CSR Newsletter from L&T Construction 2012 : July | August | September - Volume 4

In this issueEditor’s NoteJust three Quarters ago, the first issue of Reaching Out was

born – covering the activities and CSR events within L&T Con-struction.

With each issue passing, innumerable events and CSR ac-tivities have been swelling, growing manifold. Reaching Out has truly been reaching out to L&T-ites and to outsiders too – to our business associates and CSR players across many or-ganizations/institutions.

The diversity of our project-execution, the multitude loca-tions / sites where L&T-ites have been executing projects, the CSR initiatives at such locations, the ‘nightingale touch’ by our Prayas Teams, all these have been well-captured by the CCD team in this unique tabloid-sized publication.

What’s more, as a commitment to the Sustainability Drive, these are being circulated more as an ‘e-publication’ and a very limited print-run passes through the hands of our sen-iors, departmental heads, at the reception desks of offices and guest houses.

ABCI [the Association of Business Communicators of In-dia, Mumbai], in their 52nd Annual Event, has awarded the ABCI Gold Award to ‘Reaching Out’!

This comes as a crowning glory of the cumulative work of the entire L&T-ites in their CSR endeavor, and to the CCD Team at Chennai, that has been capturing and rendering this very attractive ‘Reaching Out’, over these three quarters of 2012, so well. The Communication strategy to hive off CSR sto-ries out of the ECC News and to create a separate publication, has indeed been the seed to this first fruits of the endeavour.

Hearty Congratulations to every CSR player and to every bit of CSR initiative being carried out through the length and breadth of L&T operation! Without your ‘Giving’, there would be no reporting!! We did not give, anticipating an award or a recognition.

Nevertheless, this recognition is a shot-in-the-arm and will tremendously help, not only the CCD team, but also the entire EHS team at L&T Construction and to every single volunteer, who expresses his/her giving to the society; helping in Sus-tainability, to Economic and Social growth, Health, Education and support to the needy within the community where we constantly operate.

In the 75th Year of L&T, may L&T Construction, by the might of its scope and size, express itself to a mighty ‘Giving’, exceeding its CSR goals and truly justify to what we are also well-known for – in our ‘REACHING OUT’.

Our Greetings for a great festive time ahead. Editor

PRAYAS inaugurated a Dialysis Unit in its new state-of-the-art Medical Cen-tre Building at Virugam-baakam on 27th September. Mr.K.V. Rangaswami, Advi-sor to Chairman L&T along with Dr. Govindarajan, Di-rector, President & Founder - Dr. Kamakshi Memorial Hospital inaugurated the Dialysis Unit in the presence of Mr. S.N. Subrahmanyan, Senior Executive Vice Presi-dent (Infrastructure & Con-struction), Dr. Kamat, Medi-cal Director – L&T Powai, Dr. Usha Krishna, Advisor, Medical Centre & Welfare, Mr. Ajit Singh, Executive

Vice President Corporate In-frastructure & Services and the members & office bearers of Prayas Trust.

Currently, the dialysis unit has six dialysis ma-chines, with a provision to add another six machines. Electricity supply, water outlet, oxygen and suction pump etc. have all been pro-vided in this area.

This Dialysis unit is like-ly to treat 312 patients in a month at a very nominal fee of Rs.500 per patient. L&T has collaborated with Dr.Kamakshi Memorial Hospital for this endeavour. A technical team from Dr.

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Health

Prayas

Blood Donation

Education

Tree Plantation

L&Teering

This Medical Centre is the core project of PRAYAS and here PRAYAS organ-izes medical check-ups and dispenses medicines for over 150 patients a day through qualified medical practition-

ers. Free specialized camps for Eye, Gynec, Ortho, Moth-er & Child Camp, Cancer Awareness Camp and Ab-dominal Scans are conducted periodically with the help of medical advisors from lead-ing hospitals in Chennai. Through January to June 2012, the Centre has served around 10685 patients in the Virugambakkam vicinity.

Kamakshi Memorial Hos-pital (KMH) including doc-tors, technicians, nurses and nephrologist will provide the necessary assistance to perform dialysis on a day to day basis.

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A Blood Donation Drive was organized at Mumbai Monorail Pro-ject in association with Sir JJ Group of Hospi-tals, Mumbai. 164 units of blood was collected from this drive.

Mr. S D Patil - Project Manager & Mr. R K Nagrajan inau-gurated the camp and this was followed by a tree plantation activity at the office premise.

Mumbai Monorail Project donates 164 units of blood

RVA LDA Project Organizes Blood Donation Camp

MIAL staff and workmen donate 650 units of blood

As a part of the Platinum Jubilee year celebrations, the MIAL staff and workmen donated 650 units of blood to KEM Blood Bank and Nair hospital on 13th and 14th September, 2012. The Project Director Mr. Niranjan Simha

donated blood and flagged off this initiative.

blood donation campsblood donation camps

RVA LDA Project, Luc-know organized a blood do-nation camp in association with Ram Manohar Lohiya Hospital. Mr. Neeraj Kumar, LDA’s Electrical Engineer,

A voluntary Blood Dona-tion Camp was organised on 3rd September at the Con-struction Skills Training In-stitute (CSTI), Attibele Ben-galuru in association with the Indian Red Cross Society (Karnataka State Branch).

CSTI trainees along with the staff actively volun-teered to support this noble cause and over 45 units of blood was donated. CSTI

Bengaluru has been organ-izing blood donation camps year on year and this camp is fourth in a row.

As an appreciation of the

45 units of blood collected at csti bengaluru

commendable effort, Indian Red Cross Society presented a Certificate of Appreciation to the CSTI team

inaugurated the camp and donated blood. Staff from all three projects actively partic-ipated and 54 units of blood was donated.

