Month: June 2017

Hyundai Launches Save Water campaign

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Hyundai Motor India has launched Save Water campaign by promoting Dry wash on the occasion of World Environment Day.   The 45 day long campaign “Save Water” in association with Society for Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) started from June 5 and will go on till 19 July 2017 at 1,254 Hyundai Dealer workshops across India.   Hyundai being a caring and responsible corporate, promotes Dry Wash for cars with the aim of saving 120 liters of water per car. Post conclusion of the campaign, Hyundai will donate the same amount…

2nd meeting of NCSrC chaired by Shri Thaawarchand Gehlot

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Shri Thaawarchand Gehlot, Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment chaired the ‘Second Meeting of National Council of Senior Citizens (NCSrC)’ organized by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. Shri Vijay Sampla, Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, Smt. Latha Krishna Rao, secretary, M/o SJ&E and representatives of many ministries and participants from different parts of the country were present.   The National Council of Senior Citizens had its first meeting on 30th August, 2016.   The Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment is the Chairman and Minister…

Vodafone Foundation to educate five million children in Africa

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Vodafone Foundation has announced that its ongoing education programmes in sub-Saharan Africa will expand to benefit more than five million children who are marginalised and excluded from traditional education.  This announcement comes ahead of the World Refugee Day on June 20th.   Vodafone’s charitable arm is launching ‘Instant Schools For Africa’ across the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Lesotho, Mozambique and Tanzania to provide free access to quality online educational materials. Children, young people and educators will benefit from free and unlimited access to the Instant Schools for Africa online…

Swacchta Pakhwada concludes with a strong message to protect the environment

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Environment Minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan is inviting people to share any environment-friendly act with the Ministry on the website. This is to encourage people to undertake one small environment-friendly act every day.   Addressing a large gathering at the concluding function of the Ministry’s Swacchhta Pakhwada at the National Zoological Park in New Delhi, Dr. Harsh Vardhan said that the Ministry will publicise such environment-friendly acts with the people of the country. “35 senior officers of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change will work in the campaign together…

V.O. Chidambaranar Port Trust organizes ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas Sammelan’ in Tamil Nadu

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The Union Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways and Shipping, Shri Pon. Radhakrishnan has said that during the last three years, the centre has implemented various schemes like Ujwala, Jan Dhan Yojana and Skill Development for the benefit of the weaker sections of the society. These schemes have helped achieve the goal of inclusive growth. The Minister was speaking at the ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas Sammelan’ organized by V.O. Chidambaranar Port Trust at Esakki Mahal in Tenkasi in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. Shri Pon. Radhakrishnan said that the vision…

Ministry of Culture to implement ‘National Mission on Cultural Mapping of India’ from Mathura

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In memory of the birth centenary of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay, the Ministry of Culture, Government of India is launching the implementation of the ‘‘National Mission on Cultural Mapping of India’ at Goverdhan Block, Mathura District, Uttar Pradesh. Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay hailed from Mathura district in Uttar Pradesh.   A day long Block level mega talent hunt programme (Sanskritik Pratibha Khoj Samaroh) will be organized on 17th June, 2017 from 10 am to 5 pm at Radheshyam Sewa Sadan (in front of Gaudiya Math), Radha Kund Road, Gowardhan. The programme…

‘Bharti Foundation primarily works in the field of sanitation’

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Mamta Saikia, COO – Bharti Foundation  “Sanitation is one of our new programs, but Bharti mostly works in the field of education. 90% of our projects and resources are spent towards education program. We have our own 254 schools in the villages and these schools are completely free for the poor, unprivileged children. Not only fees, but even books, notebooks and stationeries are given to a kid to encourage them to attend school. We make sure that there is no barrier due to which a child, more specifically a girl…

‘For Oil companies, profit comes with social responsibilities’

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S Mukherjee, ED (HR&CSR) – IOCL “Indian Oil as we are all aware, we call ourselves ‘Energy of India’. We are the largest commercial enterprise in India, largest marketing network, largest pipeline set-up and we are a Fortune 500 company. Having said this, the CSR spend last year was around 2.17 crores. Whether it is the government initiatives in ensuring smoke-less villages, the PM’s Ujala Yojana which is looked at world over as a fine example of what a corporate can do in terms of social upliftment. But we are…

‘ALIMCO seeks participation from public and private corporates to address disability’

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Ajay Choudhary, DGM – Marketing ALIMCO “We are a public sector company under the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment and we are one of the leading implementing agencies for implementation of CSR activities for various private and public sector companies. We were incorporated in the year 1972 and are a Scheduled C Mini Ratna company, registered as a not for profit company. We have 6 factories – Kanpur, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Punjab, Jabalpur and a new one is coming up in Ujjain to cater to the pan India requirement. To…

NITI shortlists States for transformative change in Health and Education

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NITI Aayog has initiated SATH (Sustainable Action for Transforming Human Capital), a unique and novel initiative to catalyse transformational change in key Social Sectors. Under this, NITI Aayog and its knowledge partners will provide strategic, technical and implementation support to three states for each sector.   A Committee comprising of Shri Bibek Debroy, Member – NITI Aayog; Amitabh Kant, CEO – NITI Aayog; Advisers of NITI Aayog and representatives of Health and Education Ministry spent two days assessing and vetting presentations by 14 States for each of the two social…