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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.

The Jeewan Jyoti Women Empowerment Institute which has till 2017 impacted over 28,000 lives and provided vocational training to over 700 rural women won the CSR Project of the Year Award under the Women’s Empowerment Category at the Indian International CSR Excellence Awards held in New Delhi on 11th May, 2017. The awards were organized by Karunya University and the PHD Chamber of Commerce which is a proactive and dynamic multi-State apex organization. The Chamber acts as a catalyst in the promotion of industry, trade, entrepreneurship and contributes significantly to socio-economic development and capacity building in several fields.

STL won CSR project of the year award for education programme

STL was awarded a Certificate of Merit at the first ever UN-GCNI Best Practices Awards (in Sustainable Development Goals) for the work done in Water Management through Project Jaldoot and at its Waluj Plant through the Zero Water Discharge project. The award was given out at the hands of Global CEO of UNGC, Ms. Lise Kingo, and Dr. Bhaskar Chatterjee, the creator of CSR law on 28th April, 2017.

STL was awarded the Lokmat Corporate Excellence Award for Best CSR Practices. Mr. Ankit Agarwal, Director – Telecom Products accepted the award on behalf of the organisation from Mr. Devendra Fadnavis, Honorable Chief Minister, Maharashtra in Mumbai.

The Lokmat Corporate Excellence Awards seek to identify and celebrate those companies & individuals who have had a positive impact on environment and society as well as their respective businesses. Appreciating STL’s innovative efforts and work in water conservation, the award has asserted STL’s approach to CSR, of creating Shared Value. The award recognises STL’s vision of transforming everyday living, by delivering smarter networks!

Known for its design, build and manage capabilities for smarter networks, STL recently won Amity Global Business School CSR Award for Best CSR Practices in the IT sector. This award recognises STL’s contribution towards establishing excellence through their high-impact CSR initiatives in environmental sustainability, water conservation, rural & community development, women empowerment, e-education, among others. The award was won by STL second year in a row and stands testimony to its commitment of transforming everyday living experiences by creating shared value.

STL received this award for its unique Wi-Fi and Enterprise Network Backhaul Solution using neutral fiber-to-the-x (FTTx) infrastructure. The award was presented by Dr Jitendra Singh – Minister of State, Department of Atomic Energy & Space, Prime Minister’s Office and Sardar RP Singh, National Secretary, BJP at the recently held Aegis Graham Bell Award ceremony, in New Delhi.

STL’s OF Waluj facility won the ‘Gold Award – Process Sector, Large Business’ and it’s OF Shendra facility won ‘Gold Certificate of Merit’. With this, the Waluj Unit has become India’s first to win the recognition in the Process Sector for OF.

Additionally, STL’s Lean Six Project on “Reduction of scrap due to bubble defect” was also recognised as Second Runner-Up in ‘Process Innovation’ category under F&S Project Evaluation & Recognition program (PERP) 2016. This project was appreciated for the methodology used and systematic approach towards problem-solving.

At the acclaimed Telecom Leadership Forum, STL won the Telecom Leadership Forum Award for its contribution towards transforming? the Broadband infrastructure space. The award was given by Mr. Rahul Khullar, former Chairman TRAI, who is responsible for the transformational leap that the telecom industry has taken in recent years.

With increasing focus on gender diversity in the corporate world, AVTAR & Working Mother have jointly instituted the ranking for “100 Best Companies to work for Women in India” for the first time. In the inaugural edition of this ranking, STL has been featured in the “100 Best Companies to work for in India”.

More than 350 organisations took part in this project and top 100 companies were picked on the basis of their workplace profile, flexible work hours, women recruitment & retention, benefits, paid time off, company culture and safety & security. Participating organisations were required to provide data of high-order granularity on their initiatives in each of these areas and a robust data-protected analytics tool was used to evaluate and establish impact points.

In its effort to improve everyday living experiences, externally as well as internally, STL has been at the forefront of some remarkable initiatives for women employees. One of the most prominent among these is the all-women night shift at its Aurangabad-based optical fibre manufacturing facilities at Shendra and Waluj. STL has received an overwhelming response for these shifts as it is one of the first companies to implement it in 2016. The company also focused on increasing gender diversity with nearly 15-20% women candidates joining its workforce from India as well as global universities.

STL also undertakes women empowerment initiatives at the rural level through Jeewan Jyoti. This institute provides equal learning and skill development to women in-and-around Pune for financial independence. The Award was presented by Working Mother, a celebrated gender parity champion in the United States and AVTAR, India’s first diversity advocate & workplace inclusion expert.