Tata Steel’s Green School Project Marks Its Presence During Pandemic

Mumbai: Tata Steel, under its flagship Green School Project, reached out to more than 7,300 students and teachers in the last eight months. It took up activities like spreading awareness about the climate change and importance of sustainable development model.

To address the challenges posed by the pandemic in reaching out to the school community, Tata Steel used the web platforms, mobile applications and social media to continue the programme and connect with green crusaders. The online initiatives involved virtual seminars and hands-on training workshops, digital competitions, self-learning series in the form of audio-video learning capsules, and more.

‘The Green School Project’, a joint initiative of Tata Steel and TERI, involves the school fraternity to bring about a change using climate literacy as an effective tool. The project is being implemented in various schools at the grassroots level in operational areas of Tata Steel in Jharkhand and Odisha and has touched the lives of more than 1.5 lakhs students, teachers and community members since its inception.

Pankaj Satija, Chief Regulatory Affairs, Tata Steel, said: “People form the core of bringing about transformative change needed to create an equitable and green future for coming generations.”

Students and teachers took up homebound ‘Community Impact Projects’ like making paper bags, wealth out of waste, installing bird nests and bird feeders, etc. to bring about the change in the society. 20 project schools across Noamundi, Joda, Jajpur, Jharia and West Bokaro and 6 project schools of Angul along with 36 schools across 6 panchayats implemented these community impact projects.