CSR

PROJECT
COPRORATE-SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY of ESSAR

SUBMITED TO: PROF. B. SADAVARTE

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 CSR PROJECT

CORPORATE-SOCIAL
Responsibility
of

Submitted To: Submitted

By:
Prof. Balaji Sadavarte. 1. Mayuresh
Patil.
Roll No- 98
2. Chaitanya
Chaudhary.
Roll No- 67

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 3. Chetan
Waghmare.
Roll No- 119.

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 “Diverse minds WORKING TOGETHER
to unleash the power of POSITIVE ACTION”

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to avail this opportunity to express my sincere thanks

to those who have helped us in making this project a success. Even a
most vivid collection of words admittedly, would not be able to express
my heartfelt thanks towards those who have assisted me in my
expedition of developing this project.

My thanks goes to Prof. Balaji Sadavarte who generously shared

his wisdom and expertise with us; both as a project coordinator and a
teacher, and rendered us sagacious guidance and intellectual
suggestions. We fell deeply indebted to Prof. Balaji Sadavarte whose
high degree of technical competence, profound knowledge of the subject
and in-depth experience in the similar field nurtured saliently our project
through its phases of development.

We would like to give our special thanks to Mr.Inbasekaran,

Manager of Essar whose support helped us to complete this project.

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 COMPANY OVERVIEW

Essar Steel is a global producer of steel with a footprint covering India,

Canada, USA, and Asia. It is a fully integrated flat carbon steel manufacturer--from
iron ore to ready-to-market products. Essar Steel has a current capacity of 9 million
tonnes per annum (MTPA). With its aggressive expansion plans in India as well as
Asia and the Americas, its capacity will go up to 20 to 25 MTPA. Its products find
wide acceptance in highly discerning consumer sectors, such as automotive, white
goods, construction, engineering and shipbuilding. It is India’s largest exporter of flat
steel products and aims to reach 25 MTPA capacity.

Essar Steel is India's largest exporter of flat products, selling almost one-third
of their production to the highly demanding US and European markets, and to the
growing markets of South East Asia and the Middle East. A number of major client
companies have approved their steel for their use, includes Caterpillar, Hyundai,
Swaraj Mazda, the Konkan Railway and Maruti Suzuki. Essar Steel has acquired
extensive quality
accreditations.

Essar steel complex

at Hazira, Gujarat, houses a
5.0 MTPA sponge iron
plant, the world's largest
gas-based HBI producer.
The plant provides raw
materials for their state-of-
the-art 4.6 MTPA hot rolled coil (HRC) plant, the first and largest of India's new
generation steel mills. The Company's downstream facilities include a 1.4 MTPA
Cold Rolling Complex, adds further muscle to their steel making facilities. This
enables Essar Steel to get into the genre of products that are tailor-made for
automotive, white goods, shipbuilding, agriculture and construction industries -
segments that were the exclusive domain of a few international manufacturers. (
Essar's Steel Plant at Hazira, India.)

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 ACTIVITIES BEYOND BUSINESS

The Essar Group is both a people-driven and people-centric organization. It

understands the value that people deliver in the making of a great company. The
Group’s spirited involvement in community service is inspired by these beliefs.

The Group’s ethos on social responsibility focuses on not just taking care of
its own employees but enabling and enriching the communities around the areas
where its plants are located. In addition, the Group has been at the forefront in
rendering aid and assistance by way of donations as well as relief supplies in times
of national calamities, such as the Tsunami, earthquakes and floods. Essar has
made significant contributions to the Prime Minister’s and Chief Ministers’ relief funds
in the past several years to alleviate suffering and help rehabilitation.

The underlying objectives of Essar’s activities is to motivate employees to

participate in and contribute to the activities initiated by the Community Relations
Centre, to create self-help groups for village women, to further overall development
of children and women, and to spread awareness about AIDS and de-addiction.

 Essar’s key focus CSR areas:

Essar has focused on seven areas where they have presence where employee
involvement can make a huge difference to the lives of that particular community

• Education

• Self-employment

• Training

• Infrastructure development

• Medical

• Health & hygiene

• Recreation and welfare

In every quarter, specific tasks have been lined up and are being conducted with
success, with the involvement of community leaders.

