Speaking on the development, Shyam S Bhartia and Hari S Bhartia, Co-Chairman and Managing Director said, “We are delighted to receive this award, Corporate Social Responsibility is an integral part of how we conduct our business. Our efforts are directed towards empowering communities, we believe that for sustainable social intervention, the people themselves would have to be the drivers. We focus on community development through intervention in primary education, basic healthcare service, and livelihood generation programmes targeted on improving the employability of women and local youth.”
The social initiatives of the company are carried out under the aegis of Jubilant Bhartia Foundation (JBF). The foundation follow 4P model (Public-Private-People-Partnership) and it covers 65 villages in India, educating over 13,500 children, providing basic healthcare to 350,000 people and training up to 2500 youth every year.
EP News Bureau – Mumbai