As the Kohinoor Square project, Mumbai achieved 14 million safe man hours, the site team organized a five day long blood dona-

Blood donation camp at Kohinoor Square project tion drive starting on 3rd September. This camp was organized in association with Kohinoor Hospital, Mumbai. The camp was in-

augurated by Mr. Srinivas Samudrala, Project Direc-tor and 39 donors contrib-uted towards this cause.

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Blood donation camp at SWD Jabalpur Project site

blood donation campsblood donation camps

HWHTL Project Organizes Blood Donation Camp

67 units of blood donated by BTTL Tezpur site

A voluntary blood dona-tion camp was organized by HWHTL Project at Uluberia-Howrah on 26th August. A good response was received

Blood Donation Camp was organized on 29th Sep-tember at BTTL – Tezpur, Assam. A thirteen mem-ber medical team from

to Uluberia District Hos-pital. Certificates were is-sued to all the donors by the State Blood Transfusion Council.

from the staff, supervisors, subcontractors and depart-mental workmen.

In total, 67 units of blood was collected and donated

Voluntary blood dona-tion camp was organized at SWD Jabalpur Project site on 22nd September in asso-ciation with Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical Col-lege. Over 20 units of blood was collected from this camp.

A Blood Donation Camp was organised at the Toll Plaza of L&T Chennai Tada Tollway Project on 30th Sep-tember in association with Lions Blood Bank Chennai.

blood donation camp at cttl

Kanakalata State Civil Hos-pital, Assam conducted this programme. 67 units of blood was collected from this camp.

The mobile van of Lions’ Blood Bank was deployed at the Toll Plaza between 10 am and 2 pm and over 37 units of blood was collected dur-ing this camp.

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Health camp at Varanasi Kanpur TL project

Nashik Elevated Corridor Project organised a compre-hensive eye camp for work-men and staff on 28th Sep-tember. The eye tests were

HealtH campsMEDICAL CAMP

300 workmen benefit from an AIDS awareness programme

An HIV/ Aids Awareness programme was organised at the project sites of 2x660MW STPP at Mauda Ph-II, B-IE-3X660 MW Koradi TPS ex-pansion project-Maha Gen-co-IU and B-SS-400/220kV S/S at Warora-MSETCL on 23rd and 24th August. Over 300 workmen participated in this programme and were educated about the causes of HIV infection and the vari-ous preventive measures.

Mr.Mrunal Yadav, Pro-ject coordinator from Sahy-adri Foundation, Nagpur briefed the workers about facts & figures of HIV/ AIDS infection in India. Mr. J R Gupta (Project Manager), Mr.Vikas Patil and Mr. P M Saraf (Construction Manag-ers) along with Mr. Jacob George (Manager Accounts) and Mr. Manoj Pawar (Asst. Manager-EHS) facilitated this Awareness Programme.

500 workmen benefit from a general health screening camp

The staff at AAP Lapan-ga site organized a three day medical camp on 13th, 14th & 18th August for the work-men at site. This programme was inaugurated by Mr. De-basish Mallick, GM -Aditya Birla Group in the presence of the Project Manager Mr. K. K. Bhattacharya and Ad-ministration Head Mr. D. Ghosh. Mr. T. Kumaresan BU-Head and Mr. P. Tika-dar, site coordinator- Kolka-ta Cluster office also joined this camp. Over 500 work-men benefitted from this programme.

The staff at DMRC, Man-sarovar site organized a Medical Camp on 17th Sep-tember for the workmen at site. This programme was inaugurated by Mr. M. K. Singal GM – DMRC and the Jaipur Cluster Head Mr. S. K. Saxena in the presence of the Project Manager Mr. Y. S Chauhan and Accounts &

200 workmen benefit from a general health screening camp

Administration Manager Mr. K. S. Chatterjee & Mr.Ashish Dabre – EHS (Engineer). Over 200 workmen benefit-ted from this programme.

bhushan steel project organizes Free malaria and Health check-up camp

Bhushan Steel, Angul or-ganized a free Malaria and Health Check-up camp for staff and workmen on 3rd August. Mr. Amlan Kusum Dutta, Cluster Accounts Manager, Kolkata inaugu-rated the camp. Mr.Tinanjan Mitra, Project Manager, Mr. C.Srinivas Rao, Ms.Krishna Ghosh Hazra and Mr.N Ravi Swaminathan were the oth-

er senior staff present dur-ing the occasion. Over 1250 workmen were screened for

malaria test and 3250 for blood pressure, viral fe-ver etc.

250 beneficiaries at a health camp organized by DMRC site

On World Heart Day, the staff at DMRC CC-05 Project organized a Health camp for all the staff and workmen at site. This medical camp in-cluded Blood Pressure check, ECG, Height, Weight, Dental screening etc.

A free medical camp was organized at Varanasi Kan-pur TL project site on 30th September. Staff and work-men participated in this pro-gramme and various tests in-cluding blood sugar and BP was conducted. The tetanus vaccine was given to work-men as a preventive meas-ure. Over 120 people benefit-ted from this programme.

comprehensive eye screening camp at nashik elevated corridor project

conducted by experienced Ophthalmologists from Vasan Eye Care, Nashik. A total of 184 staff and workmen ben-efitted from this programme.

The camp was held on two days, 28th and 29th Sep-tember and over 250 par-ticipants benefitted from this initiative.

Senior executives from DMRC & L&T participated in this health initiative.

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Rajpura Super Critical thermal Power Plant Project organizes a Medical Camp

2x700 MW Rajpura Super Critical thermal Power Plant Project of PT&D IC organized a free Medical Camp in asso-ciation with Gian Sagar Med-

Also, the site organized a four day free health check-up camp for the workmen & staff on 13th, 14th, 20th& 21st July at site. Various tests including blood group screening, eye test, hearing test, respiratory system & chest measurement, screen-ing of the cardiovascular system, abdomen tender-ness, nervous system, lo-comotors, skin condition, hernias, hydrocele etc were conducted during this pro-gramme. Over 660 people benefitted from this camp.

ical College and Hospital, Ba-nur, Punjab on 18th August.

