schools. The Block Education officer and Village Pradhan also attend-ed this programme.

ABRO extends support to mentally challenged children

ABRO has once again ex-tended support to the men-tally challenged children at a school in Ahmedabad by refurbishing the school and making arrangements for caring out vocational train-ing for the mentally retarded children and adults.

The school run by Samaj Utkarsh Trust in Ahmedabad started in 1990 and has achieved many rewards and recognitions for the good work done.

On 16th October, Mr. M. H. Desai - Former Vice Presi-dent inaugurated the facility amidst a humble gathering of our staff, students and parents of the school.

Mr. Desai was very touched and thanked the management for inviting him for such a noble & hon-ourable cause. Mr. S. H. Vora

– Regional Manager in his address mentioned about the challenges faced by the men-tally challenged and autistic kids and heaped praises on the school’s management for committing themselves in such a wonderful job.

The program concluded with lunch box distribution to the kids.

Counselling on road safety and personal hygiene organized at Kadampukur Primary School

As a part of the organiza-tion’s CSR efforts, the staff at CBD 1 to Rabindra Tir-tha Metro Viaduct Project-Kolkata, Infrastructure IC organized an awareness pro-gramme on road safety and personal hygiene at Kad-ampukur Primary School on 3rd December. The site team reached out to the primary school of Pathar Ghata Gram Panchayat and counselled the children on pursuing their education for a better future. The team also en-lighten them on various rules of road safety and taught them various tips regarding

personal hygiene for good health. The Project Manager Mr. Tapash Basu and CSR Co-ordinator Ms Chitrale-kha Nath along with the site team donated School Bags, Pencil boxes, Note books & Pens to 70 under privileged students.

Kpo project team donates school bags to 160 children

As a part of the organisa-tions Corporate Social ini-tiatives, the staff at KPO Pro-ject - MMH IC distributed school bags to 160 children of G.R.C.U.P School at G.R. Col-ony, PO-Gobarghati, Dist-Jajpur on 24th November. Mr Subrato Mukhopadhyay, Chief Project Controller, Mr Kartick Kumar Biswal, Sr. Manager (Accounts & Ad-ministration), Mr.Himadri Mookherjee & team partici-pated in this event.

Pondy Works donates Reverse Osmosis Plant to a Government hospital & school

The staff at Pondy Works reached out to the Govern-ment Hospital at Vanur, Vil-lupuram and Government Primary School at Karasur, Pondicherry by providing a Reverse Osmosis System Plant to the capacity of 25 LPH and value of Rs.12500.

The Government Hospi-tal, Vanur is situated at about 3kms away from Pondicher-ry Works with 20 inpatients and over 100 Out Patients per day. There was no hy-gienic drinking water facility for the patients. Therefore, L&T provided clean water facility for all the patients who visit the hospital.

Similarly, the Govern-ment Primary School, Karas-uris situated at 1.5kms away from Formwork Timber

Shop and 3km away from TLT, RM and Metal Shop. The 60 students studying in this school had no clean drinking water facility and thus L&T helped in purify-ing the water that was high in calcium content.

These two RO systems were handed over on 15th October. Both the Hospital and the School management were thankful to L&T for the effort.

Pondy Works has also planned to construct a toilet for the girl students of Gov-ernment Higher Secondary School. There are 246 girls and 260 boys studying in this rural school with no lavatory facility. The construction will be complete in few months.

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pt&d ic brings joy for 400 children through schools into smiles programme

On 11th November, PT&D IC Chennai distrib-uted school bags to 400 un-der privileged children of Panchayat & Corporation schools in Kancheepuram, Vellore, Thiruvannamalai and Thiruvallur Districts.

This reach out pro-gramme named ‘Schools into Smiles’ is a Children’s Day initiative organized by the District Rotaract Council 12-13 along with The Cherian Foundation.

Mr. R.Srinivasan VP & Head - Industrial Electrifica-tion, Mr.V.Thulasiram, Head Operations (Process Plants), Industrial Electrification and Mr Ananda Padmanaban (Chennai Cluster) participat-ed in this event held at Sir. MCTM Boys Hr. Sec. School, witnessed the children from various schools exhibit their talents in the form of cultural performances and distrib-uted the school bags to the children.

RE – Jalpaiguri Site supports 100 differently abled children

As a part of the organiza-tions CSR efforts, the staff at RE – Jalpaiguri Site distrib-uted 100 School Bag with Educational Kit to the dif-ferently abled children of Eklabya Children School for Disabled, Birpara, Jalpaiguri (WB). Program was inau-gurated by Mr. Bikash Das (Sabhapati, Madarihat Block, Jalpaiguri). The school bags were distributed to 95 Deaf & Dumb student and 5 Phys-ically Challenge students.

