CSR Newsletter from L&T Construction 2013 : January | February | March - Volume 6

Editor’s Note In this issue

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Cover Story

Health

Prayas

Blood Donation

Education

Tree Plantation

L&Teering

The two day blood do-nation camp at the Chennai Campus, organized on 14th and 15th February 2013 joint-ly by L&T Construction, L&T Infotech, ECC Recreation Club and Indian Red Cross Society, culminated with the donation of 1088 units of blood, achieving a new mile-stone.

This two day camp was flagged off by Mr. S.N. Sub-rahmanyan, Member of the Board & Senior Executive Vice President (Infrastruc-ture & Construction) along with Mr.N. Senthilnathan, Hon. Treasurer Indian Red Cross Society in the pres-ence of Mr. S. Kanappan, EVP, Head & Chief Ex-

Community Development initiatives reaching greater heights - 1088 units of blood in two days!

ecutive, L&T Geostructure, Mr. N. Dharmarajan, VP & Head HR (B&F IC), Mr. V.S Ramana, Head CSR ini-tiatives - L&T Construction and senior executives from L&T Construction and L&T

Prayas Trust, Chennai was the proud recipient of the most prestigious Mary Clubwala Jadhav award for humanitarian service insti-tuted by The Madras School of Social work at its Dia-mond Jubilee Celebrations on 2nd March 2013. This award was given to Prayas in recognition of its social values, impact on the soci-ety and the accomplishment demonstrated towards hu-manitarian services.

Ms. Suryakumari Ram-akrishna, Founder President – Prayas Trust, Ms. Meena Subrahmanyan, President

Prayas Trust receives Mary Clubwala Jadhav award for humanitarian service

– Prayas Trust and Ms. Su-mathi Ramakrishnan, Mem-ber of Prayas received the award from Dr. Cynthia Pandian, Vice Chairperson, Tamil Nadu State Council for Higher Education, Gov-ernment of Tamil Nadu, Dr. Fathima Vasanth, Principal of MSSW and other senior dignitaries from the School of Social Work at the glitter-ing ceremony organised at the Guild of Service audito-rium in Egmore.

Mary Clubwala Jadhav (1909-1975) was an Indian philanthropist and recipient of India’s civilian honour

Benchmarking, Goal Setting, Mid-term Review, Annual Performance Review, assimilating the learnings for course correction…they are all part of Management Practice. This is so much relevant to managing our affairs at home and elsewhere as well.

In recent times, I noticed a term that caught my attention – ‘Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility’.

While Corporate Sustainability Reporting is one strategic part of CSR that organizations like L&T imbibe as a process, Corporate Social Responsibility is the other side of the same coin – one that translates plans into fine tangible activities. This ‘Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility’ cleverly integrates and makes it seem to be a seamless continuum … in planning and doing right programmes that enriches the stakeholders & the society. This integrated approach to planning and carrying out activities would ultimately decide the Sustainability of Corporates and the larger

Society too. Organizations are very much an integral part of the society! And the efforts from Prayas Teams across multiple locations is able to add that ‘Nightingale Touch’ to our reaching out!!

With the end of another Financial Year, we could also take some time to review our ‘CSR Score Card’. While the numbers do mean everything, it does not surely discount the quality of our activities or programmes. The back cover has our Score Card for the period April 2012 to March 2013 vis-à-vis the same period of the previous year. While we surely have reasons to feel good over what we did in this period, we now know where we focused and where we ought to exert in this year.

Let us proudly share our ‘Reaching Out’ to as many stakeholders as possible [they are 24x7 accessible on http://www.lntecc.com/homepage/common/reachingout.htm] and also begin this New Financial Year with new Gusto.

The CSR path we came by has some fine stories to tell….and we can be proud about it!

Your e-copy of all issues at http://www.lntecc.com/homepage/common/reachingout.htm

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Infotech and other L&T Di-visions in Chennai campus. On the second day, Mr. K.V Rangaswami, Advisor to the Chairman visited the camp and presented certificates to the enthusiastic donors.

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The staff at BRGF Jalpaig-uri site organised a blood do-nation camp on 23rd March in association with the blood bank of Sadar Hospital, Jal-paiguri. 77 volunteers do-

77 units donated to Government Hospital Jalpaiguri Vaishnavi Terraces Project, Bangalore Cluster con-

ducted a blood donation camp and Eye check-up camp on 2nd March. Rashtrothana Blood Bank and Dr. Agar-wal’s Eye Hospital conducted the camps. 35 units of blood was collected and 50 people were screened for eye problems during this programme.

Blood and Eye camps conducted at Vaishnavi Terraces Project

As a part of L&T’s Platinum Jubilee Year ini-tiative, a Blood donation camp was organized on 20th March at the BIAL T1-Expansion Project, Ben-galuru in association with the Indian Red Cross Soci-ety (Karnataka Branch).

Mr. G E Vasanth Ku-mar, Project Manager in-augurated the camp and volunteers from BIAL project and GVK (Cli-ent) actively participated and donated 134 units of

BIAL T1 Expansion Project donates 134 units to IRCS

Prof. A Kadar Basha, Former Principal, The New College, Chennai & the Hon Advisor to Indian Red Cross Society joined KVR and appreciated the noble gesture.

This massive camp, first of its kind in the Manapa-kkam campus, was held for two days in three locations namely Convention Centre, TC 3 Building and DLF IT Park to receive donors from L&T Construction and Info-tech.

L&T has been organiz-ing blood donation camps once a year and over the last few years, hundreds of

staff and business associates have generously come for-ward and donated blood to Red Cross for a cause. This has in turn enabled our own staff benefitting from instant units of blood urgently being

made available at the most critical hours of need by Red Cross. Our act won the ap-preciation of Red Cross as L&T emerged as the largest Corporate Blood Donor in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

With the year 2012-2013 being celebrated as the Plati-num Jubilee Year at L&T, thanks to the donors, vol-unteers, team leaders who made this big number – 1088 units possible, thereby tak-ing our Community Devel-opment initiatives to greater heights.

This is the second camp in this Financial Year (first camp was held on 27th & 28th June 2012) with a cumu-lative total of 1961 units do-nated to Red Cross.

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blood. All the donors were awarded with Certificates and Memento.

Indian Red Cross Socie-ty has presented an appre-ciation Certificate to pro-ject team for their efforts.

nated blood and this will be used by the hospital for the treatment of the poor and needy patients at the Gov-ernment Hospital free of cost.

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blood donation camps atFintas office Kuwait • Hogenakkal Project • Vizag Vessel Project • Metro Tunnelling Chennai • GMR Transmission Line Project • Godrej Garden City Project • Godrej Prakriti Project • Prestige Bella Vista Project • MIOT International Project • BARC Phase-1 Project Site • CWSS Attur Package • CWSS Vellore Package III Project & TCS Adibatla

A voluntary Blood Dona-tion Camp was organized on 3rd February at Fintas office, Kuwait in association with Kuwait central Blood Bank Country. 31 units of blood was collected by Kuwait

Metro Tunnelling Chen-nai (L&T SUCG JV) organ-ised a blood donation drive on 28th January at Kilpauk Medical College Hospital in the presence of KMC, CMRL and GC representatives. Mr.S.Vasudeva Rao (Project Director L&T SUCG JV) and Dr.Ravi Chandran (KMC Blood Bank Manager) inau-gurated the programme. 50

The Blood Donation camp at Karimangalam Store Yard - Hogenakkal Project donated 65 units. This camp was held on 31st January in association with Krishnagiri General Hospital where staff and workmen actively participated to donate blood.

Vizag Vessel Project donated 735 units of blood to Indian Red Cross society in the two day camp organised on 19th and 25th January. Mr. S. Satyanarayana, Fitter who has donated 15 times and Mr. G. Apparao, Khalasi who has donated 14 times were rewarded during this occasion.

Central Blood Bank. The ob-jective of this camp was to create awareness among employees on the life saving aspect of voluntary blood donation.

On 5th February, GMR Transmission Line jobs at Rajasthan organised a blood donation camp in association with Jawaharlal Nehru Hos-pital, Ajmer. 21 units was collected from this camp.

Two Blood donation camps were organized at Godrej Garden city project, Ahmedabad. One camp was organized at Phase 3 on 23rd January with the help of Nir-mal Charitable Trust and the other was organized at Phase 1 & 2 on 24th January with

Godrej Prakriti Project, Kolkata organized a blood donation camp on 29th Janu-ary and donated 115 units of blood.

A Blood Donation Camp was organized on Thursday 31st January at MIOT Inter-national Project, Chennai, in association with MIOT Hos-pitals Chennai. L&T Staff, PMC Staff and workmen en-thusiastically participated in the noble cause which culmi-nated in the mobilization of 100 units of blood. As an ap-preciation of the commend-able effort, MIOT Hospital presented a certificate to the proud Donors.

