By Our Correspondent
NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR: Jindal Steel and Power has won the Times Business Award for “Leading CSR and Pandemic Response”. The Award was delivered by Actor-Philanthropist Shri Sonu Sood in Bhubaneswar.
Mr Prashant Kumar Hota President& Group Head (CSR-Education & Sustainability, Head of Odisha Corporate Communications, Jindal Steel and Power received the award from Bollywood actor Sonu Sood.
Earlier in March this year, Jindal Steel & Power was honoured with CSR Excellence Award for its multidimensional initiatives in supporting the community and government to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in India. The prestigious award was presented by Hon’ble Governor of Maharashtra.
It may be noted here that, the JSP had started on-ground services to mitigate the pandemic induced drudgery of the poor and vulnerable right from the day of lockdown in March 2020.
JSPL Foundation had also launched ‘Mission Zero Hunger’ across three states (Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand) to provide food to the needy, especially truck drivers, stranded migrant labourers and people living in destitution. The Mission Zero Hunger spread its services to Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra. Under this programme, the Foundation served more than one million meals during the three waves COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
During the Second Wave of the pandemic, the company supplied more than 5000 tonnes of LMO across 13 States in the country by road and oxygen express of Indian Railways. It also provided two cryogenic tankers to Odisha Government for transportation of LMO within the state.
For facilitating health care services during the Pandemic, the company earmarked 600 Oxygen beds in its Fortis OP Jindal Hospital & Research Centre at Raigarh and Tamnar in Chhattisgarh & in the dedicated COVID Care Centre at Angul supported with ICUs, ventilators and other facilities.
Besides the Foundation also distributed lakhs of facemasks and thousands of litres of sanitizers amongst the community and the Front line COVID-19 warriors. The Foundation also protected the livelihood of the farmers and the SHG Women by multiple tie-up arrangements for buyback of their produces.