RSTPP 400 kV Switchyard Package Rihand supports village school

PBEL Site team supported Government Upper Primary School children

As a part of L&T’s CSR ef-forts, the Rihand Switchyard Package Stage III project site distributed learning aids and kitchen items to Sewa Samar-pan Sansthan Sewa Kunja

As part of the organisa-tions CSR efforts, the staff at PBEL Site, Hyderabad extended support to the Government Upper Primary School located near the site at Rajendra Nagar Mandal, Ranga Reddy District on 31st December 2012.

Mr. N.Sudhakar - Region-al Manager, Mr. B.Srinivasa Rao-Cluster Project Manag-er-B&F IC, Hyderabad Clus-ter along with the site team donated 200 Drinking Water

Water purification unit donated to Panchayat Union Primary School at Mettur

The staff at CWSS to Vel-lore Package-I project visited the Panchayat Union Prima-ry School, Kulamudyanur, Mettur on 25th October and studied the requirements of the school for the betterment of the children.

Following this visit, the site team realized that clean drinking water is the need of the hour and therefore dis-tributed RO Water Purifier to the school on 29th Novem-ber.

The Project Manager Mr.R K Subramani, Accounts Manager Mr.E V Rambabu along with the staff present-ed the purification unit to the school authorities.Around 45 students benefited through this initiative.

Ashram school in Chapkai village, Sonebhadra (UP). The site team distributed the items on 4th November and also carried out a plantation activity in the school premise.

Steel Glasses, Steel Plates, Note Books, Stationery items, Steel Water Drums, Tables & chairs along with sports items like football, carom board, chess, shuttle bats etc.

While the Government of Andhra Pradesh is provid-ing free mid-day meals to the government school stu-dents, it is mandatory for the children to bring their own utensils for the meal. Since most children cannot afford

the cost of these basic uten-sils, the site team fulfilled this basic requirement for the school children. Around 200 students studying in the school were benefited.

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nFl bhatinda site team reaches out to 113 gov-ernment school stu-dents in amargarh

The staff at NFL Bhatinda site distributed School bags and stationery items to the Government school students in Amargarh, Bhatinda on 13th December. Mr. San-jay Kumar Tyagi (PM-NFL Bhatinda) and team lead this initiative and over 113 students benefited from this programme.

The staff at Omkar Mal-ad Rehab & Sales project cel-ebrated the New Year with the under privileged infants and children of BAL VIKAS –Shishu Welfare Trust of In-dia, Malad-East in Mumbai.

The staff donated some very essential items to this

NFL Panipat site extended a helping hand to an orphanage in Panipat

NFL Panipat site ex-tended a helping hand to Bal Shramek Punarvas Ken-dra & Govt. Bal Anathalay (Govt. owned orphanage in Shiv Nagar in Jatal Village-Panipat, Haryana) on 21st Dec. The site team led by Mr. Manoj Kumar Tyagi (PM-E&I Work for NFL Panipat) and Mr. Tapas Kumar Band-hopadhyay (Accountant-NFL Panipat) distributed blankets, sweaters and shoes to the 76 children of the or-phanage in Panipat.

Children at Bal Vikas Shishu Welfare Trust enjoyed New Year with their extended familytrust including lactogen, atta, rice, oil, soap and few other groceries required for the month. The team also spent valuable time with the kids talking to them, play-ing with them and a small cake cutting ceremony fol-lowed.

CTS Sholinganallur presents 100 school bags to AdiDravidar School children

The staff at CTS Sholin-ganallur Site in Chennai supported the Government AdiDravidar School at Thi-

yur on 13th December. The site team along with the Pro-ject Manager Mr. A. Rajaram visited Adi Dravidar Ele-

mentary school and distrib-uted 100 bags to the students of the school.

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100 saplings planted at ntpc mauda site

NTPC Mauda Site Team organized a tree plantation activity on 30th November. Mr. Vikas Patil (Construc-tion Manager), Mr. Partho Kumar Poddar (Supervisor-

210 saplings planted at the Metro Rail projects in Kolkata

On 5th October, 210 sap-lings were planted at the Pre Cast Yard of Metro Rail pro-jects, Kolkata. Mr.Ashwani Kumar Choudhury – Pro-ject Manager (KMRL) and Mr.Arun Chatterjee - Precast in charge along with the staff and workmen of both pro-jects participated in the tree plantation drive.