A Blood Donation Camp was held at Prestige Bella Vista Project in association with St. Thomas Hospital on 1st February. 79 donors came forward to support the cause.

volunteers including work-men & staff came forward & contributed to the noble cause.

the help of Sola Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad. Staff & Workmen from GPL, STUP & L&T actively participated and donated 72 units blood.

At BARC Phase-1 Pro-ject Site in Mysore L&T staff, workmen, PMC staff, sub-contractors were actively in-volved in the blood donation camp. 50 units of blood was donated to the Government Hospital Mysore.

A Blood Donation camp was facilitated by CWSS Attur Package WET BU in association with Salem Gov-ernment Medical College Hospital. 32 Blood Donors supported the cause.

A Blood donation camp was organised by CWSS Vellore Package III Project, at Ambur Yard on 29th Janu-ary. The event was held in association with Govern-ment Vellore Medical Col-lege & Hospital, Vellore. 38 donors supported the cause.

TCS Adibatla, Hy-derabad conducted a blood donation camp in association with Janani Voluntary Blood

Bank, Secunderabad on 31st January. 50 units of blood units was collected.

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blood donation camps organized atAIIMS Hospital project • Nashik Elevated Corridor Project • Omkar Projects Worli • Allahabad Water Supply Scheme Part-II • Himalaya Enclave Project Lucknow • Crescent Bay Parel Mumbai

A Blood donation camp was organized at AIIMS Hospital project, Bhubane-swar on 22nd January in association with Model Red Cross Blood Bank, Capital Hospital , Bhubaneswar. 45 units of blood was collected from this camp.

A Blood Donation Camp was organised at Nashik El-evated Corridor Project on 8th January in association with J D C Bytco Hospital at Nashik Road. The Chief Guest, Adv. Yatin Wagh, Mayor of Nashik Municipal Corporation inaugurated the programme. A team of doc-tors and medical profession-als collected 43 blood bags 350 ml each

Chief project officer, Mr. M. V. Srinivasa Rao moti-vated the staff and work-men to donate blood. The

Omkar Projects, Worli organized a Blood donation camp on 16th January in as-sociation with Sarvodaya hospital Mumbai. 66 units of blood was received from the

Staff, Supervisors & work-men. Surovodaya hospital motivated the donors by is-suing a certificate, lifetime donor card, cap, and refresh-ments.

Allahabad Water Supply Scheme Part-II contributed 25 units of blood to AMI blood bank on 19th January.

Himalaya Enclave Pro-ject, Lucknow conducted a Blood donation camp on 19th January in association with Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Science. The project head, Mr. Amit Gupta inagurated this camp.

A Blood donation camp was conducted in Crescent Bay Parel, Mumbai project on 18th January. Over 61 do-nors from L&T Construction and L&T Realty were partici-pated in this camp.

MIAL Project conducted a Blood Donation camp for the second time during this Platinum Jubilee Year on the 13th and 14th March. 220 units of blood was donated to KEM hospital blood bank. This is in addition to 650 units of blood donated in the month of August 2012. 870 units of blood has been donated by the staff and workmen of MIAL Project.

MIAL project donates 220 units in the second blood donation camp in the Platinum Jubilee Year

A one day blood donation camp was organized in coor-dination with K. E. M. Hospi-tals at Wadhwa Commercial Project, BKC Mumbai. Mr R. K. Jain, C.P.M inaugurated the camp and appreciated the volunteers who enthusi-astically donated blood for their noble effort. A total of

Wadhwa Commercial Project donates 55 units of blood

5X270MW Thermal Power Plant, Nashik jointly organized a blood dona-tion camp along with Arpan Blood Bank, Nashik on 12th January 2013.

Mr. Ajay Kumar Mishra, Project Manager, Mr.J Anbu Kuganesh, Planning Engi-neer, Mr. Uttam Pahari, Site Accountant & Mr. Deepak Kumar Sahoo, EHS Su-pervisor and the site staff along with a team of medi-cal and paramedical profes-sionals facilitated this pro-gramme. 52 units of blood was collected from this camp.

Thermal Power Plant Project Nashik Donates 52 Units

EHS In-charge Mr. N K Sa-hoo, Accounts & Admin In-charge Mr. C.S.Pradeep & IR In-charge P.V Sathyan coor-dinated and conducted the programme.

55 units of blood was donat-ed in this camp held on 12th February.

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Blood grouping and health examination was or-ganised for the workmen at 765 KV SS PGCIL Gwalior (Extension project) on 29th January. Mr. Arup Bindu, Construction Manager in-augurated the camp and Dr. Vikash Malhotra M.B.B.S examined the workmen and treated the needy. Techni-

Blood grouping and health examination at Gwalior

cians from a Pathology Lab carried out the blood group-ing for all the people at site.

Minerva Project at Mumbai organized a voluntary Blood Donation Camp in association with KEM Hospital. All staff and workmen including the Client Lokhandwala Kataria Construc-tion Pvt. Ltd joined arms for the noble cause and donated 100 units of blood. Mr. Palwinder Singh, Project Manager and Mr. Vivek Ranjan, Cluster HR Man-ager MBCL initiated this drive and motivated the volunteers.

Minerva Project donates 100 units of blood

A voluntary Blood Dona-tion camp was organized on 12th March at the Monorail project office, in Mumbai. This camp was conducted in association with J J Hospital.

Mumbai Monorail project donates 92 units of blood to J J Hospital

A Blood Donation Camp was held at Omkar Malad Project on 21st March. The Camp was conducted by the Government of Maharashtra SBTC. 152 units of blood was donated by the workmen, supervisors, staff, client and also the residents in the neighbourhood eagerly came forward and donated towards this cause.

Omkar Malad Project donates 152 units of blood

Water Supply Project at Wankaner donated 37 units through a blood donation camp

NC-34 Water Supply Pro-ject, Wankaner in Gujarat organised a blood donation camp in association with Ra-jkot Voluntary Blood Bank & Research Centre on 4th March. 37 units of blood was collected from this camp.

A voluntary blood donation camp was organised at Bhushan Steel project on 16th March 2013 and this camp was inaugurated by the Senior Deputy General Manager Mr.Y V Kumar along with Project Manager Mr.Hare Ram and other senior executives.The camp collected 255 units of blood in a single day. The Red Cross Society of Angul congratulated all the staff and workmen for the achievement.

bhushan steel Project site at angul donates 225 units of blood

The drive was inaugurated by Mr. S.D Patil, Project Manager along with Mr. M. Srinath, Planning Head and Mr. S. Sarkar, Consultant EHS Head. 92 units of blood

was collected by the hospi-tal. As an appreciation of this commendable effort, J J Hos-pital presented a certificate to the proud donors.

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Voluntary blood donation camps organized atRaja Shree cement • Godrej Palm Grove project • RVA LDA Project • Jaypee Greens • CHP-Amlohri • CSTI Panvel UAIL-Rayagada • The Address Project

A blood donation cam-paign was organized at Raja Shree cement, Malkhed, Hy-derabad Cluster on 23rd Jan-uary. Mr. F.D.Jangely, Project Manager invited the Doctors from Gulbarga Hospital to facilitated this camp. 42 vol-unteers donated blood.

On 31st January, 39 vol-unteers from The Address Project donated blood to Sar-vodya Hospital Blood Bank. An HIV awareness street play and HIV Test for work-men was also conducted by Yuvak Pratishthan (NGO) on the same day.

A Blood donation camp was organized at Godrej Palm Grove project, Chen-nai on 24th January in asso-ciation with MGR Univer-sity Blood Bank, Chennai. 31 units of blood was collected from this camp.

A Blood donation camp was organized at Jaypee Greens (Orchards & Kube) Projects, Noida on 17 Janu-ary 2013. An overwhelm-ing response received from employees of both L&T and Client, and total 56 units of blood was donated for a no-ble cause.

Voluntary Blood Dona-tion Camp was organized on 29th January at CHP-Amlohri project site in asso-ciation with Nehru Hospital Blood Bank and Indian Red Cross Society. Project Man-ager Mr. B.K. Singh in pres-ence of Senior Manager (Pro-ject) Mr. Rajesh Kumar, EHS In charge Mr. S. Mohapatra, Mechanical In charge Mr. C. Shanmugam, Equipment In charge Mr. P.K. Singh, Plan-ning In charge, Mr. A. Gupta, Admin In charge, Mr.D. Pan-dey, Asst. Design Manager Mr. Umesh Pareek and IR in charge Mr A. Saha ina-gurated the camp. 25 units

A voluntary Blood dona-tion camp was organized at UAIL-Rayagada job site in association with the DHH Blood bank- Rayagada on 19th January.

