With the aim to highlight the importance of rivers and strive to increase public awareness while encouraging improved stewardship of rivers in Noamundi Township, Tata Steel today organised a programme under Tata Engage campaign to promote cleanliness of local river bodies.

Planning department along with Human Resource department and Natural Resource department officers picked up a spot of Balijhor Nallah, the lifeline of Noamundi and downstream villages, for the cleaning activity to promote awareness among maximum number of people of Noamundi.

The main objective of the programme was to sensitize local people about the importance of clean rivers so as to minimize water borne diseases and educate about aquatic life with increased responsibility towards cleanliness of the area where they work, bath or do daily farming.

On the occasion, a rally was also organised from DVC gate to DVC Nallah area. About 52 people along with officers, non-officers and contract workers participated in the activity.

The event witnessed participation from Mr R P Mali, Head-Planning, Noamundi; Mr Sanjit Adhya, Head-Mine Planning; Dr Rajesh Mukherjee, Head-NRD; Mr Utsav Kashyap, Sr Manager-Environment; Mr Rohit Prasad, Manager-HRM along with other contract workers from Noamundi.

‘World Rivers Day’ is a global celebration of the world’s waterways, marked every last Sunday of September.

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Tata Steel Group stands among the top global steel companies with an annual crude steel capacity of 28 million tonnes per annum (MnTPA) and a turnover of US $17.69 billion in FY16. It is the world's second-most geographically-diversified steel producer, with operations in 26 countries and commercial presence in over 50 countries. Established in 1907, the Group’s vision is to be the world 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. Having bagged the Deming Application Prize and Deming Grand Prize for continuous improvement in 2008 and 2012 respectively, Tata Steel has now been recognised as the global ‘Industry Leader’ in ‘Steel category’ by Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Besides being one of ‘worldsteel’s’ Climate Action members, it has also been awarded the CII ITC Sustainability Prize, the ‘Best-in-class Manufacturing’ by TIME Award, the Prime Minister’s Trophy for the best performing integrated steel plant, among several others.