FICCI award for SAIL chairman
08 May 2007
Kolkata: The president, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam presented the Businessworld-FICCI-SEDF Corporate Social Responsibility Award - 2006 to S.K. Roongta, chairman of SAIL, at the FICCI Auditorium here on Monday.
The award recognises the innovative corporate social responsibility initiatives taken by SAIL in the fields of education, access to drinking water, medical and healthcare, sanitation, communication/roads, women''s empowerment, tribal welfare, environment preservation, sports, heritage preservation, etc. This is the first time that a public sector enterprise has won the award since it was instituted in 1999.