Staff at Pondy Works involve in greening activityPondy Works constructed

a small garden in front of Vil-lianur Commune Panchayat Office in Pondicherry. This was inaugurated on 23rd No-vember by Mr.N.Rangasamy

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1150 saplings planted by the NTPL Tuticorin site team

The staff at NTPL Tuticor-in site organized a massive tree plantation programme on 10th December. The site team planted 1150 saplings at the Department of Techni-cal Education, Govt. Polytec-nic College, Tuticorin. NSS Volunteers from the college lead by the Principal Mr. V.Subbaraj planted the sap-lings at the college campus along with the L&T team in presence of Mr. S.Kumaresan – Project Director.

Tree Plantation at UMPP Sasan project siteAs an initiative to pre-

serve Mother Nature, the team of UMPP Sasan site planted 30 saplings in the premises on 19th Decem-ber. Mr. Kumar Shailendra – Head EHS PT&D and Mr. Krishna Kumar - CEHSM-DLCO also participated in

this drive along with the site team and joined hands in planting saplings. This program was inaugurated by Mr. Yogiraj Bharadwaj- PM-UMPP Sasanand fa-cilitated by Mr. Manas Ku-mar-EHS In charge-UMPP Sasan.

EHS) along with the staff and workmen participated actively in the plantation program. NTPC (Client) ap-preciated L&T’s contribution

& concern towards the envi-ronment and participated in this event too. Over 100 sap-lings were planted during this program.

honourable Chief Minister of Pondicherry who appre-ciated L&T’s good work. This function was facili-tated by the Works Man-gers Mr.V.Ganesh TLT &

RM, Mr.R.Narayanaswamy FWTS, Mr.Jaikumar, FWMS & Mr.K.Shanmugam, Man-ager Industrial Relations.

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25 saplings planted at Mahagenco-Amaravati site

On 30th November, PT&D IC’s 5 x 270 MW Am-ravati TPP Site Team organ-ized a tree plantation pro-gram in the workmen colony. Mr. Neeraj Kumar Gupta (Asst. EHS Officer), Mr. C B S Chauhan (Asst. Construction Manager), Mr. Laxmikanta-Sahu (Sr. Engineer QA/QC), Mr. Homesh Kumar Desh-mukh (Sr. Engineer-Electri-cal), Mr. Rajivanand Choud-hary (IR Supervisor), Mr. S

Ramakrishnan (Sr. Engineer-Electrical) along with the supporting staff and work-men participated in this pro-gramme. 25 saplings were planted during this program.

25 saplings planted at IOCL ParadeepAs a part of the organi-

zations CSR efforts, the staff at IE Job - IOCL, Paradeep Refinery Project, Odisha

organized a Tree Planta-tion activity on 25th No-vember. This plantation activity was inaugurated

by Mr.K.Venkateshan (In-strumentation In-Charge) and the team planted 25 sap-lings at the Zero Point Camp premises.

500 saplings planted at Rajpura site

The staff at MMH IC, BMH – Rajpura site organ-ized a Mass Plantation Drive on 18th December. Over 500 saplings were planted dur-ing this programme and the entire site team along with the Project Manager Mr. R.Shukla and Construction Manager Mr. S.Paramanik planted the saplings.

500 saplings planted at Utkal Alumina job site

As a community devel-opment initiative in this Platinum Jubilee year, Utkal Alumina job site, Rayagada organized a Tree plantation campaign on 5th October. Mr. T. Azaguvel, Cluster Head, Mr.P.S Pal, Project Co-ordinator (WET) and Mr. P. Tikadar, Project Co-ordina-tor (M&M), Kolkata planted the saplings along with Mr. A.K Dalui - PM, Mr. S.K Jena- I/C Planning, Mr. G. Behera- Manager (WET), Mr. P.K Das- Accounts & Admin, staff and workmen. 500 sap-lings were planted during this camp.

isp burnpur site team plants 50 saplings

On 26th November PT&D-IC, IE-Projects, ISP-Burnpur Site Team organ-ized a tree plantation pro-gram to achieve the CSR target set by the manage-ment. The program was in-augurated by Mr. Partho Das (MMH-IC) in the presence of Mr. Anandamoy Mandal, site-in-charge. Mr. Arindam Bhattacharjee, Mr. D Reju, Mr. Santosh Sharma along with the supporting staff and workmen participated actively in the plantation program. 50 saplings were planted during this program.