Eye, ENT and Skin exami-nation along with ECG, Blood Pressure and Blood sugar/

HB screening were conduct-ed during this camp. 184 peo-ple from the nearby villages benefitted from this camp.

147 workmen at SAIL-ISP Burnpur benefit from a health camp

RMZ Galleria Project, Bengaluru has organised a Free Eye Check Camp in association with Vasan Eye Care Hospital on 28th Au-gust.The Project Manager Mr. Nataraj K flagged off this camp and over 120 people in-cluding staff, representatives from the Client RMZ, drivers and operators were benefited from this initiative.

dengue awareness campaign at dhamra project

On 8th September, Dham-ra Project- 2nd Wagon Tip-pler Package in association with National Vector Borne Disease Control Cell (Govt of Odisha) conducted a Dengue

Fever awareness campaign at site.

Cdr. A.K.Kar , Vice Presi-dent, DPCL inaugurated the programme and Dr. S. K. Pal-lai, DMO – Bhadrak District

DB Power CHP Project, Raigarh Organizes Free Health Check-up Camp

The staff at SAIL – RSP Site, PT&D IC distributed the chicken pox vaccine to the en-tire workmen community free of cost on 9th July. This step

was taken by the site team as a preventive measure against the spread of the disease. Over 750 workmen and staff ben-efitted from this programme.

SAIL RSP site organizes health programmes for the workmen

(Govt of Odisha) addressed the workmen about the causes, symptoms and pre-ventive measures of dengue fever & other vector borne diseases. More than 450 par-ticipants attended the meet-ing including the client and other agencies. Awareness pamphlets were distributed among the participants.

DBPL CHP Project site at Raigarh organized a Free Health Check-up camp on 5th August as a part of its health welfare initiatives. Mr. D.V. Rao, Chief Project Manager, Mr. S. Karthikeyan, Project Manager and Mr. R. Umashankar, EHS Manager led this initiative. The entire project team including staff and workmen participated in the camp. 250 workmen and 25 staff were screened during the camp.

HealtH campsMEDICAL CAMP

SAIL-ISP Burnpur Project site organized a health camp on 21st September. Over 147 workmen were screened for general fitness and routine physical examination during this programme.

Free eye screening programme at RmZ Galleria project, bengaluru

6Atmosphere project site reaches out to homeless people

On 25th August the staff at Atmosphere Project site, Kolkata reached out to the inmates of Mother’s Nest So-ciety, a home for orphans/destitute children & widows.

The Project Manager- Mr.Sudip Mukherjee along with the Project Accountant-

bhushan steel team supports a government school in angul

IE-BSL team reached out to the children of Centenary Trib-al High School at Paranga, An-gul, Odisha on the eve of In-dependence Day. The Project Manager, Mr. A.K.Mohanty & Account & Administration In charge, Mr. Ajay Lohani along with the team distribut-

ed school bags to 700 children and also provided 14 ceiling fans for the class rooms. In ad-dition to the above, the team has planned to set up a Wa-ter facility through deep bore well, a separate toilet for girls & boys and a cycle stand with shed for this school.

Beawer-Pali-Pindwara Road project conducts medical check-up camp and reaches out to school children

Beawer-Pali-Pindwara Road project team organ-ized a free medical check-up camp on July 20, 2012 at Jadan Camp-2 in associa-tion with Sri Swami Madha-vananda Austria Hospital, Jadan, Pali (RAJ). The camp was inaugurated by IE team leader of Sheladia Associ-ates Inc Mr. Douglas LW

Campbell in the presence of Col Sashidharan - Chief Pro-ject Co-ordinator, Mr.K. Ch-innaswamy - Project Man-ager and Mr Neeraj Kumar Barua - Project Manager of IDPL. A total of 160 staff and workmen were exam-ined by the team of doctors from Austria Hospital.

In another CSR initiative,

ITC Sonar II Project supports Municipal Corporation Primary School at Dhapa

education

Mr.Prasenjit Mukhopad-hyay, IR-in-Charge Mr.Sumit Mitra & Executive Accounts Mr.Biswajit Muhuri distrib-uted school bags, blankets, bed sheets, water bottles and sweet packets to 25 children and needy people.

Kolkata based ITC Sonar II Project, as a part of their CSR initiatives reached out to the Municipal Corporation Primary School at Dhapa in Kolkata on 25th Sept 2012. The site team distributed wa-ter bottles, school bags, steel plates, glasses, pencil boxes and colour pencils to 147 un-derprivileged students.

the project team donated lunch plates to 600 students of Government Middle school in Morali village.

7Howrah TL site team supports three primary schools in the area

The staff at Howrah TL site (KKRO) distributed school kits and uniforms to the children of three primary schools in Bohariya, Fatik-gachi area in the vicinity of the on-going Howrah TL Project.

On 26th September, the

site team presented the items to the 37 children of Choto-BohariyaMahakaltala Pri-mary School, 33 children of BohariyaPanchkariHudati Primary School and 38 chil-dren of DakshinNaskarpur Primary School, all situated in Howrah.

CWSS to Vellore Package-1 project team extends support to Primary School

As part of its CSR initia-tives, CWSS to Vellore Pack-age – 1, Mettur Dam, project team provided educational aids to the economically weaker children studying in Panchayat Union Prima-ry School at Manganoor in Koonur on 4th July 2012.

Mr.R.K Subramani-Project Manager, Mr.A. Anbalagan-Executive Engineer, TWAD Board, Panchayat President, Village Administration Offic-er and School Head Mistress along with project team mem-bers distributed school bags, note books and stationery

education

KWTL team supports village schoolsThe staff at L&T KWTL

(Krishnagiri Walajahpet Tollway Limited) extended support to the children of the government rural schools in Kalanipakkam and Sigaranapalli village located on Chennai-Bangalore Highway, NH 46.

