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April - June 2016Volume - 6, Issue - 2

Health 05 Tree plantation 06Education 03 L&Teering 12Blood donation 10

L&T signs MoU wiTh

CoMMon serviCe

CenTers To inCrease

TraffiC To CsTis

In a strategic move to increase

the influx of rural youth

into the Construction Skills

Training Institutes, L&T has

signed a MoU with Common

Service Centers (CSC) which

are the front end delivery

points for the Department of

Electronics and Information

Technology under the Digital

India Programme.

The 1.5 lakh odd CSCs

set up thus far offer a

plethora of services like

banking, insurance, pension,

education services (digital

literacy, NDLM, financial

literacy), health services

(telemedicine, Jan Aushadhi),

railway ticketing, election

procedures, maintaining land

records, UID and passports

and electricity bill collection.

L&T LAUNCHES A SIGNIFICANT RURAL OUTREACH PROGRAMMEIT Minister presents a plaque for an agreement on skill development with L&T

In rural India, CSCs are

more than mere delivery

points; they are change

agents, promoting rural

entrepreneurship, building

rural capacities and

livelihoods. The CSCs are

operated and managed by

a village level entrepreneur

(VLE), who belongs to the

same village possessing basic

computing infrastructure

along with internet. These

VLEs play a crucial role and,

as part of the MoU, they will

play the lead role in screening

and deputing suitable

candidates from rural India

for enrolling in L&T’s 8 CSTIs

located across the country.

L&T’s CSTI team is currently

spending considerable time,

energy and financial resources

to travel to camps in remote

villages to screen suitable

candidates for CSTI and then

train them adequately.

This collaboration will enable

the VLE to assign a Unique

Number to the recommended

candidate of the same village,

who will then be tracked

and deputed to report. On

successful completion of

the training period or within

100 days, the concerned

VLE will receive an incentive

of Rs. 500 through a single-

window CSC account. This

initiative therefore has

enormous potential for L&T

as a significant rural reach

out programme.

At a function held in Patna

on the 23rd June 2016, the

IT Minister, Mr Ravi Shankar

Prasad, presented a plaque

for the Skill Development

Agreement made with L&T

which was received by Mr. V

S Ramana, GM & Head CST

and CSR. While addressing

a large gathering of 2000+

VLEs from Bihar, Mr Ravi

Shankar Prasad thanked

L&T for the collaboration

and urged the VLEs to join

the Nation Building initiative

by sending more rural

uneducated and unemployed

youth into the stream, to get

trained in the construction

sector. He appreciated

L&T for the initiative that

takes care of free training,

food, accommodation and

opportunity for employment.

Present during this

occasion, at which several

CSC programmes were

announced, were State IT

Ministers and representatives

from Central and State

Governments.

Later, Mr. Ramana presented

the CSTI film, shared

highlights of CSTI training

and the immense opportunity

available to the rural youth in

this ‘Skill India Initiative’. The

response was overwhelming

CSCs WILL COLLABORATE WITH L&T CSTI ON A PAN-INDIA BASIS AND THIS WILL SURELy BE A GOOD SHOT-IN-THE-ARM fOR OUR EffORTS.

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Reaching out remains the

abiding theme of the CSR arm

of L&T Construction and one

more expression of this in the

area of ‘Skill Development’

was when they joined hands

with Rehoboth (a shelter

involved in the vocational

rehabilitation of the mentally

and physically challenged) to

develop a sustainable model

of income generation for

destitute mentally / physically

challenged women.

Apart from constructing a

t ra in ing-cum-product ion

centre, the scope of the

project includes skill building

for the women, therapeutic

intervention and vocational

rehabilitation all under the

ambit of this single initiative.

ENABLING THE dIFFERENTLy ABLEd The project was conceived

to be sustainable and fetch

returns from social enterprise,

the profits from which could

be utilized to rehabilitate

the destitute women being

nursed at Rehoboth.

Although labelled ‘Mentally

and Physically Challenged’,

these women possess

extraordinary abilities and

strength. The project aims

to provide a platform for

these women to reveal their

potential, individually or

collectively as a team, and

thereby empower them to

be financially and socially

independent.

