By Sekhar Seshan. Consulting Editor, Business India

Giving back to society means a lot to the Indore-based Mittal Appliances Ltd, says the Mittal group’s marketing director Ankit D. Mittal: “As a business, we make a conscious effort to closely monitor our initiatives for society too.”

Among the activities it carries out are developing schools in tribal areas, plantation drives, skill development for the less privileged and educational support for needy students. The company, which manufactures coin blanks and even coins for a gamut of government mints from India to Canada, initiated a number of such community services, including health camps and aid distribution for the physically challenged in 2015. As an ongoing effort, it continues to “put little green dots in the environment” with its plantation activities.

This work on benefitting the society to which it belongs has continued over the years, with the group celebrating its founder Babulal Mittal’s birth centenary in 2016. “We believed that the most befitting way to celebrate the year would be by adding a new dimension to our social commitment – we adopted 100 Ekal Schools (the Vidyalaya Foundation’s one-teacher schools in remote tribal areas),” Ankit Mittal says. “We believe that education can bring about the biggest and the sustainable transformation in any society.”

It also organised a community-based disability check-up and rehabilitation camp in memory of his wife Manakbai to provide various services to people with any disability or handicap. The free check-up and diagnostics for polio and other disabilities were followed by the donation of the proper required aid or instrument to cope with the disability.