On Independence Day, the KWTL team distributed 250 school bags for those children whose parents are either the daily wage labour-ers or farmers. Lt.Col (Retd) R.Vijay Venketesh, Project Head L&T KWTL distrib-uted the bags and addressed

PARSA CHP project team reaches out to village school children

As a part of the organiza-tion’s CSR efforts, the staff at CHP Parsa Kente Project

MMH IC extended support to the neighbouring Middle School at Parsa village on 7th

Kua – pKG 5 project team extends support to primary school

As a part of Corporate So-cial Responsibility (CSR) ini-tiatives, L&T Construction’s KUA-PKG 5 project site, Himathnagar, extended sup-port to the students of Govt. Primary School, Vamoj, Gu-jarat on 14thAugust 2012. The site team donated edu-cational aids and accessories

to the children of the school. Around 32 children benefited from this initiative.

which included school bags, notebooks and accessories for reading, writing, and drawing.

Mr. T Ravi Patnaik (Chief Project Officer), Mr. S K Bade (In-charge - Admin & Accounts), Mr. Ronak Parikh (Project Manager), Mr. I MalaiMeghu (In-charge

– IR) along with staff mem-bers visited the school and distributed the educational aids and accessories. 55 stu-dents benefited from this programme. School teachers, Grampanchayat Sarpanch and villagers appreciated the project team for supporting the school.

the children on the impor-tance of education and role of children in nation build-

ing. Sweets were distributed to the children at the end of the program.

S.K.Das distributed school bags, note books and geom-etry boxes to over 150 chil-dren. Senior Officers from cli-ent M/S ADANI Mining Pvt Ltd, school teachers and the village Sarpanch were also invited for this programme.

September. The site team along with

the Project Manager Mr.

8Tata Steel projects, Jamshedpur, renovates school building

Tata Steel projects, Jam-shedpur, as part of its CSR initiatives renovated the school building of PATH - People for the Advancement of the Hand-icapped, an association of the parents of special children.

At a brief function held on June 29, 2012 in the organiza-tion’s premises, Mr. A.K. Sinha (Cluster Plant Manager) inau-gurated the renovated class-room along with Mr. S Mad-han Kumar (Manager Acct. & Admin) Mr. A.K.Poddar

400 kV Barh – Gorakh-pur transmission line project (BGTL) organized an aware-ness programme on the im-portance of education at Kak-wal Primary School on 29th September. The site team reached out to three primary schools under Kakwal vil-lage panchayat and counse-led the children on pursuing their education seriously for a better future. The Project Manager Mr. Debasis Ghosh & Mr. K KPatra, Project Ac-countant along with the site

(Cluster Manager- EHS) & Mr. B.D.Vishwakarma (Man-ager EHS Dept.) and other team members. Further, the L&T team fulfilled the oth-er requirements of the PATH which included yoga mats, various indoor and outdoor games, PA system, television and water purifier.

Around 35 children will be benefited through this initia-tive. For the project team it was an overwhelming experience and a great moment of joy.

Vicat Sagar Cement Project Site Provides Drinking Water Facility

As a part of Corporate So-cial Initiative, Vicat Sagar Ce-ment Project Site provided drinking water facility by providing a borewell to DAV High School located near the site. Mr. S. Ragothaman, Pro-ject Manager, Vicat Sagar Ce-ment dedicated the facility to the school on July 13, 2012. 500 students would be benefited by this initiative.

education

400 kV BGTL team creates awareness on education among three village primary schools

VKtl project team extends support to 100 village school children

As a part of the organi-zations CSR efforts, the staff at 765 KV D/C Varanasi – Kanpur TL Project distrib-uted school bags along with stationery kits to 100 stu-dents of Hanuman Prasad SatyanarayanPoddar Higher Secondary school situated at remote village Rambagh near Chunar (U.P.)

Children from the lo-cal region as well as from the economically backward tribal areas of North Eastern states like Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim & Nagaland study in this school.

The Project Manager Mr.Rakesh Kumar who wit-nessed the condition of the school children promised the school’s management that

the project team will further extend necessary help which will benefit all the students of school.

team donated School Bags, Pencil boxes, Registers & Pens to 200 students and Globes & abacus equipment

Many L&T-ites have given and are part of the proud Green Brigades.

Visit http://giveisha.org/LnT This campaign is open till 31st December 2012.

5345 Trees donated by L&T-ites… that is Rs 2.67 Lacs so far...

to the three schools. The Block Education officer and Village Pradhan also attend-ed this programme.

VIVEKANANDAN who donated 20 trees says “I am delighted

about this opportunity that I got on the day

of my daughter’s first birthday”

NILADRI says “Take care of the trees, they will take care of you”

SADASIVAM who donated

100 trees says “I am happy to donate this

money for our future”

“Plant a tree and

get air for free and trees are the

roots of all living” says SANNI by

donating 15 trees

VIKAS donated 102 trees for his little

angel DISHIKA!

NACHIAPPAN says “Let us join

together to create a greener world”

“The future is priceless so

donate trees” says SADASIVAM

SANDHYA who donated

50 trees says “ I am proud of my

contribution to Mother Nature”

“Green revolution is the

best solution to arrest pollution”

says NEERAJ

RAJAGOPAL, KAMALA, ARAVINDAN, AKHILESH, SUBBARAYALU &

SARADHA jointly donated 60 trees to help control pollution

Greenberg Quinlan Rosner

Research Inc (an L&T

associate) donated 500

trees during his visit to

India, appreciating the

beauty of nature!