PAPTL site team plants 450 saplingsPugalur-Pandiankuppam

400KV TL site organised a tree plantation programme as part of the site’s target of planting 1000 saplings in the year 2012. The site team planted 450 saplings at Gov-ernment School in Kavakara-patti and at the Store prem-ises. The staff, workmen and school children actively involved themselves in this plantation programme.

Transmission Line Project team at Bilaspur plants 100 saplingsThe staff and workmen

at Transmission Line Pro-jects Office, Bilaspur, Chhat-tisgarh organized a Tree plantation on 22nd Novem-ber and planted 100 saplings at the KSK TL store prem-ises, Ratanpur (Bilaspur) and at the adjacent Govern-ment Primary School, Par-gon, (Janjgir-Champa Dist), Chhattisgarh.

This plantation activity was inaugurated by the Prin-cipal of the Government Pri-

mary School along with Mr. Thamaraiselvan (Accounts & Administration In-charge). Teachers and students of the school joined the staff and

workmen in planting the saplings and a few saplings were given to the students for planting in their homes.

18Over 200 benefit from L&T PRAYAS Free Eye Camp

Over 200 people living in and around CRR Pu-ram near Virugambakkam, Chennai benefited from a free comprehensive eye camp conducted jointly by L&T’s PRAYAS Trust and Sankara Nethralaya Eye Hospital on December 15th, 2012. A team of 25 optom-etrists headed by Dr. Sheila John, Head Tele Ophthal-mology, screened the pa-tients all through the day.

A detailed audio-vis-ual presentation on eye awareness was given to all patients during the ini-tial screening. The camp included Diabetic Retin-opathy where diabetic pa-tients undergo intensive screening and further treat-ment through laser photo-coagulation. Out of those screened nine cases will be operated for a free cataract surgery and over a hun-

dred people were given free spectacles. Four special cas-es who were detected with Glucoma, operated retinal detachment and healed choroiditis have been rec-ommended for immediate treatment at Sankara Ne-thralaya.

The public at CRR pu-ram expressed their pro-found happiness when they were informed that a free Intra-Ocular Lens Fixa-

tion (IOL) follow-up for the patients will be done at the PRAYAS Medical Cen-tre by Sankara Nethralaya staff and further reviews will take place at Sankara Nethralaya.

Inaugurating the camp at the Prayas Medical Cen-tre in Virugambakkam, Mr. B Ramakrishnan, EVP Finance & Accounts, L&T Construction, said that L&T has been involving itself in

many significant CSR activ-ities through its PRAYAS Trust. He reiterated the importance of eye care and appreciated Sankara Nethralaya immensely for their philanthropic service to the society. Dr. Sheila John thanked L&T for the opportunity to collaborate for the fourth consecutive time and appreciated L&T’s service motto.

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prayas members visit Guild of service on the occasion of diwali and children’s day

Every year members of Prayas Trust, Chennai cel-ebrate children’s day with the children of Guild of Ser-vice in Anna Nagar. This year since children’s day co-incided with Diwali, Prayas visited the children on 28th November. The children ex-hibited their talent through various performances in-cluding singing and danc-ing. Their disability did not in any way dampen their spirits. Understanding their keen interest in music, the Prayas members conducted a competition for the children

Prayas Trust organized a medical camp on 6th October at Dazzling Stones orphan-age in Kundrathur, Chennai. The medical team consist-ing of Dr.Sundaramoorthy and Dr.Meenakshi were ably supported by the paramedi-cal staff Ajitha and Nisha. It was a full day camp and 112 cases were screened, of which 106 children were in-mates and 6 adults were staff members.

All the children were

Medical camp for the children of Dazzling Stones

and presented prizes for the winners. The little girl Muru-galakshmi stole everyone’s heart with her dance, song and a cheerful smile. On be-half of Prayas Trust, a cheque for Rs.12000 to purchase an office table was handed over

given de worming medicine. Young ones were given Al-bendazole suspension and the older ones were given tablets. Iron and multivita-min preparations were given to children with deficiency symptoms in therapeutic dose and to others in a pro-phylactic dose.

Special advice was given to the children in matters of personal hygiene, clean toi-letry habits and skin care. Young girls were advised

menstrual hygiene. The care taker was advised to give balance diet, particularly iron rich food to the chil-dren with iron and vitamin deficiency. Three children with systolic murmur were referred to Sri Ramachan-dra Medical College, Porur for basic cardiac evaluation. Two children were referred to SRMC for vision check-up. Prayas has planned to follow this up with periodic visits in future.

to Mrs. Maya Nair. The untir-ing efforts of Mrs. Maya and her team of teachers deserve special mention. The happi-ness of the children was very infectious. The members re-turned home with a sense of fulfillment.

