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Water station at visarjan procession
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Tata Consulting Engineers | Pune
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30 volunteers provided water free of cost to the participants and the spectators at the Ganesh visarjan procession.
The activity prevented more than 250 plastic bottles from reaching the garbage bins. The activity benefitted
the people as well as the environment.
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Gift a meal
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Trent Hypermarket | Mumbai
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The employees of Star Bazaar, Mumbai (Shreeji and Hubtown Solaris Store) organized a meal distribution for
180 children at Ankur Ashram. The employees utilized this opportunity to interact and spend quality time with children.
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Beach cleaning drive
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Tata Consulting Engineers | Mumbai
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Tata Consulting Engineers organized a cleanliness drive on Juhu Beach in Mumbai. Post Ganapati visarjan,
the beach is sprawled with waste materials abandoned after the celebrations and the washed up fragments of
the immersed idols add to the sorry sight. 26 TCE employees and employee family gathered to clean the beach
and put in great efforts to unearth and respectfully dispose of the idol fragments.
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Traffic control during Ganesh visarjan
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Tata Technologies | Pune
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Tata Technologies volunteers joined Tata Motors’ volunteers during the Ganesh visarjan
day to help manage the traffic during the procession.
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Session on importance of teachers day
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Tata Metaliks | Kharagpur
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A session was organised on importance and relevance of teachers day in Gokulpur Vidhan Chandra Vidhya Bhawan
where 125 student participated and 6 employees spoke on the occasion and shared their experience.
The students too spoke about Dr. Radhakrishanan and presented a skit on the theme.
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Plantation drive
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Rallis India | Lote
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A group of volunteers from Rallis India, Lote Unit arranged a tree plantation drive in
Lote MIDC Industrial belt. They planted various types of trees like coconut, cashew, chikku,
raintree, gulmohar and neem with a purpose to increase the green belt area in the Industrial belt.
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Women's health awareness program
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The Tinplate Company of India | Jamshedpur
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A women’s health awareness program was organized at no.10 Basti. Basic health problems of ladies normally
overlooked in the day to day activities were discussed and suggested remedies how to handle them.
Prevention is the better than cure was the 'hallmark' of the training program. Staff of Tinplate C.D Centre
along with employees of TCIL voluntarily engaged in the program to make the participants understand all
the suggestions made by the Doctor.
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Plantation drive
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Tata Technologies | Pune
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Tata Technologies conducted a tree plantation drive where their volunteers planted 400 plants on the forest land near Pune city.
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Handwash awareness campaign
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Tata Power | Mundra
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The volunteers from Coastal Gujarat Power Limited (CGPL-Tata Power) in association with the school
authority organised "Handwash Awareness Campaign" in Nanikhakar primary school. The students were
given a lecture on importance of handwash and given live demo on importance of handwash in everyday life.
The school children also took the pledge to maintain this practice and inculcate the habit in their daily life.
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Visit to a camp school
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The Tinplate Company of India | Jamshedpur
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Volunteers visited a camp school which have 100 first generation learHi ners. They conducted various
activities including quiz, song, poetry recitation, etc. which saw enthusiastic participation from the children.
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Linen donation drive
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Gigner Hotels | Pantnagar
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T12 Volunteers from Ginger-Pantnagar visited a centre for physically disadvantaged to interact with the residents.
They also donated linen cloths to them.
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Road safety awareness
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Ginger Hotels | Mysore
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Volunteers from Team Ginger Mysore interacted with the Circle Inspector and Inspector at the traffic
police station Mysore to understand the traffic rules and regulations. Post this, the volunteers visited
many schools at Mysore and met with the school auto/van drivers. Volunteers educated the drivers about
the rules & regulations for taking more than the prescribed number of students.
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Drawing competition
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Rallis India | Lote
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A group of six volunteers from Rallis India Lote Unit visited Nutan Vidyalaya, Lote and conducted a drawing
and colouring competition for the students on the theme of clean environment. The students enjoyed the activity thoroughly.