SENTHIL RAJA

says “ Proud to be a

part of the Green Team

at L&T Construction”

“Very happy to

contribute to Project

GreenHands “ says

RUPAM

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The staff at PGCIL 765/400 kV Bhiwani Substa-tion project organised a plan-tation drive on 24th August at the substation area. Mr. Sanjay Sinha Chief Manager

200 saplings planted at Bhiwani Substation

1500 saplings planted and 280 government school children benefited at Wankaner

The staff at NC 34 Pro-ject - W&S SBG Ahmedabad Cluster participated in a mega tree plantation drive organised by Gayatri Shak-thi Peeth at Mahakali Hill on 15th August. Over 1500 sap-lings were planted during this programme on the hilly slope after filling the area with fertile soil.

tRee plantataion

GMR-CHP Project, MMH IC Hyderabad Cluster or-ganized a Tree plantation drive on 4th, September. This initiative was inaugu-rated by Mr. Kumar Vikram, VP & BMH-BU Head, along with Mr.V.P.Singh, GM & Head-Power Plants Seg-ment, Mr.Ajoy Bhattacha-rya, Hyderabad Cluster Head &Mr.S.K.Dey, Project Manager-GMR CHP Pro-

ject. The site team planted 175 saplings during this plantation drive and has further taken an initiative

175 saplings planted at GMR-CHP Project site

550 saplings find ground at dmRc site

On 25th September, 200 saplings were planted at the Casting Yard of DMRC pro-ject. Mr.Rohit Kumar Singh – Jr. Engineer, Mr. S SVer-ma- Casting incharge, Mr. Suresh- Chief EHS Manager, Mr. Vineeth R Varma- EHS Manager and Mr. L C Trip-athi-IR Manager participated in the tree plantation drive along with the workmen.

Over the last three months, the DMRC site has planted over 550 saplings across the Batching Plant & Delhi Gate site, ITO & Jama Masjid Site, Casting yard Mundka & Delhi gate.

(PGCIL) and Mr. Ramesh Singh Chauhan (Project Man-ager L&T) along with the staff and workmen planted over 200 saplings during this pro-gramme.

On the same day, the site team also distributed 280 school bags and stationery kits for the government sec-ondary school children at Wankaner.

The project manager and the construction man-ager presented the bags and sweets to the children. The site was also involved in con-structing a 23 meter bound-ary wall for this school.

This event commenced with a yagna and pooja or-ganised by the members of Gayatri Shakthi Peeth along with the lighting of the aus-picious lamp by the Project Manager Mr. S. Chandrae-aswaran. The site team par-ticipated enthusiastically by arranging all the facilities for this massive plantation drive.

to plant 2500 saplings in the year 2012-2013 of which 950 saplings have already been planted.

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GMR-CHP Project plants 60 saplings with a target of 2500 saplings in 2012-2013

GMR-CHP Project-Raipur, MMH IC Hy-derabad Cluster organized a tree plantation drive on 20th, September 2012. The initiative was inaugurated by Mr.S.Sarkar, JGM-BMH

sail-isp site, organizes sapling plantation programme

Subansiri site organizes a mass sapling plantation drive

SAIL-ISP, Burnpur, Site organised a sapling planta-tion programme on August 10, 2012. Mr. O.P. Tiwari, GM, Projects, SAIL-ISP, Mr. Amit Mukherjee, JGM, L&T, Mr. Mrinmoy Chakraborty, DGM, L&T,

Mr. V.N. Achutarama Gup-ta, Dy. Head, Fiance & Ac-counts, Mr. Amlan Kusum Datta, Cluster Accounts Manager, KCO, along with staff of SAIL-ISP& L&T, Burnpur planted 50 sap-lings.

BU, along with Mr. Jay-deep Goswami, CPM-BMH BU HYCO, Mr.Mukesh Kumar, Sr.Manager-HQ & Mr.S.K.Dey, Project Manag-er-GMR CHP Project. The site team planted 60 sap-

lings during this plantation drive and has further taken an initiative to plant 2500 saplings in the year 2012-2013 of which 1125 saplings have already been planted.

3425 saplings planted by Ahmedabad Cluster MMH IC during the plantation week

As part of the Go Green initiatives, the project sites in Ahmedabad Cluster of MMH IC observed a planta-tion week under the banner ‘Save the Planet – Plant a Tree’ between 13th and 18th August 2012.

3425 saplings (Mango, Guava, Jackfruit, Lemon Ja-mun, Gulmohar, Neem etc.) were planted by the client representatives, staff along with their families and work-men during this week.

A mass sapling planta-tion drive was organised by Subansiri site (3000 plants)

The following sites participated in this initiative:HINDALCO (MAP & PSS – Mahan) Project MPPGCL (CHP-Khandwa) ProjectINDIABULL (CHP-Amaravati) ProjectHZL – Dariba Project HINDALCO (CHP – Mahan) ProjectINDIABULL (CHP-Nashik) ProjectADANI POWER (CHP-Tiroda) Project

on July 26, 2012 at old dump-ing yard. The project team leaders emphasized to the

staff and workmen on the importance of environmen-tal protection. Thisinitiative

will help in preventing soil erosion and protect river Subansiri from pollution.