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Dental and eye screening camps organized by Surabhi benefited 327 children

The ladies of Surabhi or-ganized health camps on 7th & 8th December for the children of the Government Primary Schools at Jakkur Layout & Byatarayanapura Village, Bengaluru. A free Dental Screening, Hygiene counseling and Eye Screen-ing Camp was organized and spectacles were distrib-uted to the needy.

Mr.G Y Suhas, Head – Personnel, Admin & IR, LTK & Dr. Y K Jayalaxmi, Vice President, Surabhi Ladies Club of LTK inaugurated the camp. The Doctors from Shri Opto Care- Hebbal & Shri Krishnadevaraya Dental College, Devanahalli, School Functionaries, Head Master, Co-ordinator from BBMP - Mrs. Kameshwari and

Surabhi coordinators partici-pated in the inaugural pro-gramme. 327 children ben-efited from this programme. The Head Master and the school authorities expressed their heartfelt gratitude to Surabhi and L&T-Komatsu Limited for initiating such projects for the development of the community.

Surabhi presents course completion certificates at its Vocational Training Centre

On 1st December 2012, Prayas Trust – SURABHI in Bengaluru, Ladies Club of L&T Komatsu Limited pre-sented the course comple-tion certificates to 10th batch trainees at the Vocational Training Centre. 65 trainees (Students, Homemakers & Senior Citizens) successfully completed the training and three homemakers were of-fered jobs as Desk Top Pub-lishing (DTP) operators in BASE Academy. Students above 21 years were offered jobs in private insurance company as data entry as-sistants and a free training is being offered for Class X students at BASE Academy. Dr H S Nagaraja, Founder-Director, BASE – a premier educational services organi-

sation, Mr H V Vasuki, Sr. Manager, Fabrication (QC), L&T-Komatsu Ltd and Mr S Prasanna, Regional Man-ager, Insurance Agent (Op-timum Insurance) presented the certificates to the stu-dents. SURABHI feels proud to share that VTC has com-pleted three years and over 400 underprivileged stu-dents have benefited by way of obtaining basic computer skills and basic English.

comprehensive health programme organized at bengaluru benefited 180 people

doctors, District & Block Health Education Offic-ers were also invited for the camp who inspected the proceedings and en-sured that the camp was successful. The Health of-ficers organized & distrib-uted most of the general medicines prescribed by the doctors.

After the camp, an awareness programme on HIV AIDS and Cancer

Prayas Trust Bengal-uru and BLRO jointly or-ganized a comprehensive health screening camp on 28th December 2012 at the Construction Skills Train-ing Institute in Attibele, Bengaluru.

Doctors, staff nurses & volunteers from KC Hos-pital, Suguna Hospital, Mahaveer Jain Hospital, Anekal Govt Hospital, Jain Dental Centre, Patil Eye Hospital and District Disability Rehabilitation Centre under Red Cross, conducted this camp with complete screening in-cluding General Health, Ortho, Eye, ENT and Dental. In addition to the

prevention was conducted by the health officers.

Over 180 people ben-efited from the camp and three cases including one cataract case and two peo-ple with discolouration in the mouth due to smoking & chewing of pan were re-ferred to the hospital for further treatment and sur-gery.

20Making someone smile… is all we need during the season of Durga Puja

On the auspicious occa-sion of Mahalaya on 15th October, Godrej Prakriti Site Kolkata tried to bring a smile on the faces of 20 poor and orphan children who stay on the Dum Dum rail-way platform in Kolkata. The site team along with Mr. S.K. Majumdar (Manager IR)offered them goodies like dolls, bed-sheets, stationer-ies etc. and the kids were de-lighted to receive these items and thanked L&T for this kind gesture.

road safety campaign at Kpo site

A Road Safety Campaign was organised at KPO site, Kalinganagar on 10th Oc-tober. Assessing the huge number of road users, inside as well as outside the Green field Project, the site team conducted a campaign on the need for defensive driv-ing and safe behaviour at all

times. The campaign includ-ed distribution of pamphlets in Odiya & English along with a Street Play and song recitation. The workmen received the message with keen interest and promised to practice safe driving in their day to day lives.