The camp was inaugu-rated by Mr. Vijay Sapra, President (Project)- UAIL along with Mr. A.K Da-lui, Project Manager. Mr. M. Ramesh Kumar, Sr. VP (HR), Mr. A. Satyanarayan,

Manager (HR)- UAIL were present during the camp and motivated the donors. 110 units of blood was collected

of blood was collected by Nehru Hospital Blood Bank. The purpose of this camp was to create awareness among employees on the life saving aspect of voluntary blood donation.

The Project Management Team (PMT) at RVA LDA Project organized a camp on 28th January in associa-tion with Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Government Hospital, Lucknow.

34 donors participated in the campaign. Rare blood donors like AB+ & O – par-ticipated in the event. Blood donation& Health related leaflets were distributed dur-ing this drive.

The Construction Skills Training Institute, Panvel organ-ized a blood donation camp in association with the Indian Red Cross society Mumbai on 29th January. Over 74 units of blood was collected from this camp.

The staff and trainees of CSTI & P&M Panvel enthu-siastically participated in this programme. Over the past year CSTI Panvel donated 663 units of blood to Indian Red Cross Society.

during the camp, which is the highest collection by the DHH Blood bank-Rayagada.

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At the Metro Tunnelling Delhi L&T SUCG JV DMRC CC05 Project, Dr.Neera Agrawal, M.S. Opthalmology and Dr.Rajender Sharma, Optometrist along with a team conducted vision testing for 123 staff and workmen.

123 workmen screened at dMRC Metro Tunnelling project

RMZ Galleria Project organized a Eye and Dental Check-up at Bengaluru on 22nd January. Vasan Hospital screened over 148 people including staff, workmen & Client.

148 people screened at the eye & dental camp at RMZ Galleria Project

A free comprehensive Eye Screening Camp was conducted for the villagers living in and around CSTI Jadcherla on 19th March in association with Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospital, Hyderabad.

Middle aged people who were 40 years plus were screening in this camp. Totally 171 villagers benefited from this camp with 90 senior citizens. 28 people were provided free spectacles and a cat-aract surgery was recommended for 15 patients.

171 villagers undergo eye screening near CsTi Jadcherla

An eye screening camp was organised at Utkal Alu-mina site on 25th January and this camp was inaugurated by Mr. S. Biswas, VP - HR & Safety, UAIL in presence of Mr. A.K Dalui, PM, Mr. S.K Jena, Sr. CM Planning, Mr. G. Behera, CM and other site staff.

Eye camp at Utkal Alumina site in Rayagada benefit 112 workers

On 28th January, the staff at 765/400 kV Substation Project Satna, M.P. organ-ized free health screening for 80 staff and workmen at site.

Various blood tests were conducted along with regu-lar physical examination. Free medicines were also distributed to the work-men. The Project Manager Mr.N.Kalingarajan, Mr. Sa-marjeet Kumar Singh & Mr. Prem Chand Jangir from the Administration Team and the EHS Manager Mr. M.Ananthraman facilitated this camp.

Free health checkup for workmen at Satna

A general health camp was held on 23rd January at Prestige Bella Vista Pro-ject. Mr. M. Gopinath, Team Leader along with the site team facilitated the program. 237 people were benefited and essential drugs were given free of cost.

General health camp at Prestige Bella Vista project at Chennai

Over 112 staff, operators, drivers and supervisors ben-efited from the camp.

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400/220/66 kV GIS Sub-station at Harsh Vihar, Delhi, as a part of its health care initiatives, organised a com-prehensive health screening camp for the workmen on 24th January at site. Doctors and staff nurses from Dr. B L Kapur Memorial Hospital Delhi conducted complete screening including general health examination, weight, height, BP, RBS, ECG testing etc. Senior executives from the client also participated in this camp. Over 100 peo-ple benefited from this pro-gramme.

General health screening camp for workmen at GIS Substation at Harsh Vihar Godrej Garden City pro-

ject, Ahmedabad organized an Eye testing camp with the help of the Government Hospital on 16th January. All the project staff including the Client Godrej Properties, PMC (STUP) along with the

Godrej Garden City project conducts Eye screening for 287 people

workmen and their family members went through eye screening by experienced eye specialists. 287 benefited from this camp. Lens / spec-tacles and eye drops were distributed free of cost upon the doctor’s advice.

A health camp was or-ganised at AWSS-II, Alla-habad site on 30th January. 76 people were examined and counseled for general health, hygine and first-aid measures were demonstrat-ed during this programme.

Health and first aid counseling at aWss- ii allahabad

As part of the organisa-tions’ CSR efforts, the staff at 765 kV Substation project at Gwalior organised a health camp on 29th January.

Over 70 workmen and staff benefited from this programme. General health check up with pathological tests were performed and free medicines were distrib-uted for the benefit of the workmen. Fitness certificate was also issued to those workmen who are involved in working at heights. The doctor also guided them with some easy to follow health tips to keep them physically and mentally fit.

Health Camp at Gwalior 765kV substation site

A Blood Donation Camp, general health checkup and dental and eye screening camps were organized at TCS Phase III,

Health Camps & voluntary blood donation programme held at TCs Project

Chennai on 11th, 22nd and 23rd January at site.

The blood donation camp was held in association with M/s Institute of Child

Health, Egmore and 83 donors came forward to support the cause.

Chettinad Health City, Kelambakkam conducted the

Medical cum Dental Camp and 225 workmen benefited. General health and fitness levels of the workmen was also examined and a few

A Health camp was conducted in DMRC-CC05 project on 11th January 2013. Over 150 employees from DMRC, L&T and SUCG were screened in this Health camp.

Health camp at DMRC benefited 150 employees

routine tests including blood sugar, pressure and hemoglobin levels were measured. Professionals from Vasan Eye Care screened 250 people in the eye camp.

The necessary medicines went distributed free of cost in these health camps. The Project Manager Mr. K.Muthaiyan along with the site team facilitated the programme.

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Hospet – Harlapur Dou-bling Railway Construc-tion project site organized a health camp on 26th January at KOPPAL Railway Station Yard (Karnataka). Dr.B.R. Patil – Chief Doctor (Co-operative Hospital – Hubli) examined over 70 workmen

Health checkup at Koppal Railway Station Yard benefits 70 people

and prescribed medicines. Mr.A.G.Patil – Dy. General Manager (RVNL – Hubli), Mr.Varma – Additional Divi-sional Engineer, South West-ern Railways, Kadak and Mr. Kurian (Consultant to RVNL on Safety) participated in this camp.

A Voluntary Blood Donation Camp and a general health check-up was organized on 25th January at Sahar Elevated Access Road project, Mumbai project site, in association with Breach Candy Hospital. Over 46 units of blood was collected from this camp. General health and fitness levels of the workmen were also examined and a few routine tests including blood sugar, pressure and haemoglobin

Health examination and blood dona-tion programme at Sahar Elevated Access Road project

On Republic Day, HIL MAP Project (MMH IC, Ahmedabad Cluster) team conducted a health check for the local villagers and the workmen, at the work-men camp. Dr. Arun Shar-ma, MBBS (Senior Medical Officer, I/C Public Health center, Bargawan, Singrauli)

Health examination for local villagers at HIL MAP Project

A free health check-up camp was held at Vana-gram Labour Colony of the Underground Metro Tun-nelling Project, Chennai in association with Dr. Mo-hammed Moyidhin, Tamil-nadu State Government Hospital on 25th March 2013.

Totally 162 workmen benefited from the camp, out of which 63 were treat-

Underground Metro Tunnelling Project in Chennai conducts a health camp for 162 workmen

ed for fever, 50 for body pain, 23 for cough & cold and 5 for injury. The doctors also educated the workmen on diseases like Aids, Hepatitis and Tuberculosis.

levels were measured. The necessary medicines were distributed free of cost in the health camp.

The Project Manager Mr. Raveendra Hegde along with the site team facilitated the programme.

A free Cardiology Camp was organized on 21st Janu-ary at DMRC CMC-1 project in association with Mool-chand Hospital, New Delhi. In order to create awareness

150 workmen educated about heart diseases at DMRC CMC-1 project

among workmen on the in-creasing trend of heart dis-eases, 150 workmen were screened as well as educated about heart problems and general health.

Mouth cancer screening camp at ESIC Project benefits 300 workmen

ESIC Medical College & Hospital Project, Kollam or-ganized a free medical camp for the workmen and super-visor on 30th March. Over 300 workmen and supervi-sor were screened for general health and mouth cancer by a team of doctors from Dis-trict Medical Office & Prima-ry Health Centre, Parippally.

examined over 107 people and prescribed the neces-sary treatment and drugs for prevailing ailments. Mr. J. Suresh, Project Manager, Mr. S. Annamalai, Site Acct. & Admn, Mr. S. Sengupta, EHS Manager along with the local villagers, staff & work-men were actively involved in this camp.

