Community Relations
To ensure transparent and accessible communication with local stakeholders, we have established dedicated, two-way communication channels at each operational site. These may include community liaison offices, designated contact persons, toll-free helplines, digital platforms, and regular community bulletin updates. These channels are tailored to the linguistic, cultural, and technological context of each community, enabling stakeholders to initiate dialogue, seek information, and provide feedback in a timely and respectful manner.
We recognise that meaningful stakeholder engagement requires empowering communities to participate effectively. Therefore, capacity-building initiatives will be integrated into the engagement strategy, particularly for vulnerable or marginalized groups. These initiatives may include awareness sessions, participatory workshops, training on rights and grievance mechanisms, and support for community representatives. The goal is to ensure that all stakeholders regardless of background, have the knowledge, confidence, and tools to engage constructively with our operations.
We have trained farmers in the areas of sustainable farming and non-farming practices, undertook various initiatives to assist low-income self-help groups including training women in vegetable and mushroom cultivation, setting up fish farms in community ponds and setting up two cattle health camps to vaccinate cattle in villages surrounding our plants.
We have partnered with the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development to carry out a watershed project through which we have built ponds, bunds and dams in villages surrounding our plants.
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We have set up digital classes across various schools in direct impact zone villages, established science labs in two government schools and awarded our “Udaan†scholarships to students across India.
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We have provided free health screenings to villagers in India through our mobile health camps in Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh, Salboni, West Bengal, Sundargarh and Jajpur, Odisha and our static clinic in Salboni, West Bengal. We have also organised antenatal health camps to increase awareness on maternal and child health and provided medical check-ups to women, carried out antimalarial fogging at various direct impact zone villages, provided healthcare lab services to villagers across a primary healthcare centre near our Nandyal plant and a community healthcare centre near the Shiva Cement Limited clinker unit and set up eye care camps in villages surrounding our plants to screen villagers. Further, we extended our support in providing nutritional food to tuberculosis patients. Further, we set up a 24 hours’ ambulance service in Salboni.
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We have installed solar based water supply structures and reverse osmosis water plants benefitting villagers in the villages surrounding our plants, solar street lights across direct impact zone villages, drains and roads in villages surrounding our plants and aided in submitting applications for welfare schemes catered to micro, small and medium enterprises, under the “Haqdarshak†project.
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We have constructed toilets at local temples, provided tractors to gram panchayats and waste bins to rural households to promote cleanliness and safe sanitation.
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