The project team at UMPP Sasan distributed blankets to the 200 workmen at site as a part of its CSR initiatives. The month of November being very cold, the site team led by Mr. Y R Bhardwaj (PM) along with Mr. A K Rajput (COH-IE&SS) & Mr. Pankaj Garg (IE-Job Co-ordinator) presented the blankets to the workmen to overcome the chill weather.

Blankets distributed to the workmen at UMPP Sasan project

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mmH ic’s propensity towards conserving natural resources

In the year 2011, MMH IC planted 1,93,465 saplings through its various sites.

Continuing with this en-deavour, various sustain-ability programs have been initiated towards preserving the natural resources.

In 2012, MMH IC has ini-tiated programs in the HQ campus to conserve Natural Resources. This includes:

500 ml packaged ‘use & throw’ bottles were replaced by PET Bottles and the Re-verse Osmosis (RO) treated water available through in-

house facility is utilized for drinking.

Through this initiative the 12.7 Kg of plastic which will go as a landfill is saved every month and this is on-going. 500 Litres of ground water is saved every month and it’s also continuing.

Also, the IC has made a one-time investment in steel cups for Rs.20528 with a payback period of merely 66 days in order to replace pa-per cups (31,200 numbers of paper cups were used every month for coffee/tea which

is now being saved).MMH IC takes pride in

saving 1.7 fully grown trees per month from being cut.

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L&T was a host to the CSO Partners Monthly meet-ing on 6th December 2012, to evolve further programmes on the subject.

At L&T Construction, the process has been rolled-down across the CSI coordi-nators and the EHS members across the IC’s, to be sensi-tized on the subjects and on key aspects of ‘Children & Construction Industry/Sites such as:

• Ensure that all our As-sociates and Subcontractors follow the norms – ensuring that there be no Child Labour to start with

Ten key aspects would be:

• That the Labour Colony – if it has any parents / young mothers with children,

○ special care of their health

○ ensure high hygiene and fine environment

○ Children’s care during parent’s work hours is well managed; Child Care Centre

○ Education support is adequately provided

○ Safety – security - spe-cially children moving near open bore wells / etc – risk hazards

• Conducive environ-ment be maintained – pollu-tion free / clean

UNICEF, with Global Compac and CSO Partners, in July 2012 had launched a project to foster business participation in the protec-tion and promotion of child rights in Tamil Nadu. A one-of-a-kind initiative, this pro-ject aims to build awareness among business houses in Tamil Nadu and elsewhere. As children constitute an im-portant stakeholder group for business as future em-ployees and future markets it makes good business sense for them to invest in the de-velopment of Children.

The project has been de-signed to build awareness and sensitize business lead-ers and CSR teams on child rights. Businesses will be motivated to take up CSR in-

l&t - a host to the cso partners monthly meeting

terventions with a clear child rights focus. Where busi-nesses are already doing CSR programmes, they will be en-couraged to relook at it from a Child Rights lens.

The kick off was on the 3rd August 2012, and subse-quently, its members include L&T, Orchid Chemicals, HCL, Kone India, Kaleesu-wari Refineries, Steria India Foundation and Funskool as of now.

As a think tank, the core team has been meeting every month to build on various ini-tiatives on the aspect of ‘Busi-ness Principles and Child Rights issues’ in their respec-tive industry-practices and in special focus, helping in their own organization, across rel-evant processes and practices.

2222 cancer affected children in Kolkata receive gifts in the Joy of Giving Week

VIP Road Flyover Pro-ject, Kolkata sponsored gifts for the NGO named Make a

Wish Foundation in the Joy of Giving Week between 2nd to 6th October. These gifts

were given by the NGO to 22 Cancer affected children at various hospitals in Kolkata.

Blankets distributed to 250 people by KPO project team

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As a part of L&T’s Corpo-rate Social Initiatives, KPO Project MMH IC distrib-uted blankets to 250 under-privileged people of Gandhi Nagar - Labour Colony, at - Jajpur District. Mr Priti-ranjan Ghadi, MLA of Ko-

rai Assembly presided over this initiative as the Chief Guest while Mr Subrata Mukhopadhyay, Chief Pro-ject Controller, Mr Himadri Mookherjee, Asst. Manager – IR and others participated in this event.

l&t helps consecrate lord Hanuman statue in mysore

As part of its CSR initia-tives, L&T Construction had an opportunity to dedicate another Idol of Lord Hanu-man at Mysore following the one done at Chennai re-cently.

