The Town Administration Department of the Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) will be opting for door-to-door garbage collection in Sector- 1, 2 and 3 of Bhilai Township, officials stated.
Moreover, BSP is developing as many as 21 villages in the periphery of Bhilai township which have been identified for adoption as ‘model steel villages'.
The BSP’s CSR Department is also engaging in a number of activities in the adopted villages such as empowering the rural folk, specially the women under the Swyamsiddha or self-employment project, providing basic infrastructure facilities development as well as activities aimed at providing school children opportunities to express their talent, officials informed.
Notably, in 2007, the BSP established 'Bhilai Ispat Vikas Vidyalaya' and 'Ispat Kalyan Chikitsalaya' for the benefit of the economically backward section of society in the township and its periphery.
The BSP has also adopted over 100 tribal children, providing free residential education, accommodation and meals. The mega-sports event that Bhilai has been organising in Narayanpur for tribal school-children for three consecutive years since 2006 attracts more than 1500 students from schools in remote areas of Bastar every year, officials stated.
The company has also adopted four girls from Abujhmad area of Bastar for their education in Bhilai Nursing College.