The Medical camp was in-augurated by Mr. V.Kannan - Construction Manager, Mr.K.Raveendran - Accounts & Administration Manager. Mr. Ajith Kumar - Ward Mem-ber of Parippally was also pre-sent during the occasion. This camp was organised by the Admin & EHS Departments of ESIC Project, Kollam.

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Jaypee Greens- Noida Project organized a free medical camp for the work-men and staff on 23rd March. Over 200 workmen and staff were screened for general health and fitness by a team of doctors. The Medical camp was inaugurated by Mr. Mukesh Syal, Sr. GM- Jaiprakash Associates Lim-ited. Mr. R.K. Gupta, Project Director- Jaypee Greens-Noi-da along with Mr.Sankalp Misra, Project Manager- Or-chards and Mr R.K. Choud-hary, Project Manager- Kube were also present during the occasion.

Health screening at Jaypee Greens in Noida benefits 200 people

A two day health care camp was organized at UAIL site, Rayagada on 29th and 30th January for 230 workmen. Dr B.L.N Prusty , MBSS,D.H.Q Hospital Raya-gada screened the workmen for general health and fitness. Mr. S.Biswas, VP- Utkal Alu-mina International inagurat-ed the camp in the presence of Mr.Manoj Kumar, Project Manager and the staff.

Health screening for 230 workmen at UAIL site

A general health and fitness screening programme was organised at the MIAL Project site on 24th January. Over 300 workmen benefited from this initiative.

Health screening for workmen at MIAL

The project team at Shiv Nadar University site in Dadri organized a free medi-cal camp for the workmen and staff on March 30, 2013. Over 150 workmen and staff were screened for general health and fitness by a team

Health screening at Shiv Nadar University project in Dadri benefits 150 people

of doctors. The medical camp was led by Mr. Durgesh Sin-gh - Project Manager, Mr. K. Raghunath - Planning Man-ager, Mr. Dipender Singh - Admin In-charge and Mr. Dushyant Parmar, EHS I-charge.

On World TB day, an awareness programmed was con-ducted at the Nagole Precast Yard of Hyderabad Metro Rail

350 workmen at Hyderabad educated on prevention of tuberculosisProject by an in-house medi-cal consultant to increase the awareness on the control and prevention of tuberculosis.

Over 350 workmen at site attended and benefited from this programme held on 24th March. Health tips were giv-en by Dr. Karunakar Rao and many myths and misconcep-tions about the occurrence and transmission of TB was also discussed during the session.

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As a part of the organiza-tion’s CSR efforts, the staff at 400/220 KV Switchyard Extn-Kota-RAPP-NPCIL Project, Kota extended sup-port to three Government Schools which are located in the interior parts of Rawatb-hata.

Over 200 students from tribal communities study in Rajakiya Prathamika Vidyalaya - Bhairojikamal, Rajakiya Prathamika Vidya-laya - Aajpura & Rajakiya Madhyamika Vidyalaya – Rajpura and these chil-dren lack the basic needs of life. The site team provided school uniforms, stationary kits and mats to these chil-

400/220 KV switchyard project team cares for 200 tribal children

dren on 13th February. The Project Manager, Mr. S Bal-akrishnan, Site Accountant Mr. Bhavesh Kumar Joshi

along with the CSR coordi-nators of Mumbai Cluster (PT&D IC) presented the items to the children.

5000 road users educated on the importance of Road Safety at Chennai – L&Teering makes this campaign a grand success

As a giant step towards spreading the important message of road safety to the thousands of road us-ers in Chennai and making our roads a safe and secure place as we travel each day, the staff at HQ in co-opera-tion with the Chennai Traffic Police and L&T CMRL pro-ject Team organized a road safety awareness campaign

on 6th January, near Guindy.During this program,

road safety instruction book-let highlighting important aspects on Road Safety, overview of Traffic Offenses as per Motor Vehicle Act / Rules etc were given to the commuters to create aware-ness among road user. As a goodwill gesture, roses were presented to the violators to

sensitize the impact of road safety deviations.

Around 100 volunteers from different ICs/SBGs have volunteered and made this campaign as grand suc-cess. More than 5000 book-lets were distributed to commuters. Thanks to the efforts of the HQ EHS team comprising of all ICs/SBGs!

BALCO site team reached to the 100 children of Gov-ernment Primary school at Dondro District, Korba, which is at a distance of 9kms from site, on 26th Feb-ruary. 40 sets of desks and

BALCO site reaches out to 100 Government Primary school children

benches were given to the school and this was well re-ceived by the children. The school management and the village sarpanch appreciated the L&T team for its valuable contribution.

Tata Steel Projects, Jamshedpur donated 10 computers and 2 printers to Bharat Sevashram Sangha, a centre that imparts computer education to underprivileged children in Jamshedpur.

Tata Steel Projects Jamshedpur supports computer education of underprivileged children

On 14th February, Mr.Bhanu Pratap Singh, Project Manager and Mr.A. K.Sinha, Cluster Plant Manager presented the computers to the children at the learning center. Over

45 children of Sahayata Ashram in Odisha get support from AAP Lapanga site

The staff at AAP Lapanga site distributed geometry boxes, note books, stationery kits & maps to the orphans of Sahayata Ashram, Sambal-pur, Odisha on 22nd March.

The site team also donated blankets, rice bags, tables, chairs, benches and a Kirlo-skar Jet Pump for the ash-ram. 45 children living in the ashram benefited from these donations.

30 students in every batch will have the opportunity to enhance their knowledge through the support offered by L&T.

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In line with the organisa-tions committed to promote basic education and develop school infrastructure, CSTI-Jadcherla donated 30 Desk Benches to the students of Mandal Parishad Primary School, Polepalli Village, near CSTI-Jadcherla on 5th Janu-ary. Over 90 students study-ing in 3rd, 4th & 5th Classes have benefited from this

CSTI Jadcherla supports Mandal Parishad Primary School

initiative. This Government school lacks infrastructure and the students were found to be sitting on the floor. Therefore, Mr. N.Sudhakar-Regional Manager HYRO and T.M.Jalapathy-Training Manager CSTI Jadcherla handed over the desk bench-es to the students so that they study in more comfortable environment.

As a part of the organiza-tion’s CSR efforts, the staff of CHP GMR Project - MMH IC extended a helping hand to

Drinking water facility provided for a village primary school near GMR CHP site

the nearby Primary School at Tarashive village on 8th January.

The site set-up a Drinking

Water facility and provided Ceiling Fans, Tables & Chairs for the staff and Pencil boxes for 120 students. The Project Manager Mr.S.K.Dey along with the Block Education Of-ficer Mr.Rakesh Gupta & Vil-lage Sarpanch Mr.V.Verma inaugurated the drinking water facility and appreci-ated the initiative taken by L&T.

HIL Mahan Site reaches out to 300 Primary school children at Majgawan Village

As a part of our organizations CSR activities, HIL MAHAN site team in association with HINDALCO par-ticipated in the National Youth Day celebration and 150th birthday anniversary of Sri Swami Vivekananda at Swara-sati Sishu Mandir, a primary school at Majgawan village on 12th January.

As means of creating awareness on the importance of education and also creating interest in the minds of the primary school children to pursue higher education, the site team donated 300 bags to the kids.

The site staff -Mr. A Kundu (In-charge QA/QC), Mr. S Khan (A/c & Admn. Dept.), Mr. R K Patra (IR Dept.), Mr. N N Rao (P&M Dept), Mr. S. Sengupta (EHS Man-ager), representatives from the client along with the Local TI (Thana In-charge) Mr. B B Singh actively participated in this event.

Pondy Works was in-volved in the construction of a toilet block for Government Higher Secondary School at Vanur, Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu. This school is situated at a distance of 2kms from the factory and there are 506 students (246 girls & 260 boys) studying in this school.

Staff at Pondy Works provide toilet facility for 246 girls of Government Higher Secondary School

The girls found it re-ally inconvenient to attend school without a proper toi-let facility. L&T addressed this need by constructing a lavatory facility and on 6th February, the staff at Pondy Works handed over the facility to the school management. The pro-gram was facilitated by

Mr.V.Ganesh TLT & RM, M r . R . N a r a y a n a s w a m y , FWTS, Mr.L.Jaikumar, FWMS, Mr.R.Rajagopalan, Manager Administration, Mr.R.Manickam, Asst.Manager maintenance and Mr.S.Inbaraj, Asst.Manager-IR. The teachers and the stu-dents were extremely happy and thanked L&T.

