National Aluminium Company (NALCO) has been honored for excellence in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for its flagship project 'Nalco Ki Ladli' at the National CSR Awards ceremony.
Inspired by the 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' initiative of the Centre, the Nalco Ki Ladli program provides adoption of poor girl students to enable them to study and settle in life. At present, the company has adopted 416 poor girl students from 66 villages in 45 schools in Angul and Damanjodi. It plans to scale up the scheme at pan India level covering poor girl children of Odisha, aspiration districts of the country and Nalco's peripheral villages.
NALCO has the largest integrated alumina-aluminium complex of Asia. Its integrated operations cover the entire aluminium production value chain from mining bauxite, refining alumina, smelting aluminium, captive power generation to a strong logistic network in terms of rail & port facilities, coal mining and handling plant to support its operations and to become one of the most cost-efficient aluminium companies across the globe.
