Tata Steel’s Ore, Mines and Quarries (OMQ) Division at Joda organised “Goonj 2019” during National Youth Day on January 12-13, 2016. Various programmes were organised under “Goonj 2019” with the theme ‘the voices that conquer’. The main objective of the event was to create a platform to address the challenges of adolescence and develop sensitivity among them to utilize their full potential.

During the first day of the event, an inter-school Kabaddi Meet was organised. Nine high schools in Joda block where Tata Steel has implemented its RISHTA (Regional Initiative for Safe Sexual Health by Today’s Adolescents) project participated in the Kabaddi Meet. The platform was created with the thought to give them an opportunity to discover how sports play an integral role in their holistic development. Around 200 children participated in this Kabaddi Meet. Mr G P Sahu, Head, FAP, Tata Steel, Joda inaugurated the Meet and encouraged the adolescents with his words of wisdom. After the sports meet, the day continued with “Design for Change” workshops. The programme was designed for adolescents with an aim to address the problems of magnanimity with small steps which they can take themselves.

On the second day of the event, Tata Steel in association with Ummeed Foundation organised a workshop on life skills of the adolescents. Mr Rajesh Kumar, Chief (Joda), Tata Steel graced the occasion as Chief Guest and urged the youths to take their learnings back from these two days to their communities. Ms Salony Priya, Founder Director of the Foundation along with Counsellor, Ms Payel Chatterjee, were present in the participative workshop with the youth on life skills of the adolescents. The workshop emphasized on five steps to deal with any problem: Learn, Change, Adapt, Cope and Develop. Also, case studies based on real life incidents were given to the youths to test their approach towards these situations. At the end, winning team and runner-up team of the Kabaddi tournament were felicitated by Chief Guest. The winners and runners up for the Boys Kabaddi tournament were St Teresa School and Bamebari High School respectively. While, Basudevpur Kanyaashram and Joda High School were the winners and runners up respectively in the Girls Kabaddi tournament. Tata Steel Rural Development Society, the CSR wing of Tata Steel organised the programmes successfully. The event witnessed huge gathering from all sections of the society and was applauded by the community.

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Tata Steel Group is among the top global steel companies with an annual crude steel capacity of 27.5 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) as on March 31, 2018. It is one of the world's most geographically diversified steel producers, with operations and commercial presence across the world. The Group recorded a consolidated turnover of US $20.41 billion (INR 133,016 crore) in FY18. Tata Steel Group is spread across five continents with an employee base of over 65,000. Tata Steel retained Industry Leader position in FY18 and ranked second overall in the DJSI assessment, 2017. The Company has been recognised as the Climate Disclosure Leader in ‘Steel category’ by CDP (2017). Besides being a member of the World Steel Climate Action Programme, Tata Steel was felicitated with several awards including the Prime Minister’s Trophy for the best performing integrated steel plant for 2014-15 and 2015-16, Best Risk Management by CNBC TV18 (2018) and ‘Corporate Strategy Award’ by Mint (2018). The Company also received the ‘Most Ethical Company’ award from Ethisphere Institute for the sixth time (2018), Steel Sustainability Champions (2017) by the World Steel Association, Dun & Bradstreet Corporate Awards (2017 & 2018), Golden Peacock HR Excellence Award by Institute of Directors (2017) as well as 'Asia's Best Integrated Report' award by the Asia Sustainability Reporting Awards (2017), among several others.

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