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At the recently conducted ‘LinkedIn Content 50’ powered by Paul Writer, Alok Chander – Head of Marketing, STL, was presented with the “Top 50 Desi Content Marketers” award. The event was held to felicitate marketing professionals who have made significant contributions through several marketing campaigns on the basis of their creativity, targeting, effectiveness, execution, and innovation.

STL’s webinar campaign led by Alok Chander, particularly received recognition, as it has been strengthening the company’s position as a key thought leader in the industry.

At the recently held My India WiFi India Summit 2018 in New Delhi, STL and BSNL were declared joint winners of the “Best Wi-Fi Monetisation Solution” award.

BSNL has deployed STL’s next-generation Wi-Fi Monetisation and Service Management Platform (SMP) in its network as a core solution which handles traffic from multiple access points. This integrated platform supports guest subscribers from public Wi-Fi hotspots, mobile data offload for BSNL’s existing packet core subscribers, and provides the mobile wireless broadband alternative for BSNL’s existing wireline subscribers.

STL’s unique SMP allows BSNL to leverage carrier Wi-Fi as an integral part of their heterogeneous network services to improve spectral efficiency, offer bundled plans; earn profitability, and deliver a high-quality user experience.

Making a difference to lives of citizens, this cloud-ready SMP also enables operators to tap new revenue opportunities with innovative offerings for different business verticals such as public venues, enterprises, residences, hospitality, municipalities, stadiums, universities, malls etc.

STL won the “Best-In-Class Cross-Functional Teamwork Project” award, at the 12th edition of the Express Logistics and Supply Chain Conclave, held on October 4, 2018, in Mumbai.

For a particular raw material, the entire cabling industry was dependent on foreign imports owing to the absence of Indian suppliers, low availability and high TCO. The objective of the project was to re-engineer the recipe and process for this key raw material, utilising only Indian resources, ensuring zero investment, timely delivery, and high quality of performance.

STL’s supply chain team led the initiative with the specific PDCA approach. A cross-functional team consisting of internal departments like Quality, Design, Production, Process; external team 3 suppliers, and Subject Matter Experts. The teams utilized the Stage-gate model, brainstorming approaches, Ishikawa diagrams, root cause analysis, and multi-stage trials during the project. The biggest challenge was keeping performance consistency despite parameters changes, as all the steps in the overall process were interlinked. However, with persistence, the team could eventually achieve their goal with complete precision.

The successful outcome of these efforts has now led to the high quality manufacturing of the raw material within national boundaries with abundant supply, and an end to the monopoly of foreign suppliers. Reduction of time and elimination of custom-duty are further added advantages.

On 25th October at The Taj Mahal Hotel, New Delhi, Amit Deshpande, Company Secretary & Corporate General Counsel at STL, was inducted into the Top 100 General Counsel Powerlist – India 2018 by Legal 500. This was no easy feat as the evaluation involved a comprehensive research process which ran over months and included various intricate elements.

Amit, a senior legal professional with over 15 years of experience in areas such as Corporate Law, M&A, corporate restructuring, legal due diligence and more, has played crucial roles, spearheading acquisitions, demergers, dispute settlements, and onboardings of new investors. At STL, Amit is instrumental in driving secretarial, corporate legal, ethics and compliance initiatives, among various others.

The industry has recognized the significance of Amit’s contributions over the years, and has inducting him into the prestigious league of Top 100 legal professionals in India.

Demonstrating exceptional hold in the supply chain, logistics & procurement space, STL bagged the ELSC Supply Chain Collaboration award. The ceremony took place at the CPO Forum on October 25, at Novotel Mumbai.

The company received this recognition for its innovation and excellence demonstrated through collaboration with internal and external partners.

In addition, the company’s contributions were also recognised giants such as Capgemini and Mahindra & Mahindra, from the IT and automobile worls respectively.

STL won CSR project of the year award for women empowerment programme

Received platinum award for Rakholi plant

Received gold award for Dadra plant

The Jury Commendation Award was won by STL at the 16th FICCI CSR Awards, for large-scale impact in water management in the drought-hit Aurangabad region. It’s Project Jaldoot has resulted in a 150 per cent increase in Aurangabad’s water-storage capacity. Through this initiative, 22 check dams were constructed in 16 villages, along with strategic focus on dam structures and water management, for long-term impact.

Between 2016 – 2017, Project Jaldoot brought about an increase of 644,000 cubic metre of groundwater in eight villages, directly benefiting 14,000 villagers. The project has resulted in over 6,000 villagers accessing clean drinking water and 20 per cent increase in the average incomes in these villages, leading to transformational changes in the everyday living experiences of the people, while ensuring security of livelihoods and significant economic growth.

STL won the prestigious CII-ITC Sustainability Award in New Delhi on December 12, for its transformative efforts to create shared value in e-education, healthcare, women empowerment and environment management. In alignment with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, STL’s CSR initiatives have contributed significantly to the four pillars of community, people, environment and conduct. In the e-education space, STL School Tech launched the Virtual Classrooms project, a technology investment to change India’s education landscape with a vision to provide quality education and equal growth opportunities to students from lower income families. Since its inception in 2013, this program has reached more than 1,72,000 children in 480 Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai schools. In terms of healthcare, through its Mobile Medical Unit programme launched in partnership with the Indian Red Cross Society in 2006, STL has made a striking difference to Dadra & Nagar Haveli’s tribal population. Free health check-ups to 24 villages, site visits by doctors, and a mobile dispensary serving more than 2 lakh patients, have ensured good health and overall well-being of the villagers in the region.

In conjunction with Government of India’s Skill India Mission, STL Foundation set up the Jeewan Jyoti Women Empowerment Institute in 2014 at Ambavane, with a conscious focus on technical education through vocational trainings like nursing, computer operations, data entry, tailoring, fashion designing. The institute has improved the socio-economic status of women from 93 villages in the Pune region till date.Identifying Aurangabad’s drought condition as a socio-economic challenge, the company constructed 22 check dams in 16 villages since 2006. Named Project Jaldoot, this initiative resulted in an increase of 6,44,000 cubic metre of groundwater in 8 villages, benefitting 14,000 villagers during 2016 – 2017. With over 6,000 villagers accessing clean drinking water, 150% increase in the water-storage capacity, and 20% increase in the average incomes, Project Jaldoot has brought transformational changes in the everyday living experiences of the people in the region. Proactively launching Project Green Belt, STL also planted 5,000 trees on both sides of the 2-km road to MIDC, Waluj, mitigating the effects of industrialisation in Aurangabad.

The Bombay Chamber of Commerce Civic Award was won by STL under the Social Development Category on 24th October, 2017 for the company’s high-impact CSR work in Mumbai, Aurangabad, Silvassa and Pune.

The award publicly acknowledges and honors conspicuous achievements by corporate organizations to improve environmental, social and cultural metrics by way of service to the community, in addition to outstanding operational performance. It also recognizes businesses that have shown innovation, creativity and sustained commitment to corporate responsibility.

STL has always aimed at keeping its environmental impact as neutral as possible with zero water discharge at its manufacturing units and employing technologies to optimize energy consumption. Its water conversation efforts taken up through Project Jaldoot in Aurangabad focus on not only building and maintaining rainwater harvesting infrastructures, but also creating water conservation awareness and providing sustainable agriculture trainings, groundwater recharge and related support. This has increased water supply to the community, thereby bettering income opportunities for farmers by up to 30 per cent. STL has also replenished 644,000 cubic meters of groundwater thought Project Jaldoot, approximately 2.5 times I consumes as its facilities.