Corporate
social responsibility is an integral part of the
Aditya Birla Group's value systems. Today, the
footprint of the Group's social work spans 3,000
villages in India, reaching out to seven million
people annually.
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Mrs. Rajashree Birla was presented the All India Management Association (AIMA) Managing India Award 2011 for 'Corporate Citizen of the Year'. The award was presented by Mr. P. Chidambaram, India’s Union Minister for Home Affairs. |
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The Government of India has bestowed the Padma Bhushan Award on Mrs. Rajashree Birla for her exemplary contribution in the area of ‘Social Work’.The Padma Bhushan is among the highest civilian awards in India and was conferred on Mrs Birla at a special ceremony on 01 April 2011. |
2010 |
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Indian
Rayon, Veraval (a division of Aditya Birla
Nuvo) is awarded The Rajiv Gandhi Environment
Award for Clean Technologies by The Ministry
of Environment and Forests, Government of
India. |
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Mrs.
Rajashree Birla, Chairperson, Aditya Birla
Centre for Community Initiatives and Rural
Development receives 'Hello Hall of Fame'
award for 'Exemplary Philanthropist of the
year' from Worldwide Media Goup's 'Hello'
celebrity journal. |
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Ultratech's
'Concern for Health' project awarded the Asian
Corporate Social Responsibility Award by the
Asian Institute of Management Centre for Corporate
Social Responsibility. |
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Mrs.
Rajashree Birla, Chairperson, Aditya Birla
Centre for Community Initiatives and Rural
Development, awarded the Global Golden Peacock
Life Time Achievement Award for Community
Development for the year 2010 for "Outstanding
Contribution Towards Community Development
and Social Welfare". |
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Hindalco
and Birla White declared winners in the Golden
Peacock Awards for Corporate Social Responsibility
2010 by an eminent international jury, headed
by Justice P.M. Bhagwati, the erstwhile Chief
Justice of India. |
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The
Aditya Birla Centre for Community Initiatives
and Rural Development teams up with Columbia
University's research centre, the Columbia
Global Centers' Earth Institute in Mumbai,
to become its principal partner. The Earth
Institute's goal is to help achieve sustainable
development primarily by expanding people's
understanding of the earth as one integrated
system. |
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Hindalco
wins Amity International Business School’s,
‘Amity Corporate Excellence Award for
Corporate Social Responsibility’ |
2009
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Grasim's
pulp and fibre division wins the highly prestigious
Asian CSR Award. The Asian CSR Awards, Asia's
Premier CSR Awards program, is a project of
the Asian Institute of Management, Manila. |
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Rajiv
Gandhi Award for Eminence in Social Field,
2009 conferred on Mrs. Rajashree Birla by
Mr. Jyotiraditya Scindia (Union Minister of
State, Commerce & Industry) on 19 August
2009. The award recognises Mrs. Birla's pathbreaking
work among the poor, more so in India's villages,
carried out through the Aditya Birla Centre
for Community Initiatives and Rural Development. |
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Vikram
Cement and Aditya Cement wins the Federation
of Indian Mineral and Industries' "Social
Awareness Award for the year 2008-09". |
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Reader's
Digest Pegasus Star Award conferred on Hindalco
in recognition of work that truly exemplifies
the highest values of society and corporate
leadership for social responsibility and sustainable
development initiatives. Mrs. Rajashree Birla,
who spearheads all the Group's social projects,
received this much coveted award on behalf
of Hindalco from Mr. Arun Jaitley, MP, Rajya
Sabha, on 21 January 2009 in Delhi. |
2008
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The President of India, Mrs. Pratibha Patil
confers the much coveted Rotary International
Polio Eradication Champion Award on Mrs. Rajashree
Birla in an elegant function at the Rashtrapati
Bhavan (Delhi), attended by the Chairman,
select Rotarians and WHO officials. |
2007
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The
Aditya Birla Group honoured with the India
Today Group's Readers Digest Gold award in
recognition of the work that truly exemplifies
the highest values of society as well as those
of Reader's Digest. The award was received
by Mrs. Rajashree Birla, Chairperson, Aditya
Birla Center for Community Initiatives and
Rural Development, at the Pegasus Corporate
Social Responsibility Awards 2007 function. |
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Hindalco
awarded the CII - Sorabji Green Business Centre
"National Award for Excellence in Water
Management 2007". |
2006
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Hindalco
awarded the Greentech Safety Silver Award
for its outstanding safety performance during
2005-06. |
2004
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Grasim,
Nagda, receives the FICCI Annual Award 2003-2004
in recognition of corporate initiaitve in
rural development. |
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Aditya
Birla Chemicals (India) Limited, Rehla, Jharkhand,
receives the
FICCI Annual Award 2003-2004 in recognition
of corporate initiative in family welfare. |
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Indal
wins FICCI Award 2002-2003 for 'Corporate
Initiative in Rural Development'. |
2003
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The
Group is ranked 16th in India's first ever
survey of 'Great places to work in', published
in Business World magazine. The Group's
joint venture concern, Birla Sun Life Insurance,
is ranked 9th in the same study. |
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The
Group is ranked 20th in a study on the 'Best
Employers in India', conducted by Hewitt Associates
and Business Today. |
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Hindalco
receives the Asian CSR Award for its "Rural
Poverty Alleviation Programme". The Asian
CSR Awards are Asia's premier awards programme
on corporate social responsibility. |
2002
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The
Group receives The Economic Times'
"Corporate Citizen" of the year
award. |
2000
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The
Group announces its intention to launch a
450 MW 'Green Power Project' in Karnataka
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