We strongly believe that business is a priority but social welfare is a responsibility. This is a key for sustainable development. Thus, we have undertaken wide ranging community development activities around our plant at Chhatak and our quarry in Meghalaya.

One of the focus areas for our CSR initiatives is Healthcare. We have so far undertaken a number of initiatives in this regard. We have provided sanitation wares to two hundred (200) families in remote villages near the plant at Chhatak. We have also provided arsenic filters to all the project affected families to ensure access to safe drinking water.

There is also a qualified physician and a nurse available everyday to provide free medical assistance in a medical clinic at the Community Development Centre at Chhatak which has brought tremendous relief to the Projected Affected People (PAPs). They now have access to primary health-care that includes consultation and medicinal support. Satellite clinic sessions are also held periodically in remote villages taking health-care services to the doorsteps of the villagers.

Earlier children of the PAPs at Chhatak never went to any school as there was no schooling facility nearby and the guardians lacked motivation to educate their children. Now they have access to education and their children regularly attend primary lessons in language, mathematics, geography, science and art. The school has been named as “LSC Community Welfare School” which offers free education up to class five. We have also opened up a library at the school complex where school children now get the opportunity to read different kinds of books which are very important for their general knowledge development.

We also take pride in lending a hand in community infrastructure development initiatives. We have assisted in the construction of a mosque for the local community beside the housing complex near the plant at Chhatak. Engineers of the Company provided support in designing and other necessary preparation work. Also we have donated Supercrete cement for the construction work of the mosque.

Once living as dependent housewives, women in the project affected community at Chhatak now have sufficient opportunities for empowerment through income generating activities on poultry rearing, sewing, kitchen gardening, candle making and even on shop-management, with necessary vocational training and start-up capital provided by us.

Apart from all these, we have always tried to be at the forefront in responding to the needs of the disadvantaged people in and around our operations at the trying times. We have, on number of occasions, undertaken initiatives to distribute blankets during winter, food items during eid holidays, relief packages during floods, etc.

LUMPL, the Indian subsidiary of LSC, has also undertaken wide ranging community development activities in the field of healthcare, education, infrastructure development, water supply scheme and development of livelihood in the villages surrounding the mining site in Meghalaya especially at the villages of Nongtrai and Shella.

In addition to a permanent healthcare centre, a Mobile Clinic and a registered medical doctor, free medical services including medicines are being provided to the surrounding villagers of our mining site operations. LUMPL organized several health camps where free pathological tests, dental and vision screening tests, distribution of spectacles free of costs and free cataract operations were conducted.

LUMPL provides annual scholarships to the local bright and needy students, assistance for enhancement of schoolteacher’s salary, support to the school’s infrastructure and academic gadgets to the students.

LUMPL has also set up a weaving centre at Nongtrai village for the interested women of the community. Exhibitions are organized for the students to showcase their products.

The local community has also been supported by improvement of the basic community infrastructures like construction of concrete walkways, washing ramps, public lavatories, bathing enclosures, drains etc.