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Advanced Endoscopy Services for a better quality of life

November 19, 2021

Mumbai: With an aim to create meaningful interactions with people of the society, and help improve their quality of life, Zen Multispecialty Hospital is pioneering social initiatives in association with ICICI Foundation. This initiative will help needy people to undergo advanced endoscopic tests at discounted rates. Esophago-gastro-duodenoscopy, colonoscopy, and endoscopic ultrasound are some of the procedures that will be offered through this initiative for the next 2yrs. Corporate social responsibility (CRS) initiatives are the need of the community, with health remaining of prime focus and importance. Being socially responsible is the motto to help in the upliftment of others. Now, Zen Multispecialty Hospital has come forward, striving for society, and taking limitless efforts to bring quality healthcare within the reach

Ambuja Neotia Group and ICICI Lombard jointly open a 58 bed COVID Care Centre in New Town, Kolkata

May 28, 2021

New Town, Kolkata, May 28, 2021:Ambuja Neotia & ICICI Lombard jointly announce the opening of ‘Vinod Neotia Covid Care Centre’ — a 58-bed first-line COVID care facility in New Town. Located adjacent to Bhagirathi Neotia Woman and Child Care Centre, New Town, this facility is set to start operations from today. ICICI Lombard, has provided the medical equipment to the Covid Care centre, which comprises 48 oxygen-aided beds for mild or moderately affected Covid-19 patients and 10 High dependency unit (HDU) beds. The centre will provide nursing assistance and lab support 24×7, HDU beds for treating critical as well as mild Covid cases requiring hospitalization. It will have specialist consultants on call, and provide Phone Triaging (interactive process between the nurse and the

Indian Pulses and Grains Association donates ventilators to hospitals in Gujrat

May 26, 2021

Mumbai, May 26, 2021: India Pulses and Grains Association (IPGA), the nodal body for India’s pulses trade and industry, have recently donated one ventilator to the Shrimad Rajchandra Love and Care (SRLC) Hospital in Dharampur, Valsad District, Gujarat, in continuation of their CSR efforts to provide support and relief in rural India during the Covid-19 pandemic. IPGA has been working to strengthen the hands of the frontline workers by donating a ventilator to treat COVID patients especiallythe disadvantaged tribal people of South Gujarat under the Shrimad Rajchandra Love and Care program. This is an initiative for and beyond COVID to serve the people in rural areas for years to come. The SRLC hospital, a 100-bedded facility in Dharampur town of

Hindustan Unilever Limited begins the roll out of Mission HO₂PE initiative in New Delhi and Bangalore

May 19, 2021

India,19 May,2021- Hindustan Unilever Limited has now rolled out Mission HO2PE in New Delhi and Bangalore. As part of Mission HO2PE, HUL has partnered with KVN Foundation and Portea, India’s largest home healthcare company to make oxygen concentrators available free of cost to patients in need in these cities, promptly and efficiently. India is facing a severe shortage of O2 concentrators as the healthcare system continues to grapple with the deadly second wave of Covid-19. Through Mission HO2PE, HUL has airlifted over 5000 oxygen concentrators into India. HUL’s partnership with KVN Foundation and Portea will provide access to oxygen for Covid-19 patients directly in their homes, thereby reducing the pressure on our healthcare infrastructure which is already under duress. In New Delhi and Bangalore, patients and caregivers can

Vedanta Foundation distributed free laptops to 3,000 girl students of Ringus, Rajasthan

July 30, 2020

PRESS RELEASE The Vedanta Foundation has distributed 3,000 free laptops to the students of Vedanta PG Girls College, Sikar, Rajasthan. The initiative has been taken to fuel the ambition of less privileged students. Started in the year 1992, Vedanta Foundation has been contributing in the upliftment of the weaker sections of the society. One of its major initiatives is the Vedanta Post Graduate Girls College, Ringus (Rajasthan), which holds special significance and is close to the heart of Vedanta Resources Ltd Chairman Anil Agarwal. The Foundation has distributed free laptops to all the 3,000 students including the new entrants on July 30, 2019. Kiran Agarwal (chaiman of Hindustan Zinc ) Summary Didwania (Trustee of Vedanta foundation) and Dr BL Sharma