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(Star Trees)

Nakshatra VanamNakshatra Vanam

STAR BOTANICAL NAME NAME MALAYALAM TAMIL

Aswani Strychnos Nux-vomica Kanjiram Yetti

Bharani Phyllanthus Emblica Nelli Nelli

Karthikai Ficus Glomerata Athi Athi

Rohini Eugenia Jaambolana Njaval Perunaval

Mrigasira Acasia Catechu Karingali Karungali

Thiruvathirai Diospyros melanoxylon Kari Karai

Punarpoosam Bambusa Vulgais Mula Moongil

Poosam Ficus Religiosa Arayal Arasu

Aayilyam Calophyllum Indophyllum Punna Punnai

Makam Ficus Benghalensis Peral Alamaram

Pooram Butea monosperma Plasu Palasu

Uthiram Ficus Tinctoria Ithi Itti

Astham Spondias Pinnata Ambazham Marima, Nalini

Chithira Aegle Marmelos Koovalam Vilvam

Swathi Terminalia Arjuna Maruthu Maruthu

Visakham Feronia Elephantum Dadhipala Vilamaram

Anusham Mimusops Elengi Elanji Magizh

Kettai Aporusa lindleyana Vetti Vetti

Moolam Boswellia serrata Kunthirikkam Kunthurukkam

Pooradam Salix Tetraspeama Aattupala Aatrupalai

Uthiradam Artocarpus Heterophyllus Plavu Pila

Thiruvonam Calotropis Procera Erukku Vellerukku

Avittam Moringa oleifera Muringa Muringai

Sathayam Anthocephalus Cadambu Kadambu Katampu

Poorattathi Azadiracta Indica Aryaveppu Vembu

Uthruttathi Magnifera Indica Mavu Ma

Revathi Madhuca Longifolia Eluppa Iluppai

T.R.E.E.S. = REAT OU XISTING COSYSTEM ACREDLYT R E E S

Unnao Substation Project Team Initiates a Green Drive

L&T Construction’s Un-nao Substation project team initiated a green drive and planted 150 saplings at a Primary School in the near-by village of Kurmapur. The initiative was led by Project Manager Mr. R. C. Yadav with active support from the team comprising of Mr. Neeraj Srivastav, Mr. Prashant Tripathi, Mr. Ru-

In its continuous efforts towards conserving nature and to compensate its car-bon emissions, the Chen-nai Cluster of MMH IC has been taking numerous ini-tiatives towards upholding triple bottom line. On 26th September, NTPL site in Tu-ticorin organized a massive tree plantation drive inside the campus of Bharathiyar Centenary Memorial Wom-en’s Polytechnic College, Ettayapuram. 1500 saplings were planted with the active participation of students & staff of the Polytechnic Col-lege.

tree plantation drive at ie-Rsp project Rourkela

IE-RSP Project site, Rour-kela organized a plantation drive on 29th August 2012. Mr. D. Prasad (AGM – RSP) from Client end and Mr.

Debashis Roy (COH-L&T) joined the program. Mr. D. K. Singh-Project Manager along with other staff and workmen planted over 375 saplings.

pesh Kumar and Mr. Sanni Bhushan. The school chil-dren enthusiastically par-ticipated in the green drive and took an oath to protect the environment. An aware-ness video presentation on saving trees and water was screened during the event. Stationery items and sweets were distributed to the stu-dents.

1500 saplings planted by Chennai Cluster MMH IC as a Platinum Jubilee year initiative

Mr. S. Kumaresan – Pro-ject Director, NTPL Site in his address to the students explained the importance of preserving the nature.

tRee plantataion

Mr. P. Mathivanan – Clus-ter EHS Manager created awareness on Global Warm-ing and its harmful effects on mankind. During the occasion the students prom-ised to nurture the saplings and assured minimum 80% survival rate by taking good care of these saplings.

DID YOU KNOW? There is tree for every Star Sign!

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surabhi involves in eacH one teacH one programme

Over 80 children in the Government School at Jak-kur benefit from Prayas Surabhi’s ‘EACH ONE TEACH ONE’ programme.

Extending arms to those suffering from chronic renal failure

Activities at the Vocational Training Centre

Surabhi kick started the activity that was launched on International Womens’ Day 8th March 2012. The mem-bers decided to extend finan-cial assistance to those dialy-sis patients who come from poor financial backgrounds.

In association with Ran-gadore Memorial Hospital in Karnataka, Surabhi has

The ladies from Prayas Surabhi ladies club planted 100 saplings at the herbal garden maintained by them at an old age home. The lawn in this home has also been maintained well and the veg-etables grown are being do-nated to the canteen.

Other initiatives of Surabhi• An early Cancer de-

tection and Gynecological screening camp was organ-ized on 14th July for the staff and their family. 136 par-ticipants benefited from this programme.

• Clothes for new born babies were donated

In this bi-monthly project, volunteers from Surabhi teach basic English and Mathematics to the under-privileged children.

earmarked to donate every year towards this health pro-ject Rs.60,000 to this hospital to treat 100 dialysis patients. This amount, which is a part of special grant received from AMN’s personal con-tribution, was presented to Surabhi at the Platinum Jubi-lee Celebrations held on 5th September.

At the Skill Development Centre, 120 students of Class V to VIII are given training in basic computer education and basic English reading and conversation skills. 100 games & toys and 50 books are given to the children to play in one period every week. Also, 10 Teachers have been trained in Computer Science.

A bi-monthly course in basic computer science is conducted by Surabhi at its Vocational Training Centre. 60 students and home makers get trained in basic computer skills including internet. Mi-crosoft Certificates are given to the successful students which enable them find jobs in the retail sector. In order to

motivate the learners at the Vocational Training Centre, the office bearers of Prayas Trust Chennai visited VTC on 10th August.

At the Skill Development Centre, 120 students of Class V to VIII are given training

in basic computer education and basic English reading and conversation skills. 100 games & toys and 50 books are given to the children to play in one period every week. Also, 10 Teachers have been trained in Computer Science.

to a Government Maternity Home.100 sets of cloth were stitched by a women’s self-help group and 15 babies re-ceived 7 sets each.

• A lecture of general hygiene and health was or-ganized for the mothers and expectant mothers. 28 wom-

en benefited from this pro-gramme.

• The routine bi-monthly visit by the doctor to Dyavarahalli Village was made. Over 70 patients were treated and free medicines were given to the needy.

