After TERI Award for HIV/AIDS initiatives this year, Tata Steel has now bagged CII-ITC Sustainability Award 2008 for its corporate social responsibility efforts.
Competing with many business organisations, the company bagged the award after a two-part assessment process involving a site visit followed by jury investigation.
Traffic movement came to a halt today when residents of Kandra and Gamharia in Seraikela-Kharsawan district blocked the road for over four hours, protesting against the rising pollution level because of sponge-iron units.
The protesters squatted on the road blocking it with their cycles and tractors and refused to budge till their demands were met.
Jamshedpur: With the state recording an increase in the number of malnourished children, the government has embarked on a project to set up malnutrition treatment centres (MTCs) in the districts on the lines of Rajasthan.
The first such centre will start functioning in Ghatshila from mid-December. Another will open in Jugsalai in a couple of months.
Jusco: New feather in cap
Jamshedpur: Jamshedpur Utilities and Services Company Limited (Jusco), a Tata Steel subsidiary that takes care of water supply and other civic amenities of the city, has bagged a Rs 152-crore, six-year-long water management contract for Mysore, the city of the famed Vrindavan Gardens.
