Steel company Mesco’s flagship Mideast Integrated Steel limited (MISl) has recently bagged the CSR Gold Award for carrying out anti-malaria and anti-dengue campaigns in its project sites in Barbil and Jajpur.
The company also earned laurels for its health facilities programmes like organising health checkup camps and running 24x7 dispensaries for the local community.
The Award for CSR Initiatives 2016-Value Driven Social Change was organised by the Institute of Environment and Quality Management System in collaboration with the Rotary Heritage here. Chief guest Board of Revenue member Ashok Tripathy gave away the prize.
Receiving the award, Mesco Steel general manager (works) Digambar Panda said, “The Mesco Group believes in improving the quality of lives of men, women and children in the villages. For this, we are making a humble beginning to serve the community with basic health and hygiene needs.”
Mesco Steel AGM (CSR) Savita Sethi, who also received the award, said, “The CSR team is working relentlessly to step up our activities to ensure that maximum number of people avail the benefits of our programmes. We will continue to work with relentless passion.”
Mesco Group CMD Rita Singh said, “Welfare of the communities that we work with has been integral to the philosophy of our group. Such recognitions keep us motivated.”