Green initiatives of surabhi

Clothes for new born babies donated by Surabhi

Donation to support renal failure patients

Surabhi members with AMN and others senior executives

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l&t contributes to World elders day celebration in chennai

On 1st October, Help Age India in their tradi-tional manner celebrated International Day of Older People. Nearly 800 inmates across over 22 centres of HelpAge units in and around Chennai arrived at Kuchalambal Kalyana Mandapam in Chetpet at 11 am. A brief event was followed by cultural and dance competition by the inmates. After a sumptuous meal the event culminated with fancy dress competi-tion and overall recogni-tion for winners of the Day.

L&T Construction sup-ported this event with a sponsorship for lunch [Rs 1 lac] while L&T In-fotech supported with Gifts for the First / Sec-ond / Third prizes. Mrs. Shobha Radharaman and Mrs. Ezhil Jayakumar from Prayas Trust Chennai participated in the event. Mr.V S Ramana, GM & Head Corporate Communica-tions addressed the gather-ing and presented the gifts to deserving elders. Stu-dent-volunteers spent their day helping and facilitating the elders in their move-ments. The event culminat-ed at 5.30 pm.

BLRO & Prayas provide water storage facility for Sandhya Kirana

The staff at BLRO along with the ladies of Prayas Trust, Bengaluru reached out to the senior citizens and dementia patients at Nightingales Medical Trust’s Sandhya Kirana, a day-care for the elderly people. The home was suf-fering from water scarcity due to lack of proper stor-

age facilities. The home had a storage facility of 1000 li-tres which was insufficient. The L&T team assessed the requirement and organ-ized for the procurement of SYNTEX PVC water tank of 5000 liter capacity and con-nected the same to the main Cauvery Water Line under-ground.

Caretakers of the home expressed their gratitude when the staff and Prayas members visited the home on 1st September. The 65 el-ders who visited the home every day, learning & mak-ing candles, paper bags, plates, jute mats, scrubbers etc. were happy to have ad-equate water supply.

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Free gynaecology camp organized at prayas medical centre

A free gynaecology camp was held on 18th August by Prayas Trust, Chennai at the Medical Center. Over 84 regular patients of Prayas Medical Centre and people from the neighborhood had registered for the camp.

Dr. Shantha from PMC, Dr. Niveditha,

Organizations supported by Prayas Trust ChennaiPrayas trust helps Lit-

tle Drops an organization which supports destitute, mentally disturbed women, sick and abandoned elderly persons by providing food, shelter and medical aid.The inmates are both male and female belonging to all age groups.

Prayas contributes Rs.10,000 per month to-wards grocery expenses since September, 2012. In addition, the members also donated grocery, clothes, linen, etc for the inmates. As their requirement is con-tinuous, readers are wel-come to contribute gener-

Prayas Trust is proud to share that Dr Sumana Premkumar, a Specialist in Radiotherapy, has been awarded the Best Doctor Award by Dr. M. G. R. Medical University on August 5, 2012 for her dedicated and untiring service to society. Doctor Sumana has been with Prayas for over two years now visiting PMC every Tuesday.

Dr. Premalatha and Dr. Kavitha from Apollo Hos-pitals were the consultants for this camp. Dr. Niv-editha briefed the patients about malignant and be-nign tumors of the breast, cervix and early detection leading to timely treat-ment. Blood samples of

ously to Prayas who in turn shall forward the same to Little Drops.

Prayas presented Rs.15000/- cash to a young girl in Balamandir (an or-phanage supported by Prayas) who got married on August 22, 2012. Some of the members gifted sarees for the new bride.

The members visited Vishranti Home for the aged and destitute at Pala-vakkam, ECR on Septem-ber 10, 2012. Vishranti was founded in 1977 by Mrs. Savitri Vaithi who dedi-cated her life for the cause of the poor and needy with

the patients were taken to check th eir hemoglobin levels and random blood sugar levels and in this 26 women were found to be diabetic.

Pap smear test was done for 39 patients and reports revealed no cervical ma-lignancy. Over 20 patients

were advised other tests – like Ultra sonogram of the abdomen and pelvis to determine the presence of uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts etc., Thyroid, Prol-actin Level, urine routine and culture sensitivity test, tests for Follicle Stimulat-ing Hormone (FSH) and

Luteinizing Hormone(LH) levels and Mammogram.

The contact details of the patients were record-ed during registration to facilitate follow ups at a later date and to counsel/advise them to continue medication as and when re-quired.

support from Help Age In-dia and the renowned Geri-atrician Dr. V S Natarajan. Today it hosts 192 women, managed by 32 dedicated staff including a physi-otherapist and nurses.

Thirteen Prayas mem-bers visited the home and engaged the inmates all through the day.

Some of the inmates were talented singers and enthusiastically sang a few bhajans while the others were busy by making door-mats using used cotton sa-rees, which are later sold at nominal prices. A couple of them were retired teachers too.

Prayas sponsored the days’ meal with a spot col-lection from members visit-ing on that day (Rs.6,000) and participated in actually serving them.

Readers are requested to enrol as Prayas Members by paying an annual membership of only Rs.1000/- (an equal amount is added to the kitty by L&T management). This will enable Prayas to organise more CSR pro-grammes for the under privileged

8992 patients seen in Prayas Medical Centre during July - Sept. 2012

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Two Day Exhibition and Sale of Products made by Specially Abled Artisans at Chennai

As the second time in suc-cession, the two day unique handicrafts exhibition and sale was organized by L&T in association with ARUNIM (Association for Rehabilita-tion under National Trust Initiative of Marketing) on 9th and 10th August 2012 at the Convention Centre. The two day mela featured products for sale from states across India and these items have been made by specially abled people.

