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Dalmia Cement donates oxygen concentrators to Sundargarh district administration

TBB BUREAU RAJGANGPUR, JUNE 12, 2021 In line with its efforts to support Odisha’s fight against Covid-19, the Rajgangpur Unit of Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Limited [DCBL] has donated eight Oxygen Concentrators to the Sundargarh District Administration for the benefit of the people affected with the novel coronavirus. DCBL Rajgangpur Deputy Executive Director Saroj Kumar Rout and Corporate Affairs Department’s Sanjib ...

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Rural women in Bhubaneswar take to kitchen gardening as alternative livelihood during lockdown

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JUNE 8, 2021 Converting the dreadful COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity, a handful of rural women from underprivileged communities in Bhubaneswar are raising vegetable gardens at home, with the support of SOS Children’s Villages of India (SOSCVI), a child care NGO, as a viable source of income during the lockdown that saw men, the primary breadwinners of ...

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Piramal Foundation to assist Aspirational Districts in home care support to Covid patients

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JUNE 08, 2021 NITI Aayog and Piramal Foundation today launched the ‘Surakshit Hum Surakshit Tum Abhiyaan’ campaign in 112 Aspirational Districts to assist the district administrations in providing home-care support to Covid-19 patients who are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms. This campaign is under the special initiative – the Aspirational Districts Collaborative – in which local ...

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RSP observes World Environment Day

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, JUNE 5, 2021 Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) joined the rest of the world in observing World Environment Day on Saturday. RSP CEO Dipak Chattaraj hoisted the Environment Flag at Shilpa Konark premises in presence of senior executives and employees of the company. The Environment pledge was administered to all present on the occasion. Environment badges were also ...

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JSPL Barbil observes World Environment Day

TBB BUREAU BARBIL, JUNE 5, 2021 Commemorating World Environment Day 2021 on the theme ‘Ecosystem Restoration’, Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) organised a massive plantation programme in the residential area and pellet plant premises at Barbil on Saturday. Adhering to COVID guidelines and maintaining physical distancing, more than 100 workers, employees and their family members of various age groups ...

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Vedanta rolls out Vedanta Cares Green Cover initiative to commemorate World Environment Day

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JUNE 4, 2021 Vedanta, one of the world’s leading Oil & Gas and Metals companies, will launch a mega green cover initiative to commemorate World Environment Day on Saturday. As part of the Vedanta Cares Green Cover initiative, which will be virtually inaugurated by Vedanta Chairman Anil Agarwal, the company’s employees and business partners will be able ...

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JSPL Foundation distributes fertilizer among needy farmers for Kharif crop

TBB BUREAU BARBIL, JUNE 4, 2021 JSPL Foundation, the social arm of Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL) has come forward to support the needy and struggling farming community in this global pandemic and distributed fertilizer among them for the Kharif paddy cultivation. About 60 marginal and Covid-hit farmers of nearby villages under Deojhar and Kandra gram panchayats of Keonjhar ...

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NABARD sanctions Rs.254 crore under RIDF for drinking water projects

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JUNE 2, 2021 National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), the apex regulatory body for overall regulation and licensing of regional rural banks and apex cooperative banks in India, has sanctioned Rs 254 crore to Odisha under Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) for setting up of two mega piped drinking water supply projects, official sources said. ...

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Art of Giving’s global outreach touches new height

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 31, 2021 There is a special joy in the ‘Art of Giving’ and Prof. Achyuta Samanta, the founder of KIIT & KISS, has made it to another global fame for his obsessive bend towards humanitarian causes. His ‘Art of Giving’ has won the second position in the 2021 MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship by Talloires Network ...

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SBI donates Covid Testing Van to BMC

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 31, 2021 The Bhubaneswar Circle of the State Bank of India (SBI) and SBI Foundation today donated a Covid Testing Van and medical equipment including masks, hand gloves and sanitizers to Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) for management of Covid-19 in the capital city. SBI Bhubaneswar Circle Chief General manager Ruma Dey handed over the van and ...

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