Chennai: Building material manufacturer Nuvoco Vistas Corp Ltd , recently bagged the fifth CSR Impact Awards 2017-18 in the women empowerment category.
Nuvoco’s Project Samridhi won the award for engaging women in sustainable source of livelihood. The award was handed over by Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Anant Kumar Hegde.
The CSR Impact Awards is an initiative of NGOBOX to encourage companies, CSR foundations and CSR implementing agencies, to deliver high impact through CSR projects and adopt multi-stakeholder approach, leading to excellence in project outcomes.
This initiative focuses on identifying high impact CSR projects in 14 categories at a pan-India level. The awards seek to appreciate project specific impacts made by the organisations in particular thematic areas, to set benchmark in projects planning, identification and delivery of results.
Chief of Special Projects, CSR and Corporate Affairs, Joydeep Chatterjee, said, “As a socially responsible Corporate, Nuvoco has always been driven to bring about holistic development in our surrounding villages and their marginalised communities. Through Samridhi (mushroom cultivation project), we have been able to make the women ‘Saksham’ in terms of economic and social empowerment, and have brought them at par with their male counterparts. This award is a recognition of how, even small but meaningful initiatives can lead to significant and long-term transformations.”