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  Essar ’s Major contributions :

 2000 Drought in Saurashtra.

During the trauma of the drought of 2000 in Saurashtra Gujarat the Essar Group
mainly helped in the following activities

 Rehabilitation of people by building schools, houses & other necessary

facilities and providing life in the form of water by drilling community bore-
wells.

 Essar Group had made available huge amount of drinking water per day
during May-June this year. The water was distributed to many villages in this
region using water tankers.

 2001 Earthquake, Bhuj.

The Gujarat Bhuj earthquake of 2001 was the most devastating earthquake in
India in recent history. Many people were reported dead and injured. Over 600,000
people were rendered homeless. Within few hours after the tragedy, Essar
employees came to the rescue of affected peoples.

 Essar employees set a life-saving mission by providing trucks, ambulances,

buses & necessary primary treatments.

 Employees help the people by providing medical facilities, necessary primary

first-aid, drugs and drinking water till the proper medical emergency arrives.

 Essar Group has supplied necessary material and assistance to G.S.E.B for
building a number of distribution stations, transformers in Bhuj after the
withering earthquake.

 2006 Flood Tapi River, Surat.

Heavy rain in the Gujarat cause flood with water. Among which Surat was the
most badly affected area. Essar steel located at Hazira being situated near from
surat was least affected by flood and provided immediate help to flood affected
people.

 Company has immediately supplied food, oil, sugar, milk powder, cereals, tea
powder and other necessary things in the affected areas.

 Company provides means to rescue the people who are trapped in rain water
and provided them temporary shelters to stay and necessary food. Employees
of the Essar Group has immediately help the people to remove mud from the
nearby villages & themselves help the people in providing necessary
requirements.

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  Company provided medical facilities, necessary medicines and drinking water
to the affected peoples.

 Provided necessary facilities for removing mud collected due to flood water.

 Essar Group had supplied material and necessary assistance to Electricity

Board to stabilise electricity by rebuilding and restructuring distribution
stations which are submerge under water during flood.

 Activities at Hazira, India.

The Group has supported and continues to support Hazira and surrounding
villages through the following activities

 The Essar Group’s Essar steel plant is situated in Hazira so they have
transformed Hazira and its neighbouring areas by planting thousands of trees
and laying water pipelines.

 Essar Group has started self-supporting schemes for women, schools, roads,
and playgrounds and out-reach programmes have established Essar as a
committed corporate citizen

 Infrastructure development programme :-

• Group has built a water pipeline to carry drinking water every day to the
villages near Hazira & also built overhead water storage tank in village as
well as participated in another activities as maintaining water pipelines &
community wells.

• Essar group is organising weekly recreational programmes for children of

nearby communities and provides subsidised education facilities at Nand
Vidya Niketan.

 Essar group is providing subsidised medical care & transport facility at the
Essar Hospital for the local population.

 The Group has started a 24-hour Essar Community Health Centre in village,
with doctors, paramedics and an ambulance. The centre also has a full-
fledged laboratory that is available round the clock.

 Group provided direct and indirect employment opportunities to semi-skilled

and unskilled population & also worked on the electrification of roads at
Hazira.

 Activities at Vadinar, India.

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 The Essar Group has successfully deepened two major ponds for rain water
harvesting and water tankers are sent periodically to villages to help them
deal with water shortage.

 Two school buildings at villages have been renovated and at the School
Mahotshav school bag kits were distributed to students from villages.

 Patients from the refinery’s surrounding villages benefited from an arogya

vahini (mobile clinic)

 Medical Assistance programmes:-

• The Group had organised free eye camp for the villagers.

• A skin treatment camp was organised and villagers were provided with
necessary medicines.

• Two medical camps were organised in villages where many people from
surrounding villages were treated.

 Fodder has been supplied to surrounding village gaushalas. Fodder Financial

Assistance is provided to villages near the refinery.

Thank You !!

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