HDFC Bank has constructed over 1,000 Sanitation and Water units for school students at 274 schools in Chhattisgarh, as a part of its Corporate Social Responsibility initiative.
These units are located in 133 villages across 13 districts and will benefit more than 45,000 students in the State, informed a Bank press release.
This initiative is aimed at addressing problem areas in education like sanitation, which leads to students dropping out of school.Through this initiative, the Bank has identified schools in various states of India which lacked sanitation and clean drinking water facilities.
To address the problem, over 5,000 units have been constructed in 854 schools in 557 villages across 82 districts spread over 8 states thus benefiting over 1.16 lakh students.
At a function organized in Samertal, Bhaskar Chatterjee, Director General and CEO, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, inaugurated and handed over the sanitation and water facilities to school authorities.