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The Rs 244-crore Saranda Action Plan in Jharkhand kicked off last week with some help from SAIL.
The largest miner in the area has built and handed over the Rs 5.4-crore integrated development centre (IDC) to the West Singbhum district administration for the reach-out programme, a SAIL official told Business Line .
As part of its corporate social responsibility project, SAIL has constructed 26 structures of 1,000 sq ft each on an area of 2 acres at a village near its Chiria mines complex.
The key infrastructure, the first of five planned for the ambitious project, would house a market complex, ration shop, bank, forest office, agricultural office, health centre (including anganwadi wing), community hall, community kitchen, common mess and civil officers residence.
CSR tie-in
SAIL, which runs three mining complexes — Chiria, Gua, and Kiriburu — in the Saranda area, has synchronised its CSR activity with the Saranda Action Plan, meant to wean away 7,000 odd tribal families from the ultra-Left fold.
Last year, SAIL extended support to the Government plan in the 99 sq km area, Asia’s largest teak forest dotted by 56 tribal villages. SAIL also distributed 7,000 radio sets (Rs 29 lakh), solar lanterns (Rs 147.87 lakh), and bicycles (Rs 204.85 lakh), among the villagers through the district administration.
The public sector steel maker, besides rendering free treatment to locals at its mine hospitals, has also put in place five mobile health service vans for 36 villages in the Saranda area.
Meanwhile, a Tata Steel spokesperson said it would also support the Central project with livelihood training programmes. Under the programme, 100 local girls would be trained by Tata Steel as health workers.
It has established a centre at Monoharpur in the Saranda area. Tata Steel too is taking up the programme as an extension of its CSR activity. On Wednesday, the first batch of 75 girls would begin the training, the company official said. Tata Steel’s Noamundi mines are located just outside the Saranda area.
jayanta.mallick@thehindu.co.in
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