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InfRAStRuCtuRe AnD SAnItAtIOn
We believe in sharing our business success with Pachra Ki Jhonpadiyaan: Declaring an end to
the local communities where we are operating. open defecation one village at a time
The local communities are facing lack of quality I am a farmer who inherited my parent’s land,
infrastructural support like all-weather roads, livelihood, living area and unfortunately, the
drinking water facilities, irrigation systems and habit of defecating in the open. Not one of the
community halls. These services are needed 300 houses in our village had individual toilets.
to improve the quality of life in the rural areas. As a result, my wife, children, including me, and
During the year under review, we constructed eight other villagers, always defecated in the open, on
cement concrete roads / pavements in the villages the land behind the village. We were also quite
near Gadepan under the PPP scheme. Under the ignorant of the link between diseases and open
Swachh Bharat Mission, 130 individual toilets were defecation. And, quite frankly, hygiene was the
constructed in which the government contributed least of our priorities. All that changed when
` 12,000 per toilet and rest of the expense had to I built a dedicated latrine within the four walls of
be borne by us. We also conducted a year-long IEC my house to relieve ourselves.
campaign in the Sultanpur block of Kota district that Shambhu ,Farmer from Pachda Ki Jhonpadiyan
resulted in the construction of around 2500 toilets.
Pachra Ki Jhopariya is all set to become the
first open defecation free village in the Hadauti
region of Rajasthan.

heALthCARe
We are committed to the safety, well-being and
good health of the communities residing around
our plants. To better realize this objective, we have
partnered with the school health annual report
programme (SHARP), a national NGO working
in the health sector. SHARP is working with us in
schools, villages and ITIs.

The focus of our intervention is both prevention and
cure. Health camps and health awareness camps
are regularly organised on subjects as diverse as
menstrual health, perils of tobacco consumption,
and nutrition. Mobile vans-cum-emergency vehicle in the Gadepan region for their healthcare needs.
are available for the local community on a 24 x Additionally, they can avail the services of visiting
7 basis. Moreover, the local communities can specialists in fields such as paediatrics, gynaecology,
access the Company health care centres located skin, dentistry and ENT.

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