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Road safety awareness
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Ginger Hotels | Vapi
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Ginger Vapi organized a traffic awareness campaign where the volunteers reached out to the common
public and explained about the importance of road safety. All the volunteers spent an hour each and
covered an area of 1000 Meters. 12 Volunteers participant in this campaign.
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Visit to a NGO
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Tata Motors | Pune
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Team of 80 volunteers from Tata Motors Pimpri - E-Block (press & Frame) factory visited the
Punaruthan Samarasata Gurukul in Chinchwadgaon. The team donated grocery and daily use items to the Gurukul.
A tree plantation drive was also carried out in the premises. More than 20 Saplings were planted in the surrounding area.
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Interaction with students
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Tata Steel | West Bokaro
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Absenteeism of students in the school is a very common issue. On the occasion of Tata Volunteering
Week RCMS union officials from Tata Steel had taken a session with the students of class 9th and
10th of St. Peter School, Ghatotand. They motivated students to be regular in the class and
enjoy studying as we enjoy sports.
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Road safety awareness
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Ginger Hotels | Ahmedabad
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Volunteers from Ginger Hotels Ahmedabad conducted a road safety awareness drive where they engaged
the passers-by and motorists on the importance of proper road behaviour.
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Nirmalya collection drive
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Tata Technologies | Pune
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Tata Technologies employees collected nirmalya, plastic and paper bags from the river bank and devotees
during the Ganesh visarjan procession to avoid it from going into the water bodies and disposed it properly.
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Drive to control alien weed
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Tata Chemicals | Mithapur
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The Mithapur coastal area plays host to two endangered fauna species - green sea turtles who have been nesting
there regularly and the Macqueen's Bustard which is a winter visitor. TCL employee volunteers, family members and
retired employees initiated a drive to check and remove the spread of an invasive alien weed (Prosopis juliflora)
which has been fouling with the habitats of the endangered species.
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Interaction with school children
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Tata Steel | Jamshedpur
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Pellet Plant department from Tata Steel visited a primary school to interact with the children
followed by birthday celebrations of the month.
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Operation Smile
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Tata Sons and TACO | Beijing
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Nanjing Tata AutoComp and Tata Sons Beijing office jointly participated in Operation Smile for
cleft lip and palate in Dushan, Guizhou Province. 4 Operation Smile volunteers participated for patient guidance,
medical records management, child life specialist assistant and patient escort work. Their working time was
over 12 hours everyday where they tried their best to help the patients.
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Visit to a school
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Tata Consulting Engineers | Bangalore
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Volunteers of Tata Consulting Engineers, Bangalore visited Asha School for Differently Abled Children.
The children were very excited and volunteers enjoyed spending quality time with them and shared snacks together.
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Session on health awareness
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Tata Steel | Tarapur
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Team from Tata Steel, Tarapur and TMRCT Thunga Hospital organized an health awareness session at M.K Jr. College.
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Visit to the big barn farm
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Tata Global Beverages | Bangalore
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The children were assured to have a fun-filled day where they explored their surroundings and interacted with
a lot of farm animals. At the farm, volunteers were partnered with a student. Their main goal was to be their
buddy for the entire day. Volunteers helped students to walk, eat and use the washroom. Many of these students
were nonverbal with low cognitive abilities so volunteers helped them to explain their surroundings and
assisted to do interaction with the environment. The farm encouraged children to pet the animals and plant saplings.
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Ganesh idol collection
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Tata Technologies | Pune
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Tata Technologies employees collected Ganesh idols during the Ganesh Visarjan procession to avoid
immersion into public water bodies.
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Beach cleaning drive
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Tata Motors | Mumbai
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After the Ganpati visarjan, the beaches were in a sorry state and needed immediate attention.
Tata Motors volunteers conducted a beach cleaning activity at Mahim beach and managed to pull out large amount
of plastic and other waste items which was then picked up by the municipal garbage truck for disposal.
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*This update covers only some of the activities undertaken by companies.
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