TURKISH WHISTLING LANGUAGE OF NORTHERN VILLAGE OF KUSKÖY NOW ON UNESCO LIST

July 28, 2020

In the mountains of northern Turkey, people might hear the strains of whistling on the breeze. It sounds like birdsong, complete with trills, chirrups and lilting whistles. But this whistling is entirely human. The next time you are in Turkey, visit Kuskoy – the village in district Canakci in Giresun province where people communicate through bird sounds. The unusual and very efficient whistle language used as a means of communication by villagers in remote northern Turkey has entered the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list. The United Nations Cultural Agency this week has accepted the “bird language” of Black Sea villagers as an endangered part of world heritage in need of urgent protection because it could soon be overtaken by modern

Nestlé India expands its clean drinking water facilities in rural Rajasthan

July 27, 2020

PRESS RELEASE Reaffirming its commitment to providing clean drinking water, Nestlé India in association with the Government of Rajasthan inaugurated clean drinking water facilities in Badnagar. A total of 12 water purification units have been installed in Manjri Kala, Chandoli, Bhaisroardgarh, Umand, Abdulpur, Angai, Langra, Panchodi, Panota, Sirohi, Badnagar and Khadin since 2017, as a part of Nestlé India’s clean drinking water project in the primary health centers of rural Rajasthan. The projects are being implemented by Nestlé India’s NGO partner Piramal Sarvajal, who will be constructing single phase bore-wells and water tanks with water filtration and delivery mechanism. Commenting on the partnership, Hon. Minister of State (IC) for Sports and Youth Affairs, Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, said, “Access to

NALCO: COMMITTED TO TRANSFORMING LIVES AND COMMUNITIES

July 27, 2020

INITIATIVE Sarve Bhavantu Sukhina’ (May all be happy) is the guiding spirit for Asia’s largest integrated Aluminium complex, National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO), which was incorporated in 1981 as a Public Sector Enterprise under the Ministry of Mines, Government of India. Taking inspiration from the words of the Father of Nation Mahatma Gandhi – “Whenever you are in doubt … recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him?,’’ NALCO has been striving to transform lives and communities through its impactful CSR initiatives. CSR FOCUS AND AREAS NALCO’s CSR Projects focus on Infrastructure Development, Healthcare, Sanitation, Drinking

SCRIPTING A BRIGHT FUTURE FOR THE GIRL CHILD ‘NALCO KI LADLI’

July 27, 2020

INITIATIVE What began as an initiative to empower the girl child through a CSR programme called ‘NALCO KI LADLI’ is turning out to be a powerful trigger for positive change and mindset in villages of Odisha. NALCO has started a CSR programme ‘NALCO KI LADLI’ under ‘BETI BACHAO, BETI PADHAO’ programme of Govt. of India, to promote meritorious girl students belonging to Below Poverty Line (BPL) families and having minimum 60% marks in the schools located in periphery area of NALCO’s pants in Damanjodi, Angul and Pottangi in Odisha. The girl children are identified from class 8th, 9th and 10th standard belonging to marginalized section of the society. It was far from an easy job to convince the villagers about

ENTREPRENEURIAL MIND FOR A SOCIAL CAUSE

July 25, 2020

INITIATIVES SAURAV GHOSH, Ashoka Fellow 2016, shares with NEETI JHA the pleasures of creating wealth for the poor. Social sector activist Saurav Ghosh started off his career as a wealth manager. However, he was soon to be disillusioned with the work he was doing as he found that in India wealth management was about getting more wealth for the already wealthy. It was then he decided to create wealth for the not so wealthy. When he started doing that, Ghosh realized it was easier to do work under CSR schemes by shifting out of a plush corporate office to the more Spartan workplaces of social sector organisations. Saurav, an MBA, was interested in the art of handicrafts and the supply

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