485 students Davanagere Government School benefited

R-APDRP, Davanagere Project reached out to Nittuvalli Government School in Davanagere on 30th March. The site team donated geometry

boxes, note books, pencils and pens for 485 students from grade 1 to grade 10. The School Head Master, Mr.Jayappa and the Chief Superintendent of SSLC

examination Mr.Durgappa were present during this occasion and appreciated L&T’s efforts.

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The staff at Hyderabad Regional Office extended help to DESIRE Society, a non-profit voluntary or-ganization established in the year 2004 focussing on protecting HIV affected children abandoned by one or both parents, chil-dren of sex workers, truck drivers and children who have been abused and be-long to weaker sections of the society.

On 22nd February, the Regional Manager Mr.N.Sudhakar along with senior staff donated some

Hyderabad Regional Office supports abandoned children at Desire Society

utility utensils for the kitch-en to produce food on a large scale with limited time for the growing number of in-mates in the home.

Metro Tunnelling Del-hi L&T SUCG JV DMRC CC05 Project reached out to the children of Bachchon Ka Ghar, an orphanage at Daryaganj, New Delhi. The site team along with Mr. S.K.Gupta, Dy Project Lead-er, Mr. S.Kundu, Commer-

Metro Tunnelling project at Delhi supports 200 orphans

cial Leader, Mr. L.C.Tripathi, Assistant Manager I.R. and Mr. Suresh Sasikumar, Man-ager EHS presented lunch boxes and geometry boxes to 200 orphans. The children were delighted to receive new gifts and thanked L&T with all their heart.

As a part of its Corporate Social Responsibility, PT&D IC’s project team at 11kV substation and associated LT works site for NDPL at Delhi extended support to Tapo-van Vidya Mandir by dis-tributing syllabus books and writing note books to over 300 students on April 1, 2013.

The program was facili-tated by Mr. A. K. Rajput, Cluster Operation Head and Mr. A. K. Verma, Project Manager- NDPL.

The school is run by vol-unteers of ‘Art of Living’ and helps educating children of the economically weaker sections who cannot afford schooling.

NDPL project team at Delhi supports Tapovan Vidya Mandir

Education being one of the prime focus areas under CSR, the staff at Tata Steel Projects, Jamshedpur donated a digital touch screen Projector to Dakshan Bharath Mahila Samaj, a school in Jamshedpur.

On 20th March, this Projector was presented to Mrs. Rajani Sekhar, Principle and other Management commit-tee members of the DBMS English School. Mr. S.Madhan Kumar, Project Accountant participated in this event along with the site staff. Over 60 students will use this projector and benefit from it.

Tata Steel Project supports the education of 60 children

Engineering Workshop at Kanchipuram develops the infrastructure of a village school

As a part of the organi-zations CSR efforts, L&T’s Engineering Workshop at Kanchipuram reached out to the students of Neerval-lurandPillaichatram Village Primary school.

On 30th March, Mr.R.Nagarajan, Head- En-gineering Workshop along with other senior staff do-nated desks, benches, food plates and tumblers to 130 students studying in the vil-lage school. The school build-ings which were more than 100 years old were painted and Electric Fans were also fixed.

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The staff at Metro Tun-nelling Chennai (L&T SUCG JV) CMRL Project joined hands with M/s Arun Excello and planted 2013 saplings at Estancia Housing project site in Guduvancherry on 7th Jan-uary 2013. The staffs along with the 600 residents at Estancia, teachers and chil-dren of Vidhya Mandir School located in the same premise were involved in planting the saplings in the sprawling campus.

Senior executives from L&T, Arun Excello and CMRL participated in the event and planted a variety of trees.

This includes Termina-lia arjuna, Madhuca lati-folia, Peltaphorum ferru-genum, Pungamea glabra, Tectona species, Syzygi-um cummini, Swetenea

2013 saplings in the year 2013

mahogany, Delonix regea, Bamboosa species, Dal-bergea sisoo, Grevelia ro-busta, Terminalia cattappa, Thorn tree, Mimusops el-angi, Jaccaranda mi-mosifolia, Cassia siamea, Azhadiracta indica, Spatho-dea campanulata, Thesp-

esia populnea, Melia azhad-iracta, Muntingea calapura, Cassia spectablis, Sama-nea saman, Callistemon lan-ceolatus, Kigelia pin-nata, Tabubea rosea, Bauhinea blackiana and Parkia biglandulosa sap-lings.

2100 saplings find new ground at Morarji Desai Government School in Bellary

In its continuous ef-forts towards fostering nature and to compensate its carbon emission, JSW Project site, Bellary organ-ized a massive tree plan-tation drive in Morarji Desai Government School at Mustagatta Village, Bel-

lary District on 25th February. 2100 saplings were planted with the active participation of students & teachers of the school.

Mr. Umasathiyan R, Pro-ject Manager in his address to the students explained on the importance of preserving

As an initiative towards environmental conservation, the team at Anpara CHP-D site planted 40 saplings in Hati Park of UPRVUNL colony on 7th January. Mr R.C.Lal, Chief Engineer, UP-RVUNL and Mr.S.B.Singh, Site-In-Charge participated in this drive along with the site team and UPRVUNL team.

40 saplings planted at anpara site

Mother Nature. During the occasion the School Manage-ment, Teachers and students promised to nurture the sap-lings and assured maximum survival rate by taking care of these saplings.

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Green day at Manapakkam campusL&T Construction’s

Headquarters at Manapa-kkam celebrated Green Day on 2nd March to commemo-rate the 5th anniversary of L&T Project GreenHands and 42nd National Safety Day.

As a part of this celebra-tion, various events were or-ganised at the HQ campus. The staff dressed in Green,

the canteen served Green food, Street play, stalls, nurs-ery activity etc. were organ-ised in the large campus. The event kick started in the morning with a drawing competition where over 80 kids illustrated road safety and electrical safety on can-vass.

This was followed by the unveiling of a new ‘Green Cell’ logo by Mr. S.Kanappan, Head & CEO

L&T GeoStructure in pres-ence of Mr. G.Pichai, VP & Head-Supply Chain Man-agement, Mr. Rajan Ven-kateswaran, Head - Cen-tre for Excellence & Future Development, EDRC along with green volunteers from Project Greenhands and oth-er staff.

Green Cell at HQ is formed with an aim to in-

troduce and implement sus-tainability programmes in the Chennai Campus. Vol-unteers and leads from each building will work on reduc-ing the water consumption, developing the green cover, improving the rain water harvesting, managing solid waste, renewable power and emission control and other green initiatives.

The volunteers and the green enthusiasts signed the

huge banner and pinned an ‘I wear a Green attitude’ badge. Sustainability time table for school children was released during this oc-casion. A 20 minute Street Play (Therukoothu) attracted maximum crowd and the viewers enjoyed the tamil folk dance weaved nicely with a message on “Saving and Growing Trees”. About 15 NGO’s put up their stalls and products in the cam-pus, which was a huge hit. Volunteers from the NGO’s spread the awareness on many green methods and waste collection, which can be part of the sustainable efforts by every individual. Staff and children learnt con-cepts on recycling, reuse and waste management. Hand-made products made out of eco-friendly material were on sale at the campus.

The children were taken to the Holck-Larsen Centre in the campus, which was followed by fun games or-ganized by the volunteers of Project GreenHands. Through short lectures and entertaining videos, kids

were educated on the vari-ous aspects of growing trees and the importance of affor-estation. There was a special session where Swami Sar-vika from Isha Yoga Center. Demonstrations were given and children were guided in various field activities such as preparation of Mother-Bed, preservation and pro-

cessing of Seeds, Preparation of Organic Solvents for the nourishment of the plants. The children and staff were connected to mother earth through preparation of Mix, Packet filling, Shifting of sap-ling, Housekeeping, Seeding and watering... In between they also indulged in inter-esting games at the nursery.

In the concluding ses-sion, volunteers of Project GreenHands were presented with ‘Green Champion and Green Crusader’ badges for their dedication and involve-ment in the Nursery activ-ity by growing and plant-ing 1,50,000 tress in various places in the last 5 years and going strong . Mr. Raja, the gardener at the Nursery was also honoured for his dedi-cated efforts.

Green ChampionsB. MurugesanT.E. Senthil RajaT. JeyachandranN. RavichandranJ. JeyanthiV.S. Ramana

Shobha Srinivasan M. JayaprakashP.T. NarayananMallikarjuna RaoLakshmipriya

This one-of-its-kind memorable event was wonderfully co-ordinated and managed by the EHS team, Recreation Club, Project GreenHands, Green Cell and the Corporate Communications Department.