The inaugural batch of 30

women have successfully

completed training in making

Mrs. Sagaya Mary is one among the rehabilitated women

from the Home who has been training others on making

various hand-made products like jute bags, fabric bags,

flower bouquets, candles and envelopes by involving other

professional trainers. Once trained, these women folk start

making products on their own that are sold for a small profit.

The cycle continues with scheduled time line of activities

and marketing linkages. This training is also a therapeutic

intervention for the stressed women.

L&T is keenly associated with the project providing strategic

guidance, professional technical and marketing support.

Jute Bags, Candles, flower

Bouquets, Envelopes and

doing Tailoring. The products

made by the women are

marketed centrally by the

Rehoboth Trust and this

support is benefitting 120

mentally challenged women.

A great initiative, the project

that has been on for about six

months has already started

to make waves with orders

for their products coming in

both domestically and from

overseas. The returns are

shared among the women

involved in the making of

the products and a portion

contributed towards the

running of the home and

welfare of the inmates.

Stitching their way to SucceSS

Disability Does not Mean

inability

3EDUCATION

Key project interventions

•  academic support: Academic enrichment learning

for school going children post normal schooling hours

(5.00 PM to 8.00 PM) to improve their learning levels

•   Material support: Educational kits for children

comprising notebooks, stationery materials, books,

cursive writing books, etc.

•   Teachers Training & Pedagogy support: Monthly

teachers training for continued improvement of

teaching by educationalists & retired teachers

•   infra support: Providing solar lamps, mats, books,

black boards, first aid kits, charts, etc.

•   wash Programme: Hygiene & moral class sessions

•  recreational support: Play materials, children’s

newsletters, etc.

reaping the success

•   2125  children  have  scored  above  75 %  in  their  final 

school exams

•   Behavioral changes among children (hygienic and social) 

due to continuous moral and WASH programmes

•   Increased participation in extracurricular activities (both 

at school & at learning centers)

•   This model  inculcates a need  for education and  thirst 

for knowledge in children who otherwise may have got

engaged in household work

LEARNING

The Single Teacher Schools programme, L&T Construction’s flagship CSR initiative, was started in 2014 as an integrated approach to rural development aimed at improving the learning capability of children (primary and middle levels) through community learning centers. Today, as many as 3125 children in 125 hamlets in the districts of Kanchipuram and Tiruvallur in Tamil Nadu are enjoying the benefits of the programme.

expanding the scope towards holistic village development:

This programme actually prepares the ground to reach out into the areas of health, environment

and skill development. For 2016-17, an array of health interventions have been initiated to 

ensure that our reach is wider and deeper especially in these 125 villages.

Comprehensive eye Care

Through this development model, L&T intends to facilitate the process of integrated

village development by targeting prioritized issues (education, health & skill

Development) which will improve the overall wellbeing of the rural community

at large. Comprehensive and continuous evaluation processes are also in place to

achieve the objectives of the programme.

Kidney awareness & screening Camp

Livelihood CsTi

In association with Sankara

Netralaya through mobile

eye camps. Patients will

be screened for cataract,

refraction and other eye

allied defects. Spectacles

and cataract surgery will be

provided free of cost to the

beneficiaries.

In association with TANKER

foundation. Patients will be

screened for hypertension,

diabetics and other kidney

allied deficiencies.

Apart from health

interventions, CSTI awareness

camps are being conducted in

these villages to inform about

its existence and purpose.

Unemployed village youth

are being encouraged to

undergo training at CSTI and

get employed which leads to

better income generation.

In the first phase, 25 villages are being covered and the following programs are underway:

villages are

3125CHILdREN IN

125 thanks to the single teacher school initiative

4 EDUCATION

300 students have access to better school infrastructure

Transportation Infrastructure team reaches out to children through its ‘My playground, my world’ initiative

PT&D IC’s RGGVy Nadia

project team along with

the HR & Accounts team

extended support to a

primary school located in

the interior part of Chapra

block on 5th April 2016

where an awareness session

was conducted to sensitize

the students and teachers

As a part of an ongoing CSR

initiative, ‘My Playground

My World’, Transportation

Infrastructure IC team

has installed playground

equipment at Kanad Lower

Primary School near the

Kannur International Airport

project site in Kerala. This

initiative reached out to

the 120 students of this

government-aided school.

