ESG India Leadership Award
Leadership in Community support & Development
Gujarat Pipavav Port Limited
Leadership in community support and development award is presented to Gujarat Pipavav Port Limited in recognition of their excellent practices in community engagement and their overall economic and social development. The company has spent the entire Rs. 67.30 Million allocated to CSR activities on projects that have affected more than 200 villages. It engages in providing educational equipment, teaching, upgrading school infrastructure, providing medical assistance to the surrounding villages, entrepreneurship training, financial inclusion, and socioeconomic development
Mr. Jakob Friis Sorensen
Managing Director
“APM Terminals Pipavav [GPPL] is delighted to receive the Leader – Community support & development award from ESG Risk AI. APM Terminals Pipavav [GPPL] is committed to the local communities around the port and actively works towards improving their livelihoods. All our CSR initiatives are aligned towards our vision of ‘Uplifting Communities Around Us’. The five major pillars around which our sustainable CSR initiatives revolve are Health & Safety, Environment, Women Empowerment, Education & Skill Development, Socio Economic Development and Disaster & Relief Management.
Our CSR initiatives are spread over 150 villages of Amreli District in one or the other pillar as mentioned above through strategic partnership with Government and Non-Government agencies, school linkages and active community participation. We are proud of our strategic capacity building team on the field that has a research-based approach to CSR and hence effectively lead to improvement in livelihoods of surrounding communities.”
