Communities
Kendujhar, Odisha
Sharing Success
Inherent to our success, is the success and progress of the communities that we operate in. We recognize that working with local communities and securing their approval is an integral component of sustainable growth. Our initiatives include improving social infrastructure, upskilling individuals, creating job opportunities and providing healthcare. In short, we do whatever it takes to ensure that we are truly deserving of the goodwill that our local communities bestow upon us.
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Women
Empowerment
At Thriveni, we actively seek to empower women through life-altering initiatives.
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India’s first team of HEMM Women drivers.
- India’s first team of HEMM women drivers.
- 12 women drivers from a tribal backgrounds have been certified to operate 100 tonne dumper trucks at the PB coal mine.
- They previously drove auto-rickshaws, and have now gained official permission from the NTPC.
- The company is confident that they will inspire several others.
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We set up a garment and footwear manufacturing unit close to Pakri Barwadih Coal Mines.
- The main thrust of the project is to empower women socially and economically so that they could contribute to society.
- The project is likely to benefit 17 villages of Chepakalan, Dadikalan and Sindiwari panchayats of the Barkagaon block.
- The project aims to provide employment to 1000 people, most of them women.
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Achievements
- Trained the tribal women, enrolling them into skilled programs teaching tailoring, driving and other valuable abilities.
- Extended financial support to the SHGs.
- Supported by Thriveni, Mukta Munda won the bronze medal in Football at the 2019 Special Olympics in Abu Dhabi. Along with Sangeeta Munda (Football) and Ghanashyam Munda (Archery), she was also awarded the Best Sports Person Award from a reputed institution.
- Smt. Mukta Munda & Smt. Sangeeta Munda -Football.
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Skill
Development
At Thriveni, we believe in talent
development, as everyone deserves to achieve their true potential.
Security training
Simulator training
Driver training
Training the differently-abled
Security training
- We identified the need for private security, and an opportunity to provide employment to local youth.
- We started an academy which imparted free training to youth, benefitting hundreds of families who had no other opportunity to achieve financial stability.
- We selected youth from the BPL category and provided them with basic skill sets, making them employable for the burgeoning security and disaster management industries. The entire training expenditure is borne by the company.
- The 45 day course is conducted by a dedicated set of trainers who are retired defence personnel. Each batch consists of up to 80 students from BPL families belonging to the district of Keonjhar and Hazaribag of Jharkhand.
- The academy has over the years not only produced people who have gone on to serve Indian security and defence establishments but also produced state and national level athletes.
Simulator training
- Thriveni has set up an academy for simulator-based training in large mining equipment. We own some of the most advanced simulators in the world.
- This training institute is recognized by the Skill Development Council of India.
- It provides operators with a safe environment to learn and practise their skills. It is an affiliated training centre for SCMS under the National Skill Development Corporation of GOI.
- Through further skill upgradation these people, once unskilled and unemployable, now operate some of the largest mining machines available in the world.
Driver training
- We designed and launched Project Sarathi which enables skill upgradation of security guards to LMV and HMV drivers through rigorous professional, practical and simulator training.
- The first batch of 18 MTLL Guards enthusiastically joined the training program.
- We aim to roll out one batch every month.
Training the differently-abled
- Our foundation conducted several training sessions in collaboration with the Govt of Tamil Nadu to impart training to those who are visually impaired in Salem, Tamil Nadu.
- Through interactive and innovative sessions with professionals, the Thriveni Foundation has brought light to the lives of many individuals who had lost all hope of a normal life.
- Through the Vodafone centre, we have provided employment to more than 50 people while creating an avenue of employment for many more through specialised training sessions, free of cost.
- The Thriveni Foundation is the only charitable foundation in the country operating a tailoring unit run by the the differently-abled, creating an avenue of employment for hordes of people.
At Thriveni, we consider ourselves custodians of the localities in which our operations are present. We aim to deliver solutions beyond mining.
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Local
Infrastructure
Agriculture >>
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Agriculture practices
- We promote community farming and development in tribal villages of Bansal Block, Keonjhar, in collaboration with the Adarsh Odisha Foundation.
- Women farmers are taught modern techniques and given seeds and fertilizers free of cost, through village-level co-operatives.
- 5000 people from 1345 households in 18 villages have benefitted.
- 300 acres of land and 500 acres of kitchen gardens were used for cultivation.
- ₹90 lakh has been spent so far on this project.
Roads and Water >>
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Roads and water
- We transformed remote village roads into black-topped roads, covering 12 panchayats in the Joda-Barbil-Koira area.
- We constructed bridges and culverts over nallahs and rivers and widened the public roads beyond NHAI standards.
- We also developed tourist hubs like Sanaghagara, the Handibhanga waterfall and several others, as well as places of spiritual importance.
- We supply clean drinking water to 35 villages, with 48 borewells and 33 overhead tanks constructed.
Old-age Home >>
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Old-age home
- We established Anandashram for the old and destitute.
- Inmates are provided with free accommodation, clothing, food and medical care.
- Recreational activities like yoga are a part of the curriculum.
- We coined the unique ‘grand-parenting’ concept where school children interact with the old, establishing a symbiotic exchange of values and quality time.
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Supporting children
- Augmenting the governmental efforts on Early Childhood Care & Education (ECCE), we customised programs which targeted the well-being of children below six years of age, to make them school ready.
- We provide nutritious meals to 34 children of the Digdarshan school, Keonjhar, Odisha.
- We provide transportation, meals, uniforms and study material free of cost to 112 students of Thriveni Public School, Keonjhar, Odisha.
- We provide financial assistance to the school of rehabilitation, and education to the audibly and visually-impaired to better the lives of special needs children.
- We provide monthly donations and support to Vidya Bhawan school and Adivasi Vikash Samiti, Keonjhar.
- Health
We provide healthcare facilities to locals in Odisha and have tie-ups with super speciality hospitals.
- 10 ambulances
- 9 dispensaries
- 12 paramedical staff
- 15,000+ villagers
- 10 doctors
- 180+ villages
We have a 24x7 medical facility in and around the projects and occupational health centres with NIOH-certified doctors engaged in testing occupational diseases.
We started a hi-tech diagnostic centre in 2007 to cater to the pathological investigation needs of patients in the Joda, Barbil area.
During the 2001 malaria epidemic, we were the first to buy a machine for testing, and made these available free of cost. To treat epidemics, we also ran health camps in interior villages and flood-affected remote regions.
The famous American AS-OCT along with its peripheral equipment was handed over to LVPEI, Bhubaneshwar on the 29th of July, 2014. It is dedicated to the care of underprivileged Glaucoma patients in Odisha.
After collecting data on rampant dengue in Barbil, our CSR team of doctors, pharmacists, health workers and officers were mobilized to create awareness, saving many lives.