On the occasion of the World Disability Day 2010, Tata Steel Limited organised sporting events, cultural programs for special participants. The events were organised to acknowledge that these special children are equally and important part of our community. The occasion was market with celebrations by Tata Steel’s Urban Services department in association with local N.G.O's at Gopal Maidan, Jharkhand. Around 200 visually impaired, hearing impaired & physically challenged special children participated in the celebrations wherein 19 sporting events and cultural celebrations.

Tata Steel Rural Development Society (TSRDS), Jharia Division in collaboration with LEPRA Society- SPARSH an Integrated Prevention for Disability Camp at Sparsh Centre.The Objective of the Camp was to demonstrate Self-Care and Distribute Self-Care Kits, Assess the disability of the Patients and issue Multi-Celluar Rubber Slipper and also select patients for Reconstructive Surgery. About 50 different cases of Leprosy were present comprising of Neuritis, Reaction and Grade-11 types at the Centre. Ten new cases were identified and were put under Multi Drug Therapy Treatment. Smear of about 20 patients were tested and were found positive in the Sparsh Centre. Presently at the Sparsh Centre about 294 Leprosy patients are undergoing treatment and Care and about 77 Lymphatic Filariasis patients are also been treated in the Centre.

Tata Steel has always been extending its helping hand to empower, enlighten and infuse a sense of achievement in the marginalized section of the society. The celebrations yet again bear a testimony to the company’s objective for the upliftment of the society.

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Established in 1907 as Asia's first integrated private sector steel company, Tata Steel Group is among the top-ten global steel companies with an annual crude steel capacity of over 28 million tonnes per annum (mtpa). It is now the world's second-most geographically-diversified steel producer, with operations in 26 countries and a commercial presence in over 50 countries. The Tata Steel Group, with a turnover of US$ 23 billion in FY 10, has over 80,000 employees across five continents and is a Fortune 500 company. The Group’s vision is to be the world’s steel industry benchmark in “Value Creation” and “Corporate Citizenship” through the excellence of its people, its innovative approach and overall conduct. Underpinning this vision is a performance culture committed to aspiration targets, safety and social responsibility, continuous improvement, openness and transparency. In 2008, Tata Steel India became the first integrated steel plant in the world, outside Japan, to be awarded the Deming Application Prize 2008 for excellence in Total Quality Management.