major events hosted by Tata Steel to promote sports were Senior Women National Boxing Championship, Tata Steel National Ranking Archery Championship, 5th JRD Tata Half Marathon, Special Olympics and Tata Steel AFI Athletics Meet.

A number of health programs are run by Tata Steel through TSRDS and Tata Steel Family Initiatives Foundation (TSFIF). Tata Steel has consolidated its association with Lifeline Express, India’s first hospital on rails. The tenth Tata Steel sponsored Lifeline Express tour, at Sini Railway Station in FY ’05-06, enabled more than 2500 patients with optical problems as well as orthopedic, ENT and congenital deformities from West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar and Jharkhand to avail free medical treatment.

Tata Steel, through TSFIF, organized a mega AIDS Awareness campaign during the Trucker’s Utsav 2005, which touched over 3000 truckers. Counseling sessions at Sneha Kendras (counseling centers), targeted intervention projects and awareness building programs were held in rural as well as urban areas. 100% high-risk population across 22 villages and 100% high school children in 72 villages were covered under awareness programs on HIV/AIDS. In addition programs on sterilization, spacing and reproductive health awareness were carried out by TSFIF with 12,000 permanent family planning operations having been conducted.

Tata Steel, through TSRDS, also ensured treatment of one lakh patients through mobile clinics and immunization of 81.2% children in 197 villages in the period under review. In addition, Tata Steel has constructed an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Government hospital at Bolangir, Orissa at a cost of Rs. 20Lakhs, to provide immediate emergency services. It has set up a unit in Ranchi to address the health care needs of the villages in Arki block near Ranchi and in Jharkhand State, Tata Steel is committed to contribute Rs. 25Crores every year, for the next 30 years, to a government run Health Insurance Scheme for the State’s Below Poverty Line (BPL) families who would avail a medical insurance umbrella at zero cost.

Since 1934, Tata Steel has worked to respond to natural disasters. In the year gone by, it has rendered service to victims of the Tsunami and the devastating floods in Orissa. Through the Tata Relief Committee, the Company provided relief to over 10, 000 families by setting up relief camps and undertaking rehabilitation and reconstruction projects including building 100 ‘in-situ’ houses in the fishermen’s colony and 800 housing units in Nagapattinam. Tata Steel in coordination with the District Administration responded with immediate relief services in four blocks in the Jajpur District of Orissa when 2400 families were affected by heavy rainfall in the area.

Tribal Culture
Tribal Cultural Society (TCS) of Tata Steel continued to support and inculcate the culture and heritage of various tribes of the region among the tribal youth and urbanized tribal communities. It organized all important tribal festivals with their traditional aspects and tribal dance, drama, music and song competitions which were conducted by the tribal communities, thereby giving them an opportunity to develop and sustain the unique richness of their culture.

Business Ethics
As a tribute to late Mr. J R D Tata, July is celebrated as Ethics Month. This has helped reinforce employee involvement and passion in the Management of Business Ethics (MBE). A significant milestone in MBE process was the decision of the Board of Directors to adopt and implement the ‘Whistle Blower Policy’ in the Company. The policy encourages the employees to raise their concerns, without fear to the Ethics Counselor and/or the Chairman of the Audit Committee. The policy also provides for protection of the Whistle Blower by a ‘Whistle Blower Protection Committee’ headed by Dy. Managing Director (Corporate Services). In order to effectively deploy the Tata Code of Conduct, a ‘Gift Policy’ was adopted by the Company, to create uniform understanding by employees regarding gifts. The salient features of the Policy were also communicated to other stakeholders like vendors, contractors etc. for making this more effective.

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