Escorts CSR practices and projects
Escorts believes in holistic and all-round prosperity. The Company has interwoven social consciousness into business responsibility. During 2012-14, our corporate social responsibility initiatives were focused around the following areas:
Escorts engaged with reputed hospitals and medical organisations to increase health awareness and provide free primary healthcare services.
Escorts organised general health check-up camps in Faridabad in collaboration with prominent hospitals covering more than 2,500 beneficiaries with primary healthcare services, doctor consultations and medical tests (blood sugar, blood pressure, pulse rate measurement and ECG).
Escorts addressed women’s empowerment issues through a community outreach initiative – Pahchaan, under which women were imparted life skills training. The Company conducted a special initiative for the women family members of Escorts employees, providing them with a platform for overall development. The following activities were undertaken: Life skills training; sanitation and hygiene awareness; recreational activities; health awareness and social issues.
Escorts is committed to national progress, reflected in environment initiatives around its manufacturing units. The Chief Minister of Haryana,
Mr. Bhupinder Singh Hooda, inaugurated the Go Green Faridabad campaign initiated by Escorts Group in collaboration with the Faridabad Industries Association. As a part of the campaign, Escorts employees planted 125 saplings on World Environment Day. Some of the other initiatives comprised:
- Escorts collaborated with Jaagruti, a Delhi-based charitable trust that collects scrap paper from organizations for onward recycling. The Company handed its first consignment of 375-kg in exchange for 350 recycled notebooks
- Escorts addressed women’s empowerment issues through a community outreach initiative – Pahchaan, under which women were imparted life skills training. The Company conducted a special initiative for the women family members of Escorts employees, providing them with a platform for overall development.
- At Unnati, a collaborative effort between Escorts and Navjyoti India Foundation, Escorts provides training to underprivileged children for onward employment at Company dealerships
- Escorts employees donated warm clothes to the Goonj Foundation, an NGO that focuses on providing clothing to the poor during harsh winters
- Escorts employees donated H21 lacs towards Uttarakhand flood relief
- An Escorts team volunteered with Arya Kanya Sadan, an orphanage home in Faridabad.
Escorts reached out to employee families through career counselling for their children (students of classes 10 and 12) leading to a prudent selection of streams, courses and colleges. The CSR team visited homes to spend quality time with employee families leading to a better engagement.
The families of employees were invited to visit our workplace. Through a series of contests, wards of employees were provided an opportunity to demonstrate their talent (singing, dancing etc.) and those selected were invited to perform in front of an audience of around 4,000 people on the occasion of the company’s New Year celebrations.