The Bhilai Steel Plant under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative has selected 21 villages as ‘Adarsh Ispat Grams’ ( model steel villages) for the provision of all basic facilities such as education, medical treatment, roads, potable water etc.
The facilities being provided are — community halls, two additional class rooms. shades at cremation grounds, cementing of roads in two ‘Adarsh Ispat Grams’, BSP officials informed.
Similar facilities would be provided for the remaining 19 adopted villages, they stated.
Till date 244 free medical check-up camps and 22 for eye check up camps were conducted in 21 adopted villages. Moreover, the Bhilai Ispat Kalayan Chikitsalaya was founded for free treatment of BPl families, where total of 23,643 patients availed the facility of free treatment in the year 2013-14. AIDS Control, Cancer Awareness, RCH, Family Planning etc are other activities being undertaken with the cooperation of Medical and Health Services of the Bhilai Steel Plant .