Green Crusaders K. Umamaheswari M. LavanyaB. ManoranjithamNalinidevi

I wear a Green attitude

Green Champion

Green Crusader

I wear a

Green

attitude

Green

Champion

Green

Crusader

Help is here - to go Green & Manage Waste1. Nizhal www.nizhaltn.org ; 2. Upasana www.upasan.in and Small Steps www.smallsteps.in 3. ReStore – restorechennai@gmail.com4. Vanagam www.vanagam.com5. Exnora Green Pammal – www.greenpammal.in6. Cleanwater – www.cleanwater.co.in 7. The ‘Daily Dump’…… http://www.dailydump.org/

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The Coal Handling Plant-II, Amlohri project in MP planted as many as 300 sap-lings on the 19th January. The Project Manager Mr. B.K. Singh along with Me-chanical In charge Mr. C. Shanmugam, Equipment In charge Mr. P.K. Singh, EHS In charge Mr. S. Mohapatra, Civil In charge Mr. Preetham R.M, Admin In charge Mr. D. Pandey, staff and workmen were involved in the planta-tion drive.

Green drive by CHP-II Amlohri project site - 300 saplings planted

A tree plantation drive and a blood donation camp was organised at NJY Ph-2 Projects – Hassan, CR Patna & Arakalgud on 5th and 6th March.

20 saplings were planted during the tree plantation drive and the blood dona-tion camp that was held in association with Sri Chama-

Tree plantation and blood donation programmes at Hassan

The project team con-tributed the 300 saplings to Mother Nature and further

promised to protect the flora and fauna of the land.

rajendra Hospital, Hassan collected 20 units of blood.

The staff at 3X660MW Koradi TPS Expansion pro-ject- Maha Genco-IU Site

50 saplings planted at Koradi siteorganized a tree plantation program at site.

This programme was

facilitated by Mr. Prashant Saraf, Construction Man-ager, Mr. Pappulal Jarotiya, Manager-Electrical, Mr. Manoj Pawar, Asst Manager-EHS along with the support-ing staff and workmen. 50 saplings were planted dur-ing this program held on 29th January.

50 trees plantation at Parsa Kente CHP site Chhattisgarh

On 1st February, 50 sap-lings were planted in the Labour Colony area of Parsa Kente CHP site. Mr. Sujoy Kumar Das, Project Manager along with the staff, super-visors and workmen of the project site participated in this drive.

Metro Tunnelling Pro-ject site at Delhi (L&T SUCG JV DMRC CC05 Project) planted 245 sap-lings on 23rd & 25th Janu-ary. Senior executives from L&T and DMRC along with the staff and workmen planted the sap-lings at site.

245 saplings planted in the greening activity at DMRC

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400/220/66 kV GIS Sub-station Harsh Vihar project site planted 70 saplings in the premises on 30th Janu-ary. This program was inau-

GIS Substation at Harsh Vihar Delhi plants 70 saplings

gurated by Mr. S. K. Upad-hyay, Project Manager and the entire site team joined hands in this drive.

NFL Panipat site plant-ed 50 saplings in a tree plantation programme held on 16th January. Staff and workmen participated and planted the saplings along with Mr. M.K. Tyagi, Con-struction Manager.

NFL Panipat site plants 50 saplings at site

The staff at R-APDRP Bidar site organized a tree plantation programme on 21st January. The site team planted 25 saplings of Sima-rouba, Guava, Tamarind and Indian Beech plants at the Site Stores, Hanuman, Shiva and Amman Temples.

R-APDRP Bidar site plants 25 saplings in areas surrounding the site

The staff of RGGVY -DK site organized a tree plan-tation programme on 16th March. 70 saplings were planted in the Carmel Col-lege campus at Modankap in the presence of MESCOM Engineers, the College Prin-cipal, students, staff and supervisors. Sweets were distributed to the students during this occasion.

RGGVY -DK site team initiates the plantation of 70 saplings

On the occasion of World Water Day on 22nd March, the staff at CWSS Vellore Package III organ-ised an awareness pro-gramme highlighting the importance of good wa-ter and propagating the concept of tree plantation at the Government High school in Agaramcherry. Over 250 saplings were planted during this occa-sion.

250 saplings planted on World Water Day at CWSS project Vellore

The programme was inaugurated by the Project Manager Mr.K.Hariharan along with Mr. K.Saravanan, Executive Engineer, TWAD Board, Mr.A.K.Palanichamy, Deputy Superinten-dent Engineer, TWAD Board, the Head Mas-ter and Teachers of the school. The Project Man-ager Mr.K.Hariharan conveyed the message on Water Management to all the students. The school’s management ex-pressed their gratitude to L&T Construction for this green initiative.

RVA-LDA Project, Luc-know planted 80 saplings on 16th January as part of the site’s greening initiative.

Mr. M.P. Rao-Head – Pro-ject Planning, Monitoring & Contracts Administration for Residential Business Unit, Mr. G. Narayan- MEP Head (RB&F), Mr. A.V. Giri- Pro-ject Head, Mr. Jitendra Ku-mar-Planning In charge, Mr. Hemant Kumar-Finishing In

80 saplings planted in RVa-lda Project lucknow

charge and the Project Ex-ecution Team were enthu-siastically involved in this plantation drive.

The staff of R-APDRP Bidar site organized a tree plantation programme on 20th February. The site team planted 25 sap-lings including Neem, Simarouba, Guava, Tamarind, Indian Beech plants at various places in Bidar city along the road side to provide shade to the travelers.

Bidar site plants 25 saplings in the city

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The members of Prayas Trust, Chennai visited the Con-structions Skills Training Institute at Kancheepuram on 6th March. Mrs.Meena Subrahmanyan, President Prayas and the team toured the skill training facility and were briefed on the sourcing methodology and training modules by the institute staff.

Prayas visits CSTI Kanchi

Padma Shri. She has found-ed a large number of NGOs in Chennai and rest of the coun-try and is often credited with the honor of setting up the oldest organized social work bodies in India. Her organiza-tion Guild of Service operates more than a dozen units re-

lated to orphanage, Female Literacy, Care and Reha-bilitation of the Disabled etc. She has been honored with Padma Vibhushan, the sec-ond highest civilian honor of India in 1975. This is the very first award for Prayas and today, Prayas is grati-fied to have been honoured with such an award named after Mary Clubwala Jad-hav, the Sheriff of Madras, for its service to the under-privileged community and this motivates the members to strive towards extending support to a much larger community.

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Prayas Trust receives Mary Clubwala Jadhav award for humanitarian service

sage about the good work in the community in which they serve and also with the partnering NGOs, in order to bring more and more can-didates for the institute and thereby provide a job oppor-

The members were im-pressed with the facility and appreciated the opportunity provided by L&T for the ru-ral youth through skill train-ing. The members of Prayas promised to spread the mes-

tunity for many underprivi-leged unemployed youth. The team indulged in a small tree plantation activity or-ganised in the campus.

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Prayas Trust, Chennai conducted a comprehensive Mother & Child health camp at the Prayas Medical Cen-tre in Virugambakkam on 16th March. Doctors from Kamakshi Memorial Hospi-tal screened the women and children between 10 am and 3pm.

Dr. Govindarajan and Dr. Siva Ranjini from Kamakshi Memorial Hospital were pre-

The members of Shrad-dha, the Ladies Club of Kol-kata lent a helping hand to Disha Foundation at Mono-harpukur, Kolkata by do-nating desktop computers on 25th March, for their de-velopment project involving education of slum children. This initiative will benefit around 60 children living in slums in their education.

The members also donat-ed a GE-B 20 Modular Col-our Monitor, B Brun Perfusor Compact Syringe Pump & a Electric Personal Dosimeter to Dr. Saroj Gupta Cancer Center & Research Insti-

Relentless services offered by the ladies club in Kolkata

tute, Kolkata on 25th March. These equipments will be used for the treatment of poor & needy cancer affected children. This initiative will benefit around 8000 new pa-tient and about 45000 follow up patients every year.

On 29th March, the la-dies of Shraddha donated Desirox 500 mg tablets to the Thalassaemia Society of In-dia, Kolkata Branch for the treatment of Thalassemia af-fected patients. This would benefit four Thalassemia major patients undergoing iron chelation therapy for 12 months.

Divisional Corporate- BLRO, RMZ Galleria site & Prayas Trust, Bangalore joined hands in bringing cheer in the lives of Andal Girls Home kids. On 5th January, children and staff of St. Andal Girls Home along with the Prayas members

Mother & Child health camp organised by Prayas benefits 121 members in the community

sent during the inauguration along with the doctors, staff, office bearers and members of Prayas and staff of L&T. Prayas presented the ‘well baby’ award to three healthy babies during this camp.

The Gynecologist and Pediatricians screened 121 patients in this camp and the X-ray and laboratory facili-ties were are also utilized by the patients.

