BHEL is a committed Corporate Citizen fully alive to the need of building synergy between business and CSR as an integral part of its corporate strategy. In order to make better the lives of communities existing around us, BHEL is supporting innumerable social initiatives across the country by undertaking projects in the eight focus areas adopted by the company’s Board out of DPE’s probable list of activities under CSR. Following are some of the BHEL’s CSR success stories:

BHEL’s SUPPORT TO THE ENDEAVOUR TO PROTECT “GIRL CHILD”
BHEL joined hands with Nanhi Chhaan Foundation, an NGO, the cornerstone of whose activities is to harmonise nature through protection of the girl child and the environment. An initiative was taken by BHEL to support Nanhi Chhaan Foundation’s effort to reach out to all people irrespective of their caste, creed or religion to help restore balance/harmony of nature. Children representing various schools of Delhi/NCR including Assisi Convent School, BHEL Township, Noida participated in a function organized by the Foundation and Arsha Dharma Parishad at Mayur Vihar Phase-I, Delhi on Independence Day (15.08.2012), which was presided over by the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Delhi, Smt. Sheila Dikshit.

Shri B.P.Rao, CMD, BHEL, Shri R. Krishnan, Director (HR), BHEL and a host of other eminent personalities/dignitaries including Shri Harpal Singh, Chairman, Nanhi Chhaan Foundation; Shri N. Peethambarakurup, Hon’ble MP from Kerala; Shri T.K.A. Nair, Adviser to Hon’ble Prime Minister of India; Shri Malvinder Mohan Singh, Chairman, Religare & Fortis Healthcare; and Shri Rajendra Pawar, Chairman, NIIT Ltd. graced the occasion to lend their wholehearted support to the noble cause being pursued by the Foundation to protect the girl child and the environment. Shri B.P.Rao, CMD, BHEL, Shri R. Krishnan, Director (HR), BHEL and a host of other eminent personalities/dignitaries including Shri Harpal Singh, Chairman, Nanhi Chhaan Foundation; Shri N. Peethambarakurup, Hon’ble MP from Kerala; Shri T.K.A. Nair, Adviser to Hon’ble Prime Minister of India; Shri Malvinder Mohan Singh, Chairman, Religare & Fortis Healthcare; and Shri Rajendra Pawar, Chairman, NIIT Ltd. graced the occasion to lend their wholehearted support to the noble cause being pursued by the Foundation to protect the girl child and the environment. Hon’ble Chief Minister gifted saplings to the children representing various schools of Delhi/NCR including the Assisi Convent School, BHEL Township, Noida with a view to encourage them to plant trees to increase the green cover of the earth.

BHEL joined hands with the Nanhi Chhaan Foundation by organizing yet another campaign at its Bhopal plant on 25th August, 2012 to promote harmony between man and nature. People from all walks of life including girl children from Vikram School and other BHEL-run schools under BHEL Shiksha Mandal and the entire BHEL fraternity participated in the campaign. The campaign got a further boost on 26th August, 2012 when Shri M.K. Dube, Director (IS&P), graced the occasion to launch BHEL Bhopal’s annual programme titled ‘Samuhik Paudharopan Mahotsav - 2012’- a drive for mass tree plantation.

BHEL’s SUPPORT TOWARDS CANCER DETECTION & PALLIATIVE CARE OF CANCER PATIENTS

Many of us are unaware that cancer is accompanied by agonizing and excruciating pain, which subjects the patient to enormous discomfort and restlessness. In India, 80% of the cases are detected to be afflicted with cancer when they are already in the terminal stage and are experiencing unbearable pain. Global Cancer Concern India (GCCI), a registered NGO, is working in the area of promoting palliative care throughout the country for terminally ill cancer patients irrespective of their caste, creed or religion. BHEL is partnering GCCI in providing palliative care to terminally ill patients including cancer patients of Delhi/NCR region of extremely poor background and with inadequate means of subsistence. The organization has been conducting free cancer detection camps at different backward and remote locations/villages of Delhi/NCR region including Delhi, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Ghaziabad and Noida where people are diagnosed/checked for various illnesses including detection of cancer and are also provided with free medicines. The GCCI has two full-fledged medical centres at Delhi (Kishangarh) and Gurgaon. These centres are equipped to carry out treatment of cancer patients besides providing free OPD consultations and medicines to the poor and needy people.

BHEL’s SUPPORT TOWARDS ESTABLISHMENT OF KGITC, A GREEN FIELD SKILL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE

In the area of skill development under CSR, we are setting up an industrial training institute at Bolpur, Santiniketan (WB) by the name of Kabiguru Industrial Training Centre (KGITC). In this endeavour, BHEL, along with Coal India Ltd. (CIL) and DVC, are providing financial support to the institute on an equal sharing basis. BHEL, along with the other stakeholders, is represented on both the Governing Body (GB) and Executive Committee (EC) of the institute. The Phase-I of the Institute is ready. The first session of the institute which began with Fitter trade in August, 2010 comprising 42 students (including two girls) concluded in July, 2012. The institute achieved 100% employability for this first batch of Fitter trade. The students have been campus selected by Hyderabad based companies, including Indwell Constructions, Power Mech, etc. who are engaged in power projects construction businesses. Currently, the second session of the institute is in progress with all the four trades of phase-I under NCVT affiliation, viz. Fitter, Welder (Gas & Electric), Plumber and Dress Making. Shri Somnath Chatterjee, former Speaker of Lok Sabha and Chief Patron, KGITC visited the Institute premises on 29.08.2012. Shri Chatterjee presented letters of appointment to a few students of the first batch of successful Fitter trade apprentices (session August 2010 to July 2012), who were campus selected by M/s Indwell Constructions for placement at their project establishments.

BHEL’s SUPPORT TOWARDS HEMOPHILIC PATIENTS

BHEL has undertaken a CSR project titled ‘Heal a Soul’ that involves providing medical assistance to people including children suffering from Hemophilia. Hemophilia is a blood disorder (usually hereditary) where a person has a tendency to bleed severely from even the slightest injury as a result of failure of the blood to clot normally. The project is being implemented through BHEL, Transmission Business Group (TBG), New Delhi. In this initiative, BHEL is partnering a renowned NGO, Hemophilia Federation India (HFI) who are not only working for identification and treatment of Hemophilia but also spreading awareness about this disease amongst people and the medical fraternity as a whole. The initiative will focus mainly on patients coming from below-the-poverty line (BPL) families located in the vicinity of TBG projects/sites. On this occasion, an appeal was made to all employees and officials to work zealously towards spreading awareness about Hemophilia for identification and registration of new cases of the disease in order to enable them avail necessary medical assistance being provided by BHEL as part of this ‘Heal a Soul’ project. At a function held in Kolkata on 6th August, 2012, Shri Umesh Mathur, ED (TBG) formally launched the project. Shri Mathur distributed medical kits containing AHF (Anti-Hemophilic Factor) to the first batch of 10 patients/beneficiaries.

BHEL’s EFFORTS TOWARDS ERADICATION OF CORNEAL BLINDNESS

In line with BHEL’s tagline, “Powering Progress, Brightening Lives”, a campaign “Vision to All, BHEL’s Call” was launched across the corporation in order  to garner eye pledges from employees and their families to contribute to eradication of corneal blindness. All Units/ Regions/Divisions organized programs, rallies, presentations etc. to for spreading awareness on the occasion of National eye donation day. So far, 30,000 eye pledges have been received from BHEL employees with a target to achieve 50,000 pledges. Our CMD and Directors have pledged their eyes for this noble cause making BHEL, the first among CPSEs to have supported the initiative.