CSR News

News Update/ Press Release April 2021, India: CBM India with the support of Fullerton India has equipped two more vision centres in Haryana and Karnataka in their fight to reduce avoidable blindness and vision impairment in rural India. These would be the first primary screening facilities initiated by RIO Rohtak and RIO Bangalore at primary health centres in rural districts. The inclusive vision centres situated in these rural areas will cater to the most vulnerable communities, including people with disabilities. These vision centres will be fully equipped with screening equipment and will be manned by a trained optometrist. The centre will also engage a community mobilizer, who would be responsible for building awareness and making the community member’s testing experience easy and

News Update/Press Release Gurugram, April 14, 2021: in their endeavour to maintain the highest standards of safety, BluSmart, India’s first all-electric ride hailing platform, has launched a COVID-vaccination drive for their driver partners. The company has just launched a feature in its mobile app to let riders know if their driver has been vaccinated.  BluSmart will also be giving the driver partners one day paid break after they get the jab. Anmol Jaggi, Co-Founder and CEO, BluSmart Mobility said, “The COVID pandemic has had a domino effect and this vaccination drive is our commitment to our most important stakeholders, the driver partners and the customers. By getting our drivers vaccinated, we are ensuring that both them and our riders are safe

News Update /Press Release India 13 April 2021: ELGi Compressors Europe, a subsidiary of Elgi Equipments Limited, one of the world’s leading air compressor manufacturers, is privileged to have had the opportunity to support the Italian Red Cross with an urgent compressed air requirement. In line with ELGi’s corporate philanthropic approach, ELGi Europe responded swiftly and comprehensively with a charitable contribution of an air compressor package for one of Italy’s Red Cross logistic hubs serving the Turin area. Michele Belmondo, Site Manager at the Red Cross Bussoleno, said “The COVID emergency has placed pressure on all people and equipment. We contacted ELGi and other companies asking if they could support us with a new air compressor to enhance our operational capacity at the

News Update/Press Release Dharamshala, 12th April: Peepal Farm, a stray-animal rescue and organic farm, urges people to not abandon pets, in their latest campaign for National Pet Day. The campaign film touches upon the issue of pet-parents abandoning their pets due to reasons such as inability to care for them , amongst many other reasons. The film features a happy couple with a child, who abandon their child as they wish to avoid the tantrums and responsibility. The story provokes viewers to draw parallels between an abandoned child and an abandoned pet, elucidating how a family is everything for a pet as it is to a child. With this campaign, Peepal Farm aims at enlightening people about supporting animal lives

CSR NEWS Bengaluru, April 9, 2021: Embassy Services Pvt. Ltd. has partnered with the Bettahalasuru Panchayat to build a Dry and Wet Waste Collection Centre benefitting 18 villages, under EcoGram, their flagship Environment initiative. The project broke ground today, with a Bhoomi Puja held in the presence of Krishna Byre Gowda, MLA – Byatarayanapura, Aditya Virwani, COO – Embassy Group, Pradeep Lala, CEO & Managing Director – Embassy Services, Myriam Shankar, Managing Trustee – The Anonymous Indian Charitable Trust (TAICT) and Panchayat leaders. Initiated in 2016, EcoGram is a sustainable CSR project of Embassy in partnership with TAICT, which jointly aims to create an ecologically sound replicable model Gram Panchayat to propagate sustainable waste, water and soil management. With current operations spread across eight villages in

News Update/Press Release Mumbai, 6th April 2021: With an aim to celebrate the efforts of students who are striving to become alert, informed and active citizens – ACTIZENS, Desh Apnayen Sahayog Foundation hosted its annual awards ceremony with philanthropist and author Ms. Rohini Nilekani as the Chief Guest. The awards ceremony was hosted live on their Facebook page. The Champion Schools Award was presented to ten schools – Agurchand Manmull Jain School, Chennai, DCM Presidency School, Ludhiana, HVB Global Academy, Mumbai, Narmada Calorx Public School, Bharuch, Our Lady of the Rosary High School, Goa, Pawar Public School, Dombivali, Shri Pragya Public School, Ajmer, Smt. Chandabai Pagariya Jain Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Chennai, St. John’s Universal School, Mumbai and The PSBB Millennium School, Chennai. 20 teachers received the Champion Teachers Award and the President and Vice President of the most active Desh Apnayen

News Update/ Press Release New Delhi, 1 April 2021: Sirvodem SC emerged as the Champion of 4th Edition of Vedanta Women’s League, while FC Goa secured Runners Up position and Futebol club YFA secured 3rd place. The winners, Runners up and all the successful players of the league were felicitated during the action packed closing ceremony at Duler Football Ground in Mapusa, in the distinguished presence of Dr. Pramod Sawant, Hon’ble Goa CM, Mr. Churchill Alemao, President, GFA & MLA Benaulim constituency, Mr. Joshua D’Souza, MLA, Mapusa constituency, Mr. Annanya Agarwal, President, Vedanta Sports, Mr. Sauvick Mazumdar, CEO- Iron and Ferro Alloys Business, Vedanta Limited along with GFA & Vedanta Officials, Women players and team management. The closing ceremony was organized in

News Update/ Press Release IndiA, 31st March 2021: Amidst the isolation and missing social and emotional connection that has been a result of the pandemic, certain segments of society like our elders and senior citizens have been especially impacted. While we all want to be close to our loved ones, this has been especially hard in the past year, given the risks associated with travelling and socializing, and the increased vulnerability of the elderly. Surf excel’s latest Holi campaign #RangAchheHain is built around this very insight and shows a heart-warming gesture by an innocent boy who wishes to include his friend Rancho, an elderly neighbour, in the Holi celebrations. It takes forward the brand’s ‘Daag Achhe Hain’ proposition, showing how colours

News Update/ Press Release Ranchi, 25 March 2021– Jharkhand State’s Department of School Education in collaboration with World Vision India, UNICEF and Child Fund India roll out the ‘Apni Suraksha Apne Hath’ campaign’ in the districts of Giridih, West Singhbhum, Ranchi, Bokaro and Dhanbad of Jharkhand. ‘Apni Suraksha Apne Hath’ campaign was inaugurated by the Honorable Chief Minister Mr. Hemant Soren. The ‘Jagrukhta Rath’ awareness vans showcases messages on sanitation, hygiene and key guidelines on the prevention of COVID-19. The campaign would drive home the messages to children from 14251 schools in 24 districts across the state of Jharkhand. School closures since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic have presented an unprecedented challenge to children’s education and wellbeing. As an organization working for Child well-being,

News Update/Press Release New Delhi, 25th March, 2021: Power Finance Corporation Ltd secured 2nd runner-up position in the recently concluded Power Cup 2021 (Delhi) T-20 Cricket Tournament. Power Cup 2021 (Delhi) was organized by NHPC. A total of 8 teams including teams from the Ministry of Power (MoP), Powergrid, NHPC, PFC, NTPC, POSOCO, EESL and REC took part in the tournament. The tournament started on 20th Feb 2021 and concluded on 21st March 2021. The 2nd runner-up position match was played between PFC and NTPC. PFC won the match convincingly chasing the set target of 134 in 13.4 overs with 8 wickets in hand. Vishu Chaudhary from PFC was declared ‘Man of the Match’ for his 64 runs innings in 35 balls