RMZ site, blRo & Prayas Trust join hands in creating a fun day for the kids of st. andal Girls Home

went on a picnic to Lumbini Gardens in Bangalore. RMZ site, BLRO and Prayas Trust together made the necessary arrangements and shared the expenses of this trip.

The children started hav-ing fun right from the firt boat ride followed by un-

limited enjoyment at the Artificial Beach, Kids Pool, Wave Pool, Dry Rides, Break Dance, Columbus, Caterpil-lar, Bull Ride, Childrens’ Play Area, etc.. The kids relished the entire day and went back with pleasant memories.

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Hyderabad Metro Con-nects – a celebration of two most popular eco-friendly commutes – Cycling and the Metro Rail.

The energetic and enthu-siastic team from L&T Con-struction – Hyderabad Metro Rail Project successfully completed the 27.51kms cy-cling event organised by L&TMRHL on 18th Febru-ary. More than 5000 riders including corporate employ-ees, students and citizens were a part of this massive community ride which aims at promoting greater use of public transportation and eco-friendly commuting among citizens and youth.

HMRP team pedals for a Green cause The ride was conducted on the proposed Blue Line Met-ro Corridor between Nagole and Shilparamam through 23 areas at which metro sta-tions have been proposed, and culminated at Nagole with a grand felicitation cer-emony.

(Partners of this event

include Hyderabad Metro Rail, The Atlanta Founda-tion under the aegis L&T Metro (Hyderabad) Ltd).

Mr C Vasudev – Head Commercial Services, L&T - Hyderabad Metro Rail Pro-ject received the memento from the Chairman, Atlanta Foundation.

On occasion of Inter-national Women’s Day, 3X660MW Koradi, Maha Genco-IU project reached out to the women at Kamthi Grampanchayat, Nagpur. The site team distributed sewing machines to 10 wom-en who come from below the

Koradi site donates sewing machines and initiates tailoring classes for underprivileged women

poverty line backgrounds and have lost their husbands to destiny. Tailoring classes have also been arranged to teach the ladies.

With the objective of empowering the ladies and making them independent to support their children,

Mr. Jacob George (Manager-Accounts), Mr. Manoj Pawar (Asst. Manager-EHS), Mr. Bikram Mahapatra (Asst. Construction Manager), Mr. Subrata Ghosh (Asst. Manag-er-Store) & Cluster Coordi-nator from Mumbai (PT&D IC) facilitated this initiative to support the women.

L&T Construction sup-ported Isha Foundation (a non-religious, not-for-profit, public service organization) to organize a mega Outreach programme (sports competi-tions and cultural event) on the eve of Pongal (harvest festival in Tamil Nadu) be-tween 13 and 15 January, 2013 around 48 villages near Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.

The objective of this pro-gramme was to fasten the bond between the villagers to live in harmony and it also served as a perfect platform to exhibit their skills. The events include cycling, run-ning, brisk walking, lemon & spoon, needle & thread, balloon breaking, tug of war, musical chair, three legged race, lucky corner and cul-tural events like Kummi, Karagam, Kalayil, Thappat-tam, Oyilattam, Uri Adithal, etc. These events also help nurturing our rich tradition and culture.

L&T Construction supports Isha’s outreach programme to propagate cultural sprit in 48 villages

L&T Construction sup-ported these cultural events as a part of its CSR efforts. A team from Construction Skills Training Institute, Chennai participated in the events held at Kuppa-nur, Madhampatti, Madh-varayapuram, Thondamuth-ur, Parameswaranpalayam, Gandhi Colony, Theenampa-layam and Nadhegoundan-pudur villages and created an awareness about the skill training imparted by CSTI for the rural youth. CSTI team interacted with the vil-lagers and explained the dif-ferent trades being taught at CSTI and the benefits and opportunities the student get after the training. Mr.S Natarajan, Head-CSTI also participated in the conclud-ing events and addressed the gathering.

Over 10,000 people par-ticipated in the events and over 40,000 people gathered/witnessed the programs.

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The lady employees of EDRC-M&M, EDRC-BMH, HR, Accounts, PT&D, Fer-rous BU and Technology Cell of Godrej Waterside and Technopolis office at Kolkata had a wonderful

Ladies at Kolkata spent a special day with 80 destitute children

time on International Wom-en’s Day while they spent their time in the midst of the destitute girl children at SU-KANYA. The 80 girls who have found a new home at SUKANYA were either res-

cued from child trafficking or physical torture.

The ladies presented gifts like books, pens, biscuits and chocolates for the girls who stories brought anguish in everybody’s heart. An induc-

‘Mannvaasanai 2013’ - A Campaign on Awareness and Education over Sustain-ability and Environmental Projects for city schools was initiated by Dr V R Devika of Aseema Trust. A week-long campaign that commenced from 21st January and culmi-nated on 30th January with a mega mela at Valluvar Kot-tam in Chennai covered over 10 schools across 8000 chil-dren / teachers and parents.

The Aseema Trust has been working on building bridges between traditional performing arts and educa-tion for over a decade now and does a theme-based an-nual campaign to educate students on taking tradition-al route to trace routes.

This year’s mela focused on Green Way of Living and this was illustrated to the students, with their partici-pation, through folk dances of South India - oyilattam,

L&T Construction partners with Aseema Trust in a massive campaign on Sustainability Projects for Chennai city schools

tion oven and tape recorder was also given to the home.

The innocent smile in the face of every child, in-tense happiness in their eyes, warm hugs and a small cul-

tural programme by the chil-dren of SUKANYA served as a return gift for the ladies on Women’s Day.

therukoothu, storytelling and interactive sessions and projects. NGO and individu-als engaged in green ideas, safe food, eco-friendly hand-icrafts also took part in this educative engagement.

This fine initiative was supported by L&T as a part of the Corporate Social Re-sponsibility. L&T‘s CSR team distributed 1000 free CDs called ‘Hello Earth’ (a novel quiz programme on ‘Go Green’, designed innova-tively for the school children) and 1200 saplings, that were nurtured in L&T’s Nursery at the Chennai Campus.

L&T’s Project Green-Hands team also interacted with the school students and briefed on the Green Mis-sion and the importance of sustainability. Class teach-ers were presented with the ‘Sustainability Time Table’ designed and printed by L&T.

L&T Construction’s 2011 calendar theme on Engineer-ing & Construction marvels of ancient India was made into attractive displays in English and Tamil for the benefit of the large student fraternity who visited the mela.

L&T utilized this plat-form to connect with the younger generation/teach-ers & public, its role in envi-ronment and sustainability while also informing people about the Newsweek’s rank-ing L&T as the World’s 4th Greenest Company in the industrial sector ….and L&T also bagging the prestigious UK-based Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Top 10 rank-ing. Sustainability Time Table for Schools

Stop in the name of the Earth - Enviornment CD for School Children

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L&T organizes a memorable Heritage Tour for 60 elderly people

As many as 50 elders who reside in the old age homes run by Helpage India were sponsored for a Heritage Tour to Kancheepuram on 7th January by L&T Con-struction.

The tour was flagged off from the Headquarters in Chennai by Mr. B Ram-akrishnan, EVP - Finance & Accounts (Construction) in the presence of Mr. V S Ramana, Zonal Coordina-tor CSI - Chennai zone and Head- Corporate Commu-nications, ECC Recreation Club committee members, representatives from L&T Infotech and Helpage In-dia’s Chief Executive Mr. Mathew Cherian, and Mr. P.R.Anbazhakan - Territory

L&Tites in Qatar cel-ebrated the National Sports Day with full enthusiasm and energy by organizing a “Walk” in Doha – Cor-niche on 12th February. The walking stretch started from Doha Corniche Post office to Hotel Sheraton and back.

Qatar Government has declared the second Tues-day of February each year

L&T participates in Qatar National Sports Day Celebrations

to be the National Sports Day. Various Government & Private organizations in Qatar have organized similar events in the City of Doha which created aware-ness among the public for involvement in sporting and physical activity.

L&T’s initiative to organ-ize a National Sports Day Walk was well received and appreciated by the public.

L&T supported Portraits of India - Megafest

L&T supported a Meg-afest – “Portraits of India”, organised by V-excel Educa-tional Trust which celebrat-ed ten years of advocacy for persons with special needs on 10th January 2013 at YMCA Nandanam in Chen-nai. The Megafest included exhibits depicting India’s essence, colourful perfor-mances by children, foods of different flavours, traditional games, products and craft made by special persons, be-sides a few interactive stalls and handicrafts from various regions of the country. Chil-dren from regular schools were invited so that they get a forum to interact with and are sensitized to persons with special needs and their abilities.

Girisha Hosanagara Na-garajgowda, the Silver Me-dalist for High Jump at the recent London Paralympics 2012, was the Guest of Hon-our, while the Chief Guest was Maj Gen [Retd] Ian Car-dozo, AVSM, SM, Chairman

of Rehabilitation Council of India.

