Initiatives in Quality System Improvement is a constant focus area. Over the past two years, we have emphasized on ‘Process’ Compliance through implementation of German Automotive Industry Standard - VDA 6.3 requirement across all automotive manufacturing and support functions. Implementation of VDA 6.3 has helped us to verify the process compliance at micro-level and driving actions for improvement of any non-conformities identified.
With the pandemic and lockdowns continuing into FY 2022, we continued with our policy of work from home to deliver on our customers’ requirements. All employees were equipped with necessary infrastructure like workstations and internet connectivity, and additionally a networking access was created to the Company servers to enable them fetch necessary information. This enabled us to continually develop new products on time to the satisfaction of customers amidst disruptive scenario.
One of the keys to delivering customer needs and expectation is to better understand their needs. Towards this, we have formalized a new system of weekly interactions involving a cross-functional team of key account managers, engineering and IT teams and business heads. This team undertakes a detailed discussion on RFQs received, resulting in a better understanding of customer expectation and addressing them with focus on quality, cost and delivery parameters.
Post pandemic with all travel restrictions removed, we have resumed with customer visits to better understand their requirements, build relations and instill confidence. This is then followed by regular virtual interactions to ensure smooth flows. Further, we have initiated visits of engineers engaged in the project along with heads which reinforces confidence of customers in us and also provides on-field exposure to our people.
Lives touched
Youth skilled
Rural lives touched
Volunteers per year
Students impacted
Women empowered
Sportsmen supported
Improving village education at
Total water storage capacity created
Total benefited land
Drinking water tanks
Water filter
Total silt removed
Road construction
Bandharas
Land leveling
At Bharat Forge, we are on an ambitious mission to develop and fulfill the needs of 100 marginalized villages of Maharashtra while ensuring to uplift every member through a sustainable development model. Over the years, we have brought meaningful changes in several villages and continue to further on our mission.
Clean drinking water Improving sanitation
Improving health conditions and nutrition
Promoting education
Road and gutter development
Women of Gongawale Village, Maan Taluka had to travel 4 kms daily to get water. We have constructed two water tanks with a capacity 1 lakh liters and 1.5 lakh liters which has ensured availability of water every alternate day near their doorstep.
people benefited
Water in Askarwadi Village, Purandar Taluka was unclean and affecting the health of the villagers. They had to resort to getting water tankers as this region is hilly and there was no source of water. We installed a 1,000 liter per hour water filter which has ensured steady availability of clean and hygienic water.
villagers benefited
Nagewadi in Koregaon Taluka is a poor and drought-prone village. There was a need to solve the water and economic issue. We undertook a project to desilt the water reservoir which has created an additional water storage capacity of 21 TCM which is addressing the need for drinking water and enabling agriculture. This drought-hit village can now become a green village.
We have executed a project in Belewadi Village, Taluka Koregaon whereby Siphon method was used to make available water in bandharas. It involved distributing the water from main reservoir to 8 bandharas through pipeline. The bandharas now stay full of water all through the year, as against only during the monsoon season earlier.
We held a Swachh Sunder Gaon (clean and beautiful village) competition across 24 villages of Koregaon Taluka. This resulted in villagers across these villages undertaking significant cleanliness and beautification initiatives which have completely changed their look.
Construction of open gutters in Saygaon for Swachh Sundar Gaon competition
We have undertaken a cancer screening and diagnosis camp in collaboration with Samvedna NGO and Sahaydri Hospital to spread awareness on breast and cervical cancer in Koregaon, Satara. 750 underprivileged women were benefited. A cardiac checkup and awareness camp was also done benefiting 175 people.
We undertook revamping of school infrastructure by constructing six classrooms in Girim Village, Daund Taluka. We also constructed two classrooms at Zilla Parishad School of Vadgaon Kashimbe Village in Ambegaon Taluka. At Hadapsar, a cleanliness drive was conducted at PMC school Vidyaniketan Shala.
We have undertaken various road construction projects across Takale and Pimpri in Koregaon, Khalad and Ambale in Purandar. At Malshiras and Nagazri villages of Purandar Taluka we undertook construction of paver pathways to improve infrastructure of primary healthcare centers.
We are supporting women self-help groups in Hadapsar, Keshavnagar and Wadgaonsheri. These have helped empowered women in earning livelihood and improving their as well as their families’ life. We helped in providing necessary infrastructure, entrepreneurship opportunities and imparting vocational skills. We are also helping in participation across various events and exhibitions.
During the period of COVID-19 pandemic, we undertook efforts to strengthen the health structure in the villages by helping enhance medical infrastructure of the primary health care centers and sub-centers. These efforts helped improve the moral of healthcare providers and thus their readiness to provide effective health services which helped reduce death rate by ~25-30% in these villages.
We set up five telemedicine centers at Chikhik and Phadalewadi from Ambegaon Taluka (Pune district) and Dhamner, Kanherkhed and Nhavi Budruk from Koregaon Taluka (Satara district). This helped in making healthcare accessible to grassroot level in rural and isolated communities, benefiting people with limited mobility, time or transportation options.
beneficiaries
We empowered and strengthened PHCs by renovating existing building, i.e. waterproofing of roof, protective walls, and by fixing paver blocks for cleanliness of the campus.
We have partnered with four Industrial Training Institutes (ITI) to run vocational skill development programs for underprivileged youths. Over 3,000 students have benefited from it.
We arranged for providing training to 20 farmers from connected villages on entrepreneurship skill training for milk-making products with NGO Partner Agriculture Development Baramati. They also visited Krushak exhibition to see the various product stall displayed and learnt new techniques on crop and silk production.
We have collaborated with Vidya Pratishthan to set up various laboratories including Computer Vision Lab, Data Analytics Lab, IoT Lab, Robotics Lab, EV Lab, VLSI facility and Incubation Center. This will act as a CoE to impart training on emerging technology skills to youths especially girl students to benefit them in getting employment or becoming entrepreneur.
We are supporting and mentoring sporting talents from across the country. We also undertake employee volunteerism whereby initiatives around tree plantation, giving donation, waste management and health and education knowledge awareness have been undertaken.
Received Second runner-up award under category of ‘Agriculture & Rural Development’ which was given by Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Hon’ble Governor of Maharashtra in presence of Shri Nitin Gadkari, Hon’ble Union Cabinet Minister of Road, Transport and Highways, and other eminent government officials.
Winner of ‘The Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture (MCCIA) Annual Awards 2020’, for excellence in CSR. Award was given by Mr. Amol Nagar, MD – GE India Industrial and Mr. Girish Wagh, Executive Director - Tata Motors.
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