Making a Difference in the lives of Differently AbledMrs. Meena Subrahman-

yan – President Prayas Trust along with Mr. N. Dharmara-jan – Secretary - ECC Recrea-tion Club, Mr. Premachan-dran – L&T Infotech, Mr. M.S Shankar – Arunim and Mr. G.Pichai& Mr. V.S. Ra-mana -CSR Leads for L&T Construction inaugurated the display.

Truly inspiring lives and successful in their own ways, the specially abled artisans touched all hearts at the two

day mela of unique handi-crafts.

The team made a sale of Rs 1.58 lakhs in the two day mela.

The event was so special that the L&T team went to smaller details of the visitor’s movement into the campus on wheelchairs and ensured the creation of ramp at key places. The team of blue boys and the catering staff went beyond their brief to see that the specially abled people

for any program we are gen-erally tense, the inmates are often looked upon with a lot of compassion, for once they were treated with dignity and respect, it gave them an opportunity to realize their self-worth. Once again we are very grateful to your or-ganization for the opportu-nity that you have provided in making a difference in the lives of the differently-abled ones”- Sumita - Little Drops

had no setback or strain at the L&T campus.

A few lines of apprecia-tion from the participants were indeed most satisfy-ing and rightly depicted the mindset of L&Teers.

“Thank you very much for all the efforts you and your team mates have taken to make us feel like V I P’s. Sur-prisingly we were so much at ease and did not feel out of place in any way. Normally when we take these women

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Workmen from TCS Kochi project & Hyper Mart site Alappuzha receive Onam kits from CM

our community development initiatives in this platinum Jubilee year

The Kerala Cabinet on Wednesday decided to pro-vide Onam festival kits, con-taining vegetables and provi-sions for a feast, to all migrant labourers in the State free of charge as a good will ges-ture. 350 workmen from the

Iftar celebrated at L&T Qatar and LLC Oman to promote comradeship among workmen

L&T Qatar Area Office conducted an Iftar get-to-gether of staff and workmen during the holy month of Ramadan. On 17th August, the Project Managers, Ac-countants, Admin, AO Sen-ior Staff & HR along with the workmen at the various sites of RLQP, Kahramaa Phase X S/s & Cable, DSTP, GSVC etc. met in the evening

The year 2012-2013 is be-ing celebrated as the Plati-num Jubilee Year at L&T.

With our Chairman kicking off the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations at many events across L&T locations, apart from our Pledge to take L&T to greater heights in the fu-ture, initiatives are being outlined to increase L&T’s efforts in the area of Com-munity Development.

Over the recent years, our Construction Sites, Clusters, Regions, Units across loca-tions in India / Overseas have been very actively en-gaging in many CSR Initia-tives.

Many a Teams ably led by the EHS members and CSR Core Committee members, have chipped in their might to translate L&T’s Societal Commitment into actions … going beyond, not diluting work-priorities.

The CSR Team at Powai, subsequent to directives

to break their fast together as one large Islamic family.

At L&T (Oman) LLC, around 150 employees from Muscat and Salalah attended the Iftar with their families and broke their fast. The If-

Also, the Labour Depart-ment distributed these cou-pons to the migrant work-men of Hyper Mart Site (Reliance) at Alappuzha. The Project Manager along with other senior staff presented the coupons to 67 workmen

TCS Kochi project received the kits from the CM Shri. Oommen Chandy and other Ministers at an event that was organized by the Kerala Government along with the Labour Department on 25th August.

on 28th August.This gift was an expres-

sion of love and good senti-ments of Malayalees towards the migrant workers and an assurance that they are part of the populace of the State.

from AMN, has identified these following as focus ar-eas for L&T’s Community

1) Blood Donation Drive : A Target has been set to achieve 15,000 units of blood

2) Tree Plantation Drive: 1,50,000 of saplings to be plant-ed by employees across various locations.

All L&T Construction sites and office establishments are requested to follow the sug-gested banner designs for all blood camps and Tree plantation intiatives. Project name may be added in the space available at the base of the banner.

3) Upgrading Drink-ing water and Hygiene fa-cilities in Schools – Special Focus and thrust to needy schools in the areas of our project vicinity. For special plans, when suitably identi-fied for execution with firm time-plans, sanctions can be obtained.

4) Prayas Trust & Ladies Club -Presently, there are 33 Ladies Clubs across L&T having strength of around 3100 members (spouses of employees & women employees). It is de-sired to achieve 5000 overall members during the year 2012-13. Prayas Team will carry out suitable drive: and we should extend our best support towards the same.

5) Computer training programme for community youth – Powai team has al-ready been identified in some locations at Mumbai, Hazira, Vadodara, Ahmed-nagar, Vizag, Kansbahal & Kancheepuram

6) Employee engage-ment and Participation in NEEV – Programmes with employee-participation that help physically Challenged, Specially-abled, support to Self Help Groups to show-case and purchase products created by these community can be encouraged.

Let us remain sensitive to the needs of the Society and our Community within which we operate our busi-ness, accelerate our initia-tives in these identified are-as, effectively plan & execute these programmes, and re-port on all these events.

Across L&T Construc-tion, we shall duly collate information, publish and ex-change information on vari-ous activities through the E-zine. Through this, our sharing and learnings will help us.

Together, let us excel the Community Development Goals set in this Platinum Year.

Development Initiatives in this Platinum Jubilee year:

Initiatives Apr.-June 2012

Jul –Sept. 2012

CumulativeBeneficiaries

Blood Donation 1266 1439 2705

Health 12685 10779 23464

Education 8484 3448 11932

Tree Plantation 6850 16612 23462

L&Teering 120 225 345

tar party was held at Al Falaj Hotel, Muscat and Hamdan Hotel, Salalah.

The observance of Iftar (a religious ceremony dur-ing Ramadan often done as a community, with people gathering to break their fast together) proved equality and promoted friendly re-lationship between the staff and workmen of the L&T family.

Beneficiaries of CSR Programmes

MEDICAL CAMP