17th of October witnessed the consecration of the 45 feet single piece Granite stat-ue of Sri Karya Siddhi Hanu-man weighing about 110 t to be installed above a 30 feet pedestal. The highest point of the statue after placing on the pedestal would reach 75 feet. The Idol erection was performed for Sri Ganapa-thi Sachidhananda Ashram- Karnataka, to bestow ‘Peace,

Protection and Success’ upon the subjects (Karya Siddhi). The giant granite statue be-lieved to be the tallest in the state was sculpted at Puliv-endula in Andhra Pradesh.

As for L&T’s Special Pro-jects and Construction Meth-ods team, this is the 7th in the series of statues being sanc-tified, with a few more to come up in the near future. The team has done a com-plete engineering study us-ing scale models in laborato-ry conditions to ascertain the allowable handling stresses.

The rigging scheme for upending and erection were also arrived based on test

results, to keep the stresses within limits. Three heavy duty 90 feet erection towers were deployed with steel grillages as the base struc-ture. Strand jacks mounted on cross beams equipped with long travel skidding fa-cility on steel girders, facili-tated the upending, launch-ing and the final lowering of the Idol on top of the ped-estal. Tilting the statue to a vertical position from the original laydown position was one of the most criti-cal operations as the com-plex shape of the statue and the soft granite stone added complexity to the operation.

HANUMAN STATUE – STAGEWISE UPENDING SEQUENCE

L&T volunteers support Chennai City Traffic Police

Following the request from Chennai City Traffic Police, the ten workmen from L&T Steel Service Centre in Chennai have volunteered to support the traffic police in regulating road traffic at the critical Navalur Sip-cot Junction, Kelampakkam Junction, Vandalur Kelamp-akkam areas. About ten vol-unteers were trained for two days by the traffic police and deployed at the peak hours between 7.00am & 10.00 am and 3.00pm & 7.00pm for thirteen days, 12.12.2012 to 24.12.2012.

This effort paved way in regulating traffic congestion and following L&T’s initia-tive many corporates have come forward to volunteer in turns to make our roads safe.

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‘We will give of our wealth with all of our heart’ said L&Tites in the JOY OF GIVING WEEK

The ‘JOY OF GIVING WEEK’ was celebrated at the Manapakkam campus between Oct 4 and Oct 6, 2012. Initiated by the ECC Recreation Club, this festival is celebrated every year in the week including Gandhi Jayanti and brings together Indians from all walks of life, to celebrate ‘giving’.

A WISH TREE was put up in the lobby area of all the buildings in the campus with Wish Cards bearing a variety of wishes. Every staff picked up a card and dropped it into a box with their name and contact details. And, in the place of the Wish Card, the person placed a Smiley and a Wish Fruit from another

box with his/her name onto the tree. The staff also donat-ed clothes, toys, books and other school material during this period.

L&T Construction’s HQ campus collected a total amount of Rs.2,64,600 from the WISH TREE and 37 car-tons of clothes, 2 cartons of stationery and toys, 2 Bicy-cles and 1 casio in the JOY OF GIVING WEEK.

The proceeds were do-nated to:

Ekam, an NGO working for the health care of under-privileged children

World Vision, an organi-zation working for the up-liftment of children, families and communities living in

poverty and injusticeMaithree, an association

of parents of exceptional children, is an institution committed to the welfare of persons with mental retarda-tion

Rehoboth, an organiza-tion desired to help the par-tially-abled to gain economic and social independence

Forword- ‘Forum for Women’s Rights and Devel-opment’ is an organization that works for upliftment of women and children

MCC, an organization which serves students be-longing to economically weaker sections of the soci-ety

Surabi, an organization rendering various services to the under privileged sections of our society

An ARAB Proverb reads - If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have lit-tle, give of your heart

And L&T’ites said – ‘We will give of our wealth with all of our heart’.

L&T in the 125th Year Celebrations of Mathematical Genius - Srinivasa Ramanujan

On the 125th Birth An-niversary of the Mathemati-cal wizard Ramanujan, L&T Construction sponsored the printing of the book, ‘A Mathematical Genius - Srini-vasa Ramanujan’ written by Dr. K.Srinivasa Rao, a distin-guished DST – Ramanujan Professor [Retd] and the Sec-retary Srinivasa Ramanujan Academy of Maths Talent, Chennai.

Mr.K V Rangaswami, Advisor to Chairman, L&T penned the preface for this prestigious publication tar-geted specially for students. The book was released by Padma Shri Mrs. Rajalak-shmi Parthasarathy, better

known as Mrs. Y G P, the educationist, social worker, the founder and dean of the P. S. B. B. Group of Institu-tions Chennai.