During this occasion, L&T’s Corporate Social Re-sponsibility team freely dis-tributed 1000 saplings from our Project Green Hands nursery and interactive CD’s on Environment and Conser-vation – “Stop in the Name of Earth”.

Head Helpage India graced the event.

L&T hosted breakfast at the Convention Centre din-ing hall for all the partici-pants of the tour followed by a small Pooja at the Ganesha

temple to mark an auspi-cious start for their safe jour-ney.

The elders were very hap-py with the hospitality and thanked L&T for the kind gesture.

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On Saturday the 23rd February at the YMCA grounds in Nandanam, over 600 children from hearing impaired schools in Chen-nai excitedly chattered away in sign language while they played games and relished a

l&T supports deaf enabled Foundation’s mela for hearing impaired children

wholesome meal at the full daymela organised by Deaf Enabled Foundation.

The famous Film Direc-tor Mr. S. M Vasanth was the Chief Guest at the event. Mr.Vasanth and Mr. V. S Ramana, Head Corporate

Communications & CSR who enable L&T support the cause, distributed mementos and gifts to all the children. Mr.Vasanth complimented DEF for their noble work and made a personal assurance to DEF for any support in the future.

The Chief Executive Of-ficer of the Deaf Enabled Foundation [DEF] Mr. T. K. M. Sandeep used the sign language to communicate effectively to the gathering. Interpreting that ably was Ms. M. Ramya the key con-nect for DEF communicating with the other world.

Mr.Ramana shared his happiness in being able to support the cause and re-quested DEF team to visit L&T campus and impart training.

Sign Languages - one can easily learn...http://def.org.in/sign-language/learn-sign-language.htmlhttp://def.org.in/

Excerpts from an interaction with Mr. R. Dhanasekaran, Quality Manager, Blood Bank – Indian Red Cross Society about the process which makes blood ready to save a life from the time it is donated…

Journey of the Gift of Life

Commencing from the collection centre, when the collected blood leaves [in the stored form], the team of technicians, after having put in some nine hours of work – collecting blood - have to immediately put in another six hours of labour to pro-cess the samples / separate the component by meticu-lous testing and put it to right Storage.

Blood Collection The most common type

of blood donation is a whole blood collection. Approxi-mately 450 ml of blood is collected from donors above 55 kg in weight and 350 ml from donors who are above 45 kg in weight by aseptic venepuncture. The whole blood is collected in a bag which is coated with anti-coagulant citrate phosphate dextrose solution that main-tains the red blood cell vital-ity for a specific storage peri-od and prevents clotting. At blood camps, it is the normal procedure to collect blood units in a single bag and later on separate the components such as red blood corpus-cles, platelets and plasma through automation process in laboratories. In addition to the single collection bag, there are also additional bags which are used when there is a need to extract specific components of blood.

The collected blood is separated component wise at the laboratory within six hours. The process of separa-tion is done through refrig-erated blood bag centrifuge

equipment by a series of low / high spinning movements amidst heat and cooling ef-fect that separates the com-ponents. Major components of blood include: type of positive or negative

as Rh factor and the blood is subjected to safety testing through an Enzyme Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay (ELISA) reader. The ELISA reader screens the blood for anti-bodies such as virus, bacteria and allergens. Based on the screening, the tagged sample is matched with col-lected and separated blood units kept in the quarantine cell (Unscreened Blood Bank Refrigerator). The healthy blood units including the separated components are moved to the screened cell (Screened Blood Bank Refrig-erator).

Blood units which are detected with virus, bacteria and allergens are moved to the discard refrigerator. The virus infected blood is in-cinerated and later only the leftover fluid is handed over to Biomedical waste dispos-ers. The blood bank commu-nicates to the donor through its public relation officer / counsellor in a confidential manner on the detection of virus and provides guidance to the individual on treat-ment of the ailment.

Quality Assessment Programme

It is mandatory for all blood banks to submit 1% of the blood units collected for internal / external quality control and quality assur-ance. In addition to this, the blood banks are audited by the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Health-care Providers (NABH) on a quarterly basis. National Accreditation Board for Hos-pitals & Healthcare Provid-ers (NABH) is a constituent board of Quality Council of India, set up to establish and operate accreditation programme for healthcare organisations. The accredi-tation programme assesses the quality and operational systems in place within the facility. The accreditation in-cludes compliance with the NABH standards, applicable laws and regulations includ-ing guidelines set by Nation-al AIDS Control Organisa-tion (NACO).

Following the blood’s journey from donation to processing to transfusion would make this noblest of act an Enriching experience for every donor.

Component Storage Storage Temperature Tenure

Whole Human Blood.I.P. 2-4°C 35 daysPacked Red Blood Corpuscles.I.P (with additive 2-4°C 42days SAGM solution added)Fresh Frozen Plasma.B.P.. ≤ - 40°C up to 12 monthsPlatelet Concentrate.U.S.P. ± 22°C up to 5 daysCryo Precipitate AHF ≤ - 30°C up to 12 months.

When a component is separated from the whole blood, it is stored in a spe-cialised blast freezer at -80°C temperature and later moved over to specific stor-age refrigerators. Blood bank refrigerators are specialised cold storage units equipped with temperature control, temperature chart recorder and automatic alarm. The re-frigerators depending on its capacity can store anywhere between 50 to 600 units. Larger hospitals and blood banks are equipped with cold storage rooms for stor-ing greater number of units. For specific blood require-ments, the components are prepared in a Laminar Flow Cabinet (biologically safe cabinet) in sterile air.

Blood Screening(After collecting blood, test-ing will be done)

At blood donation camps when there are large num-bers of donors, immediate screening of blood is not done as the process of blood safety assessment involves approximately a time peri-od of 3 to 5 hours and mak-ing donors wait for such a long period is not feasible. A blood sample is collected from every donor after the individual completes the mini physical test. The sam-ple is tagged and sent for a screening and the blood is collected from the donor.

At the laboratory the samples are identified and typed which includes the ABO blood grouping, Rh

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Beneficiaries of CSR ProgrammeApril - June’12 July - Sept’12 Oct - Dec’12 Jan-Mar’13 Cumulative Apr 2011 - Mar 2012 beneficiaries

1266 1439 1135 4574 8414 6447

12685 10779 8342 7310 39116 20845

8484 3448 1135 17821 30888 11721

6850 16612 13956 9282 46700 142953

120 225 3300 2255 5900 54142

Beneficiaries of CSR Programme

Chennai Cycling 2013 - South India’s biggest mass mobilizing Cycling event with the aim of promoting healthy living and a green-er mode of transport had a whopping 5,500 Chennaiites showing up on 3rd March along the marina beach drive. The event kicked off at 5 am, with actor Karthi flagging off rides in six categories such as kids ride, green ride, celebrity ride, ride for a cause, etc.,

530 employees from L&T Construction showed a keen interest for participation. The event organizing com-

530 L&Tites at Chennai Cycling 2013

mittee team headed by Mr. V. S. Ramana, Head – Cor-porate Communications, Mr. P. Chandra Mohan, Head – Resources & Supply Chain Management and Mr. K. Sen-thil Kumar, Sr. Manager QA/QC ensured that everything functioned as planned, right from distribution of kits to the transportation facilities.

It is a matter of great pride for L&T that due to the over-whelming response from its employees, L&T has won the Corporate Power Pedal Award-2013.

Some glimpses of L&T @ Chennai Cycling 2013.

L&T protects Tribals and anti-poaching watchers of the Forest Department

The Pollachi-based National History Trust had conceived a project to help Tribals and anti-poaching watchers of the Forest Department. These tribals often face hardship like snake bites and man-animal conflict, often leading to serious injury or losing their lives.

The Trust had proposed to supply the Tribals and anti-poaching watchers with Britelite torches and hunter shoes to help them spot animals at a distance and avoid contact. Also the wearing of appropriate foot wear would prevent snake bites. The anti-poaching watchers would enter the forest with greater confidence and guard with more zeal, which will go a long way in conserving our forests on which we all depend. Towards this, they sought help from L&T’s.

L&T helped provide 100 sets of torches and footwear to

these tribals along the forest fringe areas.A symbolic event was held at the Government School at Topslip, Anamalai on 23rd March 2013. Dr. Rajeev K. Srivastava, IFS., Chief Conservator of Forests presided over an event with Mr. S Arokiaraj Xavier, Forest Range Officer. From the Natural History Trust, Dr. Vasanth Alva (President) and Mr. S Mohamed Ali (Secretary) thanked L&T for the support. They appreciated L&T’s Green initiatives and the company’s other efforts in Green Building and Sustainability programmes.