Achievements

• SAIL was featured in the 2008 list of Forbes Global 2000 companies at position 647.

• National Institute of Personnel Management conferred the National Award on SAIL for Best HR Practices 2008.

• SAIL was adjudged as the top Indian company under the Iron and Steel Sector for the Dun & Bradstreet – Rolta Corporate Awards 2008.

Towards the Community

The CSR activities of SAIL revolve around-• Promoting concepts of national integration in

its broadest sense.• Providing know how and assistance.• Encouraging talent and growth among

members of the communities.• Carrying out programmes for peripheral

development and supporting educational, charitable and welfare institutions.

SAIL does this by….

- Providing community services- Developing and assisting domestic institutions- Ensuring that the Company as a whole and its

employees act on the ideals of social justice without discrimination.

- Assistance towards the establishment of cooperative institutions.

- Providing healthcare by way of regular health camps and health centers among other initiatives, within and outside steel townships.

SAIL’s CSR Goals

EducationTaking education to the masses-• SAIL has been contributing to increasing the literacy rates in the

areas of its operations.• Education to its employees and communities to strategically

address the issues of the developing countries i.e limited resources, inequity and inefficiency.

• Efforts have been aligned along the National Education Policy 1986- targets meeting gaps in public provisioning for literacy

improvement, particularly in the educationally backward states.

Reducing Inequity

• SAIL communities offered quality education at subsidized fees- up to 50% lower than the fees structure of other private institutions in the same area.

• Primary education in Hindi and vernacular medium schools provided complimentary in several SAIL schools-90% survival rate in primary schools, 95% in secondary schools.

• Education to children belonging to SC/ST communities and economically weaker sections made free- as plants and mines established in green fields and remote areas.

• A system of scholarships based on merit as well as merit- cum-means established

across all the plants and mines.

• 114 children belonging to SC/ST community adopted by BSP. 4 girls student have been adopted by BSP for Nursing course.

• Special scholarship scheme to provide assistance to undergraduate

SC/ST engineering students in premier technical institutes of the country.

• 51 tribal students taught free of cost in company sponsored DAV

school at Chiria Mines, Jharkhand. • Most importantly, a majority of the schools are within 1-2 km of the

target population, thus making education easily accessible to the children.

• More than 130 schools in the steel townships and imparting education to more than 73,000children.

• Girl: Boy ratio of 1:1 for all levels of education.

• Improving efficiencyStrategies-- Provision of basic infrastructure including schools with airy

classrooms, drinking water and sanitation facilities, electricity, well-developed playgrounds, computers, etc.

- Availability of trained teachers and high grade learning equipments to increase retention of students.

- In keeping with global trends, Information Technology (IT) based education is also imparted at several schools. As a result, the students are computer-literate and can easily adapt to IT based higher learning as well as have access to IT jobs.

Tactics• Several primary, middle and higher secondary schools and colleges

for employees’ dependents and surrounding populations. Several thousand beneficiaries per year have been receiving quality education at these schools.

• SAIL schools ensure high level of literacy rates which are higher than national average in the steel townships as well as of those students coming from homes within 20 km of these townships.

In doing so, SAIL has not only made a significant contribution to national efforts to raise literacy levels but also to Millennium Development Goals of Achieving Universal Primary Education and Promoting Gender Equality and Empowering.

The survival rate to grade 5 has been 95.8% at all SAIL schools. This is significantly higher when compared to the national average of 60% in 1999-00.

• A Memorandum of Understanding between SAIL & Akashaya Patra Foundation(APF), a trust formed under the Indian Trust Act-1881.

• APF, under their programme “Akshaya Patra’, prepare food in a centralized kitchen facility, transport it to distant schools by a customised vehicle and provide free mid-day meals to over 8,14,440 children studying in various Govt.-aided and corporation- run schools in Bangalore.

• As part of the undertaking the Chhattisgarh State Govt. will be providing subsidy and food grain etc. for 5 years and Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) will provide 50% of the cost of the meal i.e. Rs. 3/- per meal.

• The programme started on 27th January 2009 and by 1st April 2009 it was

covering 25,000 children.

• Currently it is supplying midday meal to 123 Govt. schools, including both primary & upper primary, and covering more than 30,000 children enrolled in these schools.

• Promoting Computer LiteracySAIL has joined hands with various non-government organizations (NGOs) to

provide computer education to the students.

• Shiksha Protsahan Yojna of Bokaro Steel Plant-- 10 non-BSL students, selected on merit-cum-means basis get scholarship,

tuition fee waiver and book help from Class XI up to completion of their technical education.

