GMR Chhattisgarh Energy limited (GCEl) bagged the prestigious Think Media Inc-instituted Best CSR Practice Award for 2014, a statement of the company said on Tuesday. The company added that this is the second time that a GMR Group company has won Think Media's CSR award this year. In neighbouring Odisha, this award was won by GMR Kamalanga Energy.
The GCEl's award-winning entry was titled, 'VDC: A one-in-all package for CSR.' The VDC (Village Development Centre) is the physical facility created by GCEl at Raikheda Village in Chhattisgarh's Raipur district from which GMR Varalakshmi Foundation (GMRVF), the CSR arm of the GMR Group, engages people in GCEl's project neighbourhoods with tangible inputs resulting in measurable transformative changes in community health, education, livelihoods and empowerment outcomes.
The winning criteria included, among others, the significance of issues addressed, scale of impact, people's participation, innovativeness, etc.GMR Infrastructure ltd is a Bangalore headquartered global infrastructure major with interests in airports, energy, highways and urban infrastructure sectors. It has successfully employed the public-private partnership model to build a portfolio of high quality assets.
The Company has 15 power generation assets of which 8 are operational and 7 are under various stages of development and 8 road assets, of which 7 are operational and one is under construction.