Understanding the importance of developing villages to fast track India’s growth story, Tata Power on Wednesday announced that the company aims to transform Kadachimeth, a tribal village in the Thane District of Maharashtra, into a model village by 2017.
With more than 90 percent of Adivasi (tribal) population, the village is deprived of basic amenities and the standard of living is poor. In the next 3 years, the Company plans to engage in developing it into a clean and green village with good roads, good education facilities, medical outreach, and solid infrastructure, so that the village becomes a role-model for the neighboring villages to emulate.
Tata Power has assigned a team of employees to execute the development work, who will further be supported with the time and talent of other employee volunteers so as to harness the energy of the entire Tata Power family through a spirit of ‘Shramdaan’.
Commenting on this development, Anil Sardana, CEO and Managing Director, Tata Power stated, “Our Hon’ble Prime Minister gave a call to each MP to adopt a village. At Tata Power, we are pursuing the legacy of our founder, Mr. Jamshetji Tata, who had stated that in a free enterprise, community is not just a stakeholder but in fact the very purpose of its existence. With this philosophy, we will work towards building and developing Kadachimeth into a model village to bring about social upliftment and inclusive development of the community. We will provide full support to our team, and will help them transform Kadachimeth as the most aspired village of the neighborhood from being the most deprived.”