More than 5,000 differently abled persons have been fitted with artificial limbs making them self-reliant. The Aditya Birla Group has helped immunize 50 million children against polio over the last decade. Alongside, the Group is engaged in a major project with Vision Foundation of India to provide sight to 6,600 blind people. The Group has installed 47 Reverse Osmosis (RO) plants which provides drinking water to villagers near its units.
In their endeavour towards open defecation-free villages, they have helped set up over 20,000 toilets, partly leveraging government schemes for the social sector. In 50 villages, spanning over 2,000 households in Jammu & Kashmir, the Group has provided 2,010 toilets.
The Project of Creating Model Villages. This project is absolutely replicable and much recommended to all. The Group has earmarked 300 villages for transformation into model villages. The Group has earmarked 300 villages for transformation into model villages. Making of a model village entails ensuring self-reliance in all aspects, namely, education, healthcare and family welfare, infrastructure, agriculture and watershed management and working towards sustainable livelihood patterns. This is to fundamentally ensure that their development reaches a stage wherein village committees take over the complete responsibility and the teams become dispensable. Till now, the Aditya Birla Group has been able to transform 99 villages into model villages across India.
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