The parents and teachers of

the school raised funds and

complimented L&T’s gesture

of providing slides, swings,

see-saw, merry go rounds

and climbers and building a

about the importance of

safe drinking and the need

for clean washrooms. Team

L&T refurbished the school

washroom and constructed a

drinking water shed equipped

with a water tank and taps so

that 300 students can drink

safe water.

boundary wall along with a

gate to secure the equipment.

As a token of appreciation,

the school has permanently

displayed L&T’s logo on the

gate of the play area along

with a prominent signage.

The standard bearers of primary education in rural India are the

schools located across remote locales that strive hard to sow the seeds

of learning. Most of these learning centers are engaged in educating first generation learners and in spreading

the importance of education to the surrounding community. L&T, through

its vast network of project sites, has been playing a pivotal role in supporting

such institutions with a range of infrastructure and study essentials.

Here are footprints of the many small initiatives by project sites that have

resulted in big gains for the learners.

INFLUENCING

yOUNG MINdS

5HealtH Camp

L&T Construction in

association with Sankara

Netralaya and Single Teacher

Schools has initiated a Rural

Eye Care Project with the

objective to provide total eye

care solutions to villagers.

12 comprehensive camps

have been scheduled in the

series  through  2016-17. 

The first camp was held at

Maduramangalam Village,

near Sriperumbudur on 18th

June 2016. L&T has been

supporting this village for

more than two years through

an educational programme.

Now, health care has also

been integrated for the total

development of this village.

The camp was inaugurated

by Mr. V.S. Ramana, General

Manager- CST & CSR with

Mr. R.P Krishnamachari - Hon

Secretary, Single Teacher

Schools, Mr. Kannan, Project

Manager-Sankara Netralaya,

the local Panchayat President

and the Head Master of the

primary school. The villagers

thanked the organizers for

bringing advanced eye care

WET IC’s Bhatpara Sewerage Network & WWT project team

organized a free health screening camp on 23rd June 2016

in association with the Bhatpara Municipality Urban Primary

Health Center. 293 people participated in the health screening

which covered routine blood examinations, diabetes tests,

pressure tests, ECGs and prescription of necessary medicines

by the doctors. Special care was ensured for children and the

participants were educated on the precautions to be taken to

avoid communicable diseases.to their doorstep through

which many are benefitting.

Post registration, the

patients are screened by

the medical team of 10

specialists and technicians,

an ophthalmologist with

advanced equipment for

preliminary vison testing,

diagnostic examinations,

testing intraocular pressure

and tear duct functioning,

refractive errors and cataracts.

176 patients have benefitted 

from the camp by way of

L&T initiates a rural eye care project for villagers

counseling on eye care and

issue of optical aids. 66

patients were prescribed

spectacles while customized

spectacles based on eye

power will be provided free

of cost. 10 patients were

taken to the base hospital

at Chennai for free cataract

surgery by the Nethralaya

medical team. Post-surgery,

they would also be dropped

back at the village. The

cost of surgery and this

intervention is being met by

Sankara Nethralaya.

293 people benefit from a comprehensive medical camp

L&T through its reach out programmes has been focusing on improving access to quality health care for communities around its project sites that largely involve awareness building camps with free screening. Here’s a brief of the many such customized health camps that have benefitted innumerable people.

BUILdING A HEALTHy SOCIETy

6 Tree Plantation

World Environment Day (WED), run

under the United Nations Environment

Programme is observed every year on

June 5 to raise global awareness on

taking positive environmental action

to protect nature and planet Earth.

This year’s theme for WED – ‘Go Wild

for Life’ – encourages celebrating

all those species, animals or plants,

under threat and taking action to

help safeguard them for future

generations. The CSR arm of L&T

Construction organized events at the

HQ Campus on 6th June to observe

WED.

