Bpcl Csr

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Executive Summary

The project enables me to know various aspects of Corporate Social Responsibilities and its importance and steps taken by Bharat Petroleum towards social activities.

BPCL is a Model Corporate Entity with Social Responsibility and also builds a powerful partnership with society for ‘Sustainable Development’.

Adoption of Villages:

As a corporate responsibility, today 37 villages across India have been adopted by BPCL. This includes making substantial investments for nearly a decade and a half in them to make them fully self reliant, providing them fresh drinking water, sanitation facilities, medical facilities, enhancing their income standards by imparting vocational training and agricultural innovations. However, BPCL also firmly believes that the only vehicle for raising the villagers from their present state is by educating the young and the old, a focus on providing grants for opening schools and opening adult literacy camps as well. A Herculean task indeed, which BPCL recognized and thus even sought assistance from NGO's working around these centers in fulfilling its dream, which to many of BPCL employee's still remains incomplete, on account of the large magnitude of work necessary in completion.

Care for Next Generation :

At BPCL we believe that it’s equally important to return back to society. Which is why, we believe some of our finest achievements aren’t those found in our balance sheets but those, in small towns and villages spread across India. Our involvement in sharing this wider responsibility dates way back to 1984, when in pursuance with our philosophy “to give back to the society/community our best”, we aimed to help the people enrich their lives, be it our employees or their families also extending the scope of definition of families to those that we saw beyond our glass cabins in these rustic surroundings, and thus started our romance. Today, we term them as our extended family i.e. our villagers from rural areas....