Thanks to L&T, a 200-Year-Old Tradition Is Finding New Roots!
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CSR Newsletter from L&T Construction Read the e-copy of all issues at http://www.lntecc.com/homepage/common/reachingout.htm Volume - 6, Issue - 3 July-December 2016 THANKS TO L&T, A 200-YEAR-OLD TRADITION IS FINDING NEW ROOTS! On 12th December, 2016, Cyclone Vardah tore into the city of Chennai with a vengeance buffeting it It was tough work with 200+ km strong winds and torrential rains. By the and we had to work very time the storm had abated, carefully the lid had been blown off - Rupam Kohli Manager - P&M the city’s green cover with roughly 3,000 – 4,000 trees uprooted. Amongst these was a banyan tree in Little Mount, Chennai that had stood the ravages of L&T was approached to lend 3 project. “We worked under time for more two centuries! a hand for this exercise and a lights well into the night and As the city authorities literally team from Heavy Civil IC lent finished erecting the tree by swung into action to clear their mite and machines to about 1.30 in the morning!” the fallen trees, surprisingly lift the hefty trunk into place. Rupam and team’s labors they found some life in this “It was tough work and we have borne green shoots as particular tree! Immediately, had to work very carefully,” the tree has started to flower environmentalists and tree says Rupam Kohli, Manager once again! Long live this lovers were called in to try – P&M, who is currently 200+ year old tradition! and rescue this tree. working on the CMRL – UG Greening 02 Education 06 Healthcare 08 Skilling 10 Blood Donation 12 2 Greening GIVING NEW LIFE TO KARASANGAL LAKE Name of Lake Area Length of Bund Type Administrative Boundaries Karasangal Lake 23 Acres 1.36kms Freshwater Lake Kancheepuram District Although blessed with three One case in point is area and its environs forcing Stages of restoration: rivers and 300+ lakes, water the suburban village of these water bodies to be Manual and voluntary clean up of the lake to remove has perennially remained Karasangal nestled outside restored on a war-footing. physical and non-degradable trash from the water body. a matter of grave concern the Tambaram, Kanchipuram L&T took the lead and along for Chennai. However, district on the Vandalur- with the Environmentalist Scientific mapping to understand the water and soil type paradoxical though it may Oragadam highway that is Foundation of India (EFI) sound, a lot of attention has home to a large lake, 4 ponds have been in the process of Mechanized desilting and deepening of the water body been trained on maintaining and a connecting stream to restoring the Karasangal lake across the lake bed area to increase water holding capacity the existing water bodies and the Adyar River. The floods of over the last 7 months. by 20%. 2 to 3ft silt was removed from across the contour based on measurements. The excavated silt was used to lay creating new ones. December 2015 ravaged the Voluntary Scientificbunds around the lake. restoration of the lake Bund strengthening efforts through packed layers of was undertaken with fresh bund and its maintenance permissions from the district administration. L&T Protective fencing of the bund area to prevent future accumulation of trash supported the initiative with machines, fuel, raw material Planting of native species and labor. Executed by EFI as a community based Inlet and outlet channels regulated to conservation project, it ensure free flow of water involved the local community Extended awareness campaigns throughout the project right through from the initial period in the neighborhood to sustain the efforts of stages to completion. maintaining the restored lake Greening 3 4,50,000 saplings and counting A healthy green contribution by Project Green Hands free as only organic manure and panchakavyam are used for With the collective efforts of all its patrons, the nursery growing them. has till date nurtured and planted over 450000 saplings across Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh In the past six months, more than 12000 saplings have been nurtured and transplanted and around 9325 saplings distributed Project Green Hands is a parks, institutions and some to various schools, universities, nurseries across Chennai and green initiative started by L&T sent to ISHA for redistribution several villages in Sriperumbudur and Kancheepuram districts. Construction with the help to other nurseries. Employees of ISHA Foundation originally are also encouraged to in the form of an in-house increase the green cover by ‘Nursery’ over a 500-sq-feet planting tree saplings in and area where tree saplings around their living areas. are nurtured, transplanted Two ‘bio-bins’ are used for and distributed to various composting vegetable waste locations for planting. collected