World Environment day Celebrations at HQ Campus - June 6, 2016

exhibition-cum-sale of

eco-friendly green Products

An exhibition-cum-sale of eco-

friendly and organic products was

organized that was inaugurated by

Mr. B Ramakrishnan, Head – finance

& Accounts in the presence of senior

executives and employees of L&T

and the Prayas Team. Around 20 stall

exhibitors show-cased their materials

to spread awareness about the eco-

friendly products.

Employees availed this opportunity

to educate themselves about the

making and use of organic products.

The stalls featured a range of

natural, recycled & upcycled products

including - stationery, jewellery,

yoga & fitness, skincare, homewares,

organic foodstuff, manure and

vegetables, kitchen / roof-top garden

equipment.

seed sowing event at

Project green hand nursery

Mr B. Ramakrishnan also initiated

the sowing of seeds ceremony to

accommodate ‘Lakshmi Taru’ tree

species in our Nursery. The event was

attended by delegates from APEX,

the corporate wing of Art of Living

that provides the seeds for sowing

and nurturing in our campus. Prayas

Trust members, IC CSR coordinators

and members from social team of

ECC Recreation Club took part in

this event and showed their passion

towards Greening.

ENLARGING THE GREEN COvERfrom spreading the good word about trees to creating additional green

cover by involving people partners for its green mission, L&T Construction’s green brigade is driving the need to create a cleaner and greener tomorrow through its ecological initiatives. Over 30,000 saplings have been nurtured and planted by L&T-ites in various public places like schools, colleges and

local townships in and around its project sites last year.

7Tree Plantation

Aligarh RGGVY project

PBEL CITY Project, Hyderabad East Block II at KC PERTO India Pvt. Ltd Jaipur

Hero Moto Corp Ltd, Jaipur

Gujarat Housing Board Project, Valsad

TOD Hitech city

J3 RIL Township Project, Jamnagar

Adani Corporate House, AhmedabadNRDA UGD project

TOD Musharambagh Project

TOD Hitech City

L&T Realty Project, Powai

Orient cement project, Chittapur

IIR Project, Jamnagar TOD Raidurgam , Hyderabad

DMRC (CS14 Contract) Radio System

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2x660 MW STPP, MOUDA PHASE-2

R-APDRP Ludhiana East

R-APDRP Project, Amritsar

BGCL Bihar

BMRCL UG II E&M project TLT & Rolling Mill Works Factory

RGGVY, Firozabad

HMRP power supply & SCADA package

R-APDRP, Jalandhar

R-APDRP, Lucknow R-APDRP, Aligarh

RGGVY Phase-II, Barabanki

RGGVY Phase-II, Project, Lakhimpur

R-APDRP Ludhiana West

LENd A HANd TO SAvE THE TREES

9Tree Plantation

RGGVY-II, Jaunpur, UPD (S&E) Segment

BAPL PKG-1, AndalAsh Pond with Water Recovery System-

BakreswarBhatpara Sewerage Network & WWT

ProjectTrans Varuna Sewerage Works, Varanasi

Dhanbad Water Supply Project

Garden Reach Water Supply Project

Kalyani Sewerage Network & WWT Project

Kharkai Barrage Construction Project

Sagardighi Plant Water System

Taranagar Jhunjhunu Sikar Khetri DWSP

Nagaur Lift WSP - TM01

RWSS UDSK PART-IIIMega lift irrigation project

52 MGD SWB WTP south 24 parganas

Hogenakkal Water Supply and Fluorosis Mitigation Project

2nd Stage UGD Works, Tumkur

PWS-YTPS, Raichur

UFW D2B Project, Bangalore

health BenefitS of DonatingBlooD5 The Joy of saving hUMan Lives

It is such a wonderful feeling being able to help doctors save human lives. There are no perfect substitutes for human blood. The blood you donate is divided into various components according to the needs of patients.

free heaLTh CheCK-UP

you can donate blood only if you are fit enough to do so. Before every blood donation process, a series of health check-ups are performed on the donor totally free of cost. This will be of great benefit to you.

reDUCes risK of hearT Disease

Regular blood donations help to keep the levels of iron in the body in check, especially in males. This has shown to reduce heart diseases.

