Vedanta ESL Steel Limited has focused on health, safety, environment and sustainability in the year 2021. ESL's endeavour was towards betterment of its society and community. In this last year, ESL has been continuously working towards the development of the society and the State with the best possible capacity.
Speaking on the occasion, NL Vhatte, CEO, ESL said, “ESL has always been committed towards the health, safety and development of the people of state.
So that we have been able to save the residents of Bokaro from the severe epidemic like Corona and vaccinate more than 3.6 lakh people. ESL is fully ready to vaccinate the youth of 15-18 years.”
ESL in association with Bokaro district administration has been committed towards the health, safety and development of the people of Jharkhand.
In the 3-day Badminton tournament organized with the initiative of Bokaro District Administration "Right Food, Better Life", Smriti of ESL was awarded first prize in singles along with Smriti and Saika got second prize in doubles. This 3-day tournament ended on December 30, 2021, in which mainly Bokaro DC Kuldeep Chaudhary, SDO Dilip Singh Shekhawat, Bokaro SP Chandan Kumar Jha, District Sports Officer Markus Hembram were mainly present.
ESL CEO, NL Vhatte, Chief Operating Officer, Ravish Sharma and Chief Security Officer, Sumit Burman including many higher officials of ESL Kundan Karn and Sanjay Sinha were present during the event.
It is noteworthy that ESL is always conscious and responsible towards the health and safety of its employees. With the fear of the third wave of Corona, ESL has issued all the instructions to all its employees and business partners to avoid the corona epidemic.
ESL has mandated 2 days of safety training for all its new employees and developed Animated Video Based Incident Learning in English and Hindi to avoid incidents. Last month, National Energy Conservation Week was also organized by ESL for environmental protection, in which everyone took a pledge to adopt renewable energy.
ESL has always been ready towards social responsibility as well. Many projects for the society are also being run by ESL, including Arogya Project, Prerna Project, Jeevika Project, Wadi Project, Dronacharya Project and Nandghar.
Under the Arogya Project, free primary health facilities are being provided in 27 villages and every year 40000 villagers are being benefitted. Prerna Project is an education project which aims at providing quality and equal education opportunity to the student. ESL is also running 15 remedial coaching centers benefitting more than 700 children in the CSR operational area.
The best students of 10th class from Prerna Kendra have been given a smartphone and a certificate by the CEO of ESL. A project Jeevika ensures the socio-economic empowerment of women, more than 1000 women are getting the benefit of this project.
Also with the intention of providing safe drinking water, the company has taken several steps under the Swajal project. This project is providing safe drinking water to more than 40000 villagers of 27 villages of ESL CSR operational area.