from the various The nursery is nurtured by canteens. This is a continuous employees who find time process that involves collection during lunch breaks, evenings and segregation of wet and and/or over weekends. They Rebuilding the green cover of the campus dry vegetable wastes. At the also assist a full time gardener The Manapakkam campus was not spared the wrath of Cyclone Vardah and close to 100 bottom of the bio-bin is a for pocket filling, seedling, trees were broken or uprooted. Attempts are on to ‘rescue’ some of them. pipe through which the waste transplanting, pocket shifting, water is drained out leaving cleaning, etc. Different only the dry vegetables at species of tree saplings like the top of the bin. A thin fruit bearing, flower, shade layer of cow dung is spread trees and timber trees are over layers of vegetable peels grown in the nursery to meet that provides the necessary public demand. The pockets microbes for compost. After and seeds are provided by 40 days, the dry waste Isha Foundation free of cost becomes a fine powdered apart from their expertise as organic manure which is and when needed. then used for plants. On an With the help of the CSR average 30 kgs of manure team the grown saplings are gets produced through this transplanted in public places process. All plants nurtured like government schools, in the nursery are chemical 4 Greening L&T FINDS 45,000+ REASONS TO MAKE THE PLANET GREENER WET IC’s TVSW 120 MLD STP Plant Mega Lift Irrigation Cluster-VI project, SUCG JV, CC-27 project, Puri - Rewa Katni lakhnadon road project, project, Varanasi - 325 saplings Cuttack - 410 saplings 525 saplings Jabalpur - 1500 saplings water distribution project, Water Supply project, Dhanbad - Metro Tunnelling project, Delhi - Dahej Water Suppy project, Pudukkotai - 1000 saplings 200 saplings 525 saplings Bharuch - 1790 saplings Rampur Sewerage Works Zone- V, Sewerage Scheme Phase-1 project, Janoovi - 1030 saplings Moradabad - 1050 saplings 100 MLD CETP project, Drinking Water Supply project, Water Distribution project, Dindigul - 2500 saplings Narol - 750 saplings Khammam - 1900 saplings IWS- Bansujara project, Sauni Yojana - L4P3 project, Khargapur - 600 saplings 1200 saplings Sewerage Network project, Cluster Sewerage project, Waste Water project, Nellore - 560 saplings Allahabad - 100 saplings Bhiwadi - 400 saplings Greening 5 Drinking Water Supply project, Sewerage Work project, Mohanpura LIS project, Rajgarh - 500 saplings Bellampally - 530 saplings Pali - 980 saplings Mega Lift Irrigation cluster XI team, Mega Lift Irrigation project, Kamal Vihar Project, Raipur - 100 saplings Jajpur - 300 saplings Bargarh - 860 saplings MLIP Cluster-VI project, Waster Water project, PBEL CITY Project, Plant Water System project, Cuttack - 1000 saplings Nellore - 1450 saplings Hyderabad - 300 saplings Raichur - 650 saplings RDA Kamal Vihar project, RKJLR project, Jabalpur - RWSS - UDSK project, Nagana Sauni Yojna project, Raipur - 259 saplings 300 saplings Kalyanpur - 200 saplings Thane - 1500 saplings Water Supply Project, Adilabad - UFW - D2a & D2b project, Kamal Vihar Project, Raipur - 907 saplings 940 saplings Malur - 5000 saplings UGD project, Junagadh - WDFC CTP 1 & 2 project, WSS project, Udaipura - 500 saplings 1500 saplings 13000 saplings 6 EDUCATION Creating a platform for children to have a say! science, etc. This not only helps build and develop their confidence in communication and creative writing but also makes them think about their community. An editorial committee formed by the children drawn from the higher primary classes collect and decide the stories to be carried on the basis of merit and other Single Teacher Schools the children. The motive is to parameters. programme is making infuse a love for writing in the consistent progress in the children and thereby improve Children have been areas of nurturing academic their linguistic skills from a enthusiastically participating excellence and improving very young age. Trained for in this exercise and are, just soft skills among some 3125 this purpose, they came up as adults, overjoyed to see children. The programme L&T’s Single Teacher Schools aims to infuse quality into education through programme is getting stronger supplementary supports after by providing the foundation regular schooling hours. Now, for other CSR initiatives three years old, the results are very evident and encouraging. The Single Teacher Schools programme, The learning levels and performance of children in L&T Construction’s flagship CSR initiative, schools have gradually risen has already embraced 3,125+ students and as of today more than across 125 locations in the Tamil Nadu seventy percent of students districts of Kanchipuram and Tiruvallur. have scored above 80% in with a title for the newsletter their creations in print which Through