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Vedanta gesture to anganwadi children

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to widen its corporate social responsibility, the Vedanta group has embarked on a mission to care for more than 40,000 anganwadi children in some of the State’s most backward areas.

The Vedanta Aluminium Limited has entered into a MoU with the Orissa government and Sterlite Foundation for adopting 400 anganwadis in Kalahandi district, where its alumina refinery has started trial production at Langjigarh, Vedanta group spokesman C.V. Krishnan told PTI.

The same process was being implemented in Kalahandi and would be replicated in Jharsuguda.

“As every anganwadi has 40 children, the company will be looking after the welfare, food and healthcare requirements of more than 40,000 children,” Krishnan said.

The decision to adopt the anganwadis, he said, was taken on the basis of the company’s experiment of running 100 child welfare centres in different places of the country.

As part of the arrangement, every pre-school child aged between three and six years would be provided a hot cooked meal of 300 calories at noon, said another Vedanta official.

- PTI

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