Ensuring better quality of life for relocated families
Kalinganagar: Aimed at providing a better quality of life, income and happiness to the families relocated for its project in Kalinganagar, Tata Steel has implemented the ‘Tata Steel Parivar’ rehabilitation scheme, setting a new benchmark in resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R). Under the scheme, all efforts are being made to provide high quality education and healthcare facilities, while also promoting livelihood opportunities.
Tata Steel is providing free education to children of relocated families. At present, about 200 children from relocated families are studying at Loyola School located in Gobarghati. Further, Tata Steel Parivar scholarships are also being provided for nominated members of relocated families pursuing higher and professional education in fields such as medicine, engineering and management. So far, 240 students have benefitted from this scholarship scheme. All relocated families are also being provided free treatment for health-related issues, including critical diseases, at Tata Steel Medica Super Specialty Hospital at Kalinganagar.
As part of its endeavour to provide better quality of life after relocation, the company has set up modern rehabilitation colonies at Trijanga, Sansailo and Gobarghati. In each colony, infrastructure facilities such as all-weather motorable roads, drainage, community centre, bore well, piped water supply to each plot, street lights and playgrounds have been provided.
Aimed at providing modern amenities in rehabilitation colonies, Birsa Munda Rehabilitation Colony in Gobarghati, where about 800 families are resettled, is being developed as a model R&R colony. As per the master plan, several infrastructure facilities are under various stages of construction.
In the first phase of the plan, a water treatment plant having a capacity of 1 million litres per day has been made operational to provide safe drinking water to all residents of the Birsa Munda Colony. The construction of a sewage treatment plant, community centres, club house and market complex are in progress. Similar plans for the development of model colonies at Sansailo and Trijanga are also in process.
Supported by Tata Steel, more than 100 women belonging to the relocated families have formed the ‘Navjeevan Cooperative’, which is engaged in various livelihood activities such as stitching, painting, manufacturing of stationery items and noodle making. The cooperative has been able to achieve an annual turnover of about Rs25 lakh. Apart from creating livelihood opportunities, the company has been instrumental in promoting entrepreneurship among the relocated families. More than 60 relocated families have been developed as vendor partners and are currently executing various jobs in Tata Steel Kalinganagar.