- 10 topper students each, from JAC & CBSE streams are given referral books.

• SAIL has developed an Industrial Training Institute (ITI) at Gua mines in Jharkhand to respond to the need of a vocational training institute in Jharkhand.

• SAIL is working in tandem with Chattisgarh state Govt. for establishing a technical university at Bhilai, Chattisgarh.

Women’s Education• In line with the Govt.’s Mahila Samakhya program, SAIL schools have adopted several proactive

steps to ensure the enrolment and continuation of the girl child in its schools.

• SAIL Kanya Shiksha Niketan –- An institution dedicated to the cause of educating “the girl child”

- Started on 3rd July, 2007.

- DSP Mahila Samaj was chosen by Durgpur Steel Plant to run the school exclusively for the “girl child” belonging to the BPL families.

- It started with 60 students in Class-I and now there are 180 students studying in Class I to Class IV.

- Students provided with -o Books, uniforms, educational kits and all stationery items free of cost. o A hot nourishing meal daily. o Audio visual aids to make learning enjoyable. o Regular computer classes, yoga, sports and games classes for comprehensive and all round

development of the students.

Water Resources

SAIL plants have been progressively providing access to improved water sources to people residing in its peripheral areas.

1. Development of improved water sources-Minimum 20 litres of water per capita per day to

townships within a radius of 20 Km of each plant. - through construction of 4714 types of water sources (borewells with handpumps, overhead tanks, ponds, taps, tube wells, pipelines.)

2. Project ‘Jaldhara’

- In tribal villages of Visakhapatnam district. - Aim to provide drinking water to the hamlets of Dummaguda and Sarada

of Bonguda village.- Water provided from the natural springs of the Ranajilledu water falls in

Araku Valley.

Process-

- Water from the perennial natural springs (height of 60m from village) brought down to the village by taking advantage of the natural gradient (by the way of gravity).

o By constructing a cistern at the tapping point.o Laying a main pipeline (1.6 kms long) through mountain terrain to convey

the water from the cistern at the tapping point to the tiny hamlets which house a population of about 450 persons.

Uniqueness of Project Jaldhara- - No motor pumps used in the project.- Access to nearly 37 lakh people in the last 26

years.

3. Conservation of traditional structuresSAIL has endeavoured to conserve and reconstruct

traditional structures such as ghats. For instance, - Chhatisgarh villages have plenty of ponds but there

were no ghats/steps leading to the ponds.- Drowning incidents were a common feature of these

villages.- Accordingly, BSP constructed several ghats and

repaired existing broken ones as well. - This has resulted in enhanced availability of the

pond water for the villagers.

Women Empowerment

• SAIL: An equal opportunity employer- SAIL has employed both women and men of

caliber.- SAIL employs about 7000 women employees in

both technical and non-technical area which is around 6% of total employees.

• Complaint Committees- SAIL constituted Complaint Committees at its

units in 1998.- These committees are meant for redressal of

women employees for matters related to sexual harassment at the workplace.

• Mahila Samaj / Samitis:

- Mahila Samaj was formed on August 4, 1957 in Bhilai when the industrial complex was just coming up.

- After this, many more Mahila Samitis came up such as- o Deepika Mahila Samiti at RSPo Ispat Mahila Samaj at VISLo Mahila Karmodyoga Cooperative Industrial Society at

DSPo Bokaro Mahila Samiti at BSL and Bolanio Hilltop & Kiriburu-Meghahatuburu Mahila Samitis.

• “Vivek Bahini”

- A women group formed by Swami Vivekananda Vani Prachar Samity, in association with SAIL, having 11 unemployed women from the weaker section of the society.

- Has been running a plastic waste removal programme successfully since last couple of years.

- Assistance under Peripheral Development Scheme of DSP was for setting up a production unit of “Soap, Gunny Bag and Duster” for industrial use.

- Resulted not only in a cleaner and eco-friendly environment in the township but also in providing livelihood generation where the average income of each member is INR 1200/- pm.

- The group now has a bank account from where they can get loan in an emergency.

- The members are also covered by Group Mediclaim Policy for INR 25000/- per year for each member.

Employment Generation Scheme

• DVC Para (Bagan Para), Parulia, Durgapur, West Bengal has been adopted as one of the SAIL Model Steel Villages for comprehensive development in the areas of basic infrastructure, education, health & hygiene, social, cultural and employment generation etc under CSR of DSP.