L&T played a small but meaningful role in support-ing the publication of 2000 books, which will help the student-community and the school-libraries in their edu-cational pursuits, igniting their mathematical minds.

Continuous feedback from Mr. R N Mukhija, Advisor to Chairman, L&T

Completing One year to Begin Another…With this issue, Reaching Out completes One Year with 5 volumes. Its time to review the real reach of this tabloid which represents the CSR face of L&T Construction.

Thanks for starting this on quarterly basis.

I knew that The L&T Construction team was doing a lot under CSR but going through the details has made me appreciate the efforts of all involved in this much more. I feel impressed & proud for all of you.

May God continue to provide you the motivation & strength to keep doing more & more.

Take care.With best wishes,R N MukhijaFri 15/6/2012

Enjoyed reading this issue of Reaching Out as I did the earlier. Congratulations. My compliments to all involved in this noble effort.

With best regards,R N MukhijaSat 17/11/2012

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Zonal coordination committee held at l&t construction

The Zonal Coordinator Committee (ZCC) Meeting of all ladies clubs in Chen-nai was held at L&T Con-struction in Chennai on 21st November 2012. This meeting was organized by Mr. V. S. Ramana, Chennai Zonal Coordinator and Ms. Mayura K - L&T Con stru ction with Mr. Alok C Sharma & Ms Mabel Abraham from Powai; Mrs. Chitra Ran-gaswami, Mrs. Meena Sub-rahmanyan, Mrs. Kothai Ramkumar, Mrs. Vasanti Satish, Mrs. Rajini Kanap-pan, Mrs. Akshaya Babu & Mrs. Nirmala Ananthkumar from Prayas Trust – Chennai; Mr. Ranjit Gabriel - Chen-nai Area Office; Mrs. Sheila Chandran, Mrs. Sona Gabri-el, Mrs. Sapna Navneeth & Mrs. Krithika Venkatesh from Ananya - Chennai

Area Office; Mr K Mano-har & Dr Anand from L&T – Kattupalli; Mr. Ethirajan, Mr. Thomas - from AUDCO; Ms. J. Nithyavathi, Ms. Latha & Mr. Madan Aravind from Prayas AUDCO.

This meeting highlighted the key areas of the new ZCC guidelines with Mr.Ramana as the new zonal coordi-nator. Mr. Ramana in his address stated how such meetings would help in com-municating, sharing and de-veloping a single window connect among the ladies club. Mr. Alok Sharma discussed the CSI Strategic Plan – the various elements involved in this plan with a need to scale up to meet future de-mands of the community. The organizational goal for Community development initiatives in Platinum Ju-bilee year of reaching out to 1 million beneficiaries by 2015 was communicated to all the participants. Ms. Ma-bel Abraham discussed the Corporate Social Initiatives Thrust areas and presented an overview the CSI Driv-ers including Ladies clubs. Various initiatives includ-ing health, project ujjwal,

skill building, project neev, L&Teering etc were dis-cussed in detail. The vision for Ladies Clubs i.e to in-crease membership from existing 3000 to 5000 and guidelines including - an-nual grant disbursed will be based on no. of members in the club and also employee strength at location, funding request for special projects will be subject to involve-ment of members, quality and sustainability as well as impact of the projects was communicated to the partici-pants.

On behalf of Audco Prayas - Manapakkam, Maraimalai Nagar and Kanchipuram, Ms. Nithya-vathi made a single presenta-tion highlighting its various activities. Ms. Krithika Ven-katesh presented the projects

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Health Camps

Education

Blood Donation

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Tree Plantation

of Ananya – L&T CAO. A de-tailed Presentation of Prayas Trust activities and opera-tions of the recent medical centre / dialysis unit etc. was made by Ms.Vasanti Sat-ish – Secretary Prayas Trust. Mr.Manohar and Dr. Anand jointly presented the CSR plans for L&T Shipbuilding project, Kattupalli, although they do not have a Ladies Club in place as of now.

In the interactive session, the clubs discussed on the need to increase the partici-

pation of the lady staff and also the involvement for more volunteers (both men & women) in reaching out to neighbourhood schools and teaching the children.

Beneficiaries of CSR Programme April - June 2012 July - Sept’12 Oct - Dec’12 Cumulative beneficiaries

266 1439 1135 2840

12685 10779 8342 31806

8484 3448 1135 13067

6850 16612 13956 37418

120 225 3300 3645

Beneficiaries of CSR Programme