The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or Global Goals are a set of 17 interlinked global goals designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all". The SDGs were set up in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly and are intended to be achieved by 2030. The SDGs define global priorities and aspirations for 2030, with objectives to achieve conservation, ecological balance and equality.
The following is a list of our initiatives that demonstrate Shangai Supply’s alignment with the SDGs and our commitment towards climate change mitigation, environmental conservation and corporate social responsibility.
- Skilling programmes for youth and migrant labour enables higher wage earning capacity
- Vocational, life-skills training and job placements for skilled youth, women and differently abled
- Encouraging entrepreneurship among youth, women and differently abled through training and promoting Self help groups (SHG)
- Increased agricultural income and multi-cropping due to water adequacy
- Created agro-based livelihood, increasing household incomes
- Formation of farmer groups and market linkages for better crop prices
- Training communities in better nutrition practices
- Promoting families to grow and use vegetables from kitchen gardens and revival of traditional foods including millets
- Encouraging sustainable agricultural practices by use of zero budget natural farming, drip irrigation, indigenous pesticides, seed treatment, balanced dose of fertilisers, discouraging plantation of water-intensive crops, and introducing horticulture through farm field schools and demonstrations
- Nutrition awareness campaign and counselling for women, pre-school teachers and school children from the community
- Addressing malnutrition among children by providing services related to Prevention, education to mothers, early detection and treatment in ICDP areas
- Daily distribution of multi-vitamins/milk at Anganwadis/schools
- Livestock management and training in dairy and poultry business
- Provide food and ration in disasters and crisis situations
- Multi-specialty community health centres providing access to maternal, family welfare, paediatric and general healthcare
- Health centres offering mental health services, child guidance clinic and counselling
- Mobile health vans and camps for school children, women and elderly from underprivileged communities
- Health awareness for adolescents
- Care and counselling programmes for differently-abled children
- Blood donation camps
- Training of frontline healthcare workers
- Infrastructure support to Anganwadis, PHCs and hospitals
- Integration with national health programs
- Health infrastructure strengthening during COVID-19
- Welfare teams at the workplace
- School infrastructure development for creating conducive learning environment, including construction of school sanitation facilities
- Making schools accessible by providing bicycles for students staying in remote tribal areas
- Technology enabled education (e-learning facilities) in Government schools
- Miniature science centres and laboratories to develop interest in scientific subjects
- Introducing and strengthening STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Education programme in Government schools to unlock scientific and technological potential of children and encourage their curiosity, scientific vigour and creativity
- Teacher training programme to impart effective pedagogy
- Enhancing curriculum and impacting classroom learning through nurturing talent
- Promoting girl child education
- Life skills and extra-curricular activities for overall development of students
- Community-based learning centres with parent involvement to prevent dropouts and prepare children for board exams
- Specific interventions to integrate children at risk of dropping out and out of school children into school
- Prepare indigenous students for admission to various public schools
- Mitigating digital divide by either providing the gadgets to the underprivileged children or visiting students at their homes to provide study material in print form
- Making water available to doorstep and drudgery reduction activities
- Awareness on women’s health and menstrual hygiene
- Toilet facilities in schools for girls
- Motivate parents to encourage girls to participate in STEM activities and exposure visits
- Creating livelihood opportunities and encouraging entrepreneurship
- among women through skill development, vocational training programs and market linkages
- Formation of women’s Self-help Groups (SHGs), ensuring participation and decision making in development and school management committees across villages
- Increasing women employees in the organisation
- Achieving water adequacy for drinking, sanitation and agriculture through watershed projects, as part of Integrated Community Development (ICD) programmes
- Supplementing water bodies to increase ground water level with participation from communities
- Constructing water harvesting structures with contribution from the community and ensuring their maintenance
- Developing community-based groups like Village Development Committees, Farmers groups for maintaining the water structures, judicial use of common water resources and ensuring the villages remain open defecation free
- Demonstration of rainwater harvesting system in schools and households
- Training farmer groups in water estimation and budgeting, and to measure water levels and in GIS based water management
- Sanitation awareness campaigns followed with construction of Household toilets and school toilets, to make rural India ‘open defecation-free’
- Supporting Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
- Providing solar lamps to the underprivileged communities and off-grid solar system with back-up for communities and schools
- Increasing renewable energy use within campuses and project sites
- Green products and services portfolio for customers
- Demonstration of Solar Agricultural Fences in villages
- Demonstration of Bio-Gas Plants
- Employable skill training and placements for youth from underprivileged communities, physically and mentally challenged persons
- Construction Skills Training Institutes for skilling youth
- Transform fresh ITI candidates to multi-skilled workers
- Skilling youth through training institutes
- Certified computer courses for students
- Television and digital media workshops for youth empowerment
- Empowering workforce through learning, development and welfare initiatives
- Training rural youth in ethno-veterinary care and Natural Resource Management
- Embolden automation with focus on application for patents/Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) to inspire innovation
- Resilient infrastructure creation and sustainable industrialisation for our clients, through our offerings – green products and service portfolio
- Focus on ‘Make in India’ initiatives to create employment opportunities and import substitution
- Merit-based hiring with emphasis on equal opportunities
- Established policies to empower employees irrespective of gender, age, disability, race and religion
- Encouraging participation of vulnerable groups like women and the deprived, in rural development committees of developmental projects supported
- Fairness in distribution of resources within villages under ICDP to circulate the benefit to the most needy and vulnerable in the community
- Prioritise needs of marginal and poor farmers in rural development programs
- Create comprehensive and smart technology solutions for critical infrastructure, spanning airports, power plants, metro rails and IT parks
- Offer specialised turnkey GIS-based network management solutions for city surveillance, traffic monitoring and analysis
- Road barriers and guards to control traffic areas at project sites, especially busy junctions in the city, along with road safety awareness campaigns
- Garden maintenance in cities and flood relief interventions
- ICD program for water-stressed rural settlements
- Implement material conservation initiatives, energy efficiency advancement projects and sustainable production practices
- Our cumulative energy conservation over the years is more than 128 Mn KWH.
- We proactively utilise Fly Ash, Granular Blast Furnace Slag and Crushed sand in our construction projects and recycled steel and zinc wherever permissible.
- Discouraging plantation of water-intensive crops, use of indigenous pesticides, seed treatment, balanced dose of fertilisers
- Multi cropping among farmers on increase
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation initiatives: GHG intensity reduction projects, promoting the use of renewable energy, green buildings and tree plantation
- Measurable targets for reducing energy and carbon intensity
- Carbon footprint mapping at the organisational level
- Discourage overexploitation of ground water
- Alignment with National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC), Government of India
- Evaluate business process risk to ensure that negative impacts are avoided/minimised/controlled
- Building soil conservation to prevent soil erosion in the ICD programme
- Village level committee to regulate the use of common resources
- Rainwater harvesting in schools and Households
- Lake clean-up and reserve forest clean-up drives alongside de-silting of water bodies
- Planted 800,000+ saplings in FY21 and many fully-grown trees are nurtured across major campuses
- Sustaining Miyawaki forest in 6 Locations with 65,000+ saplings
- In-house guidelines on scientific tree plantation and maintenance
- Felicitation of guests with a Tree Certificate, instead of a floral bouquet
- Optimising the use of natural resources
- Aforestation by creating fast growing sustainable forest
- Village level committee and democratic process formulated for maintenance, usage and monitoring the sustainability of ICDP interventions
- Encourage democratic functioning and financial transparency in conduct of SHG business
- Associating with industry forums like
- Confederation of Indian Industry – Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development (CII-CESD)
- CII – Green Business Centre (GBC) and Government bodies for promoting sustainable development