BUrns CaLories

One time blood donation helps you shed 650 Kcal. This can aid you in your body weight control measures. However,

blood can be donated safely once in two or three months

and not more frequently.

reDUCes The risK of CanCer

High levels of iron have been implicated in cancer. Theoretically, donating blood frequently will reduce the risk of cancers. More research is going on to find strong evidence on this one.

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Mumbai City Surveillance Project – 40 units

765/400 kV GIS SS project team -19 units

UGD project Porbandar – 51 units

SSNNL – SBC, PS 4 & 5 project - 21 units

CSTI Cuttack -100 units

TJSK-DWS Package II 20 units

DAICEC project - 72 units

TPS Expansion Koradi – 30 units

BLOOD DONATION CAMPS10

L&T-ITES ENRICH LIvES IN MANy WAyS ANd vOLUNTARy BLOOd dONATION IS ONE AMONG THEM.

Barapulla bridge project- 38 units Integrated Sewerage Works, Pali -52 units ITC Sonar project II - 48 units NTPC Mouda - 32 units

Bijapur Homnabad Road Project – 22 units DEWA project - 37 units Kudgi transmission line - 39 units Piramal Agastya Business Park - 56 units

Bisalpur-Jaipur Water Supply O&M team - 36 units

DMRC CC-28 project -27 units Lalitpur-Agra transmission line - 36 units Provident Sunworth Project - 50 units

Bombay Dyeing project - 86 units DMRC project - 82 units Mandovi River Cable Stay Bridge - 57 units R-APDRP team -41 units

Coke Oven KPO project -336 units EHV SS 765/400 kV GIS team - 15 units Medak-Sangareddy TDWSP - 30 units R-APDRP team at Ludhiana - 33 units

CSTI Attibele - 40 units Integrated Sewerage Works, Pali -52 units Mega Lift Irrigation project - 30 units RDA Kamal Vihar project - 46 units

CSTI Cuttack - 47 units ITC Sonar project II - 48 units MIAL team – 133 units Shedgum & Uthmaniyah transmission line project - 34 units

BLOOD DONATION CAMPS 11

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L&T Construction has been associated

with HelpAge India since 2014 through

the Helpline project - Comprehensive

Health Care for deprived and deserted

elderly in Chennai. The helpline

project which functions from Chennai

Commissioner’s Office has the

provision to rescue distressed elderly

from streets, and offer effective

rehabilitation, medical attention and

psycho social counseling. 6569 elderly

were benefitted till date through this

intervention.

Elder abuse has become one of the

most pressing issues faced by aged

people throughout the country. The

United Nations observes World Elder

Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) on

June 15 every year to create awareness

on the need of taking care of elders.

On 14th June 2016, on the eve of

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day,

HelpAge India launched ‘Save Our

Seniors’ (SOS) app at Rajiv Gandhi

Government General Hospital. Mr. S.N.

Seshasai, Additional Commissioner

of Police, Mr. S. Sivakumar, Head

- Geriatric Medicine and Mr. Isaac

Christian Moses, Dean of the hospital

along with the HelpAge and L&T

team participated in the event.

What can you do if you see a senior

citizen who has been abandoned? If

you download HelpAge India’s SOS

app on your Android smartphone, you

can click a button and get connected

to the organization’s helpline in any

State in the country.

The app has three components: the

button that connects to existing toll-

HelpAge India – L&T Helpline Project observes World Elderly Abuse Awareness day

free helplines (1253 Chennai BSNL,

1800 180 1253 from other networks)

for elders in distress, information for

senior citizens and a discount feature

at retail outlets for them. Information

on health, wills & legacies and rights

& entitlements are also available in the

app. There are certain features in the

app that can be even accessed offline

app can be downloaded

from the below link:

https://play.google.com/store/

apps/details?id=com.folder.

HelpAgeSOS&hl=en

from supporting old age homes and orphanages to enabling the needs of special children, from running marathons for a cause to many other reach out initiatives, L&Teering is a part of L&T’s way of life. Here’s one such humble effort.

TOUCHING More and More LIves

ONE PERSON CARING ABOUT

ANOTHER REPRESENTS

LIFE’S GREATEST

vALUE.

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