Community
Essar Energy's corporate social responsibility programme aims to enrich the communities located around its facilities, with a particular focus on enterpreneurship and education
Essar Energy has a strong focus on the enrichment of communities
around its operational sites by aiming to meet their developmental
needs and aspirations. The vision we have is to become a catalyst
of positive change in society, improving the social and economic
life of our neighbourhood communities and making a positive
contribution to the lives of all those who are directly or
indirectly impacted by our business, products and services.
Essar Energy's corporate social responsibility activities and
projects are managed through the Essar Foundation. The Foundation
focuses on education, health, entrepreneurship, infrastructure,
women empowerment, child welfare, environment and community
care.
The communities targeted by our activities are broadly
classified into -
- Participating families who have contributed their land to our
operational activities
- Communities living in the vicinity of our operational
sites
- Communities whose socio- economic well being is impacted by our
activities
Essar Energy is actively involved in providing and improving
infrastructure in the villages surrounding its facilities.
Initiatives include repairing roads, particularly during the rainy
season when roads erode, and the laying of water supply pipelines
and construction of associated sump and pump house facilities.
Below: English lessons at Vadinar sponsored by Essar
Oil
Below: Essar water tanker supplying villagers near to
the Vadinar refinery, Gujarat
Below: Reading Carnival at Essar Mahan Power Plant on
July 19-21, 2011
Essar Energy's power project at Mahan, in the Singrauli district
of Madhya Pradesh, runs a school for neighbouring communities with
the help of a local educational trust, Saraswati Shishu
Mandir. The school is located at Nagwa village. Children in
this rural area have generally had very little exposure to the
formal education system and the majority of the students are
first-generation learners. The event was aimed at creating a
festive mood to encourage students to read more. Creative mediums
such as storytelling, art and painting, music and paper craft, were
used to increase the children's interest in books.