New Delhi 14 January 2011

Press Release

Project ARPAN: BSES reaches out to the underprivileged, donates over 3000 woolens & blankets

• Senior BSES management distributes over 3000 woolens and blankets among the poor

• BRPL and BYPL partner with Gramin Utthaan Bharat Nirman and Aashray Adhikar Abhiyan to distribute woolens and blankets in Delhi Cantt and Walled City respectively

• Under Project Abhiyan, BSES employees voluntarily donate clothes

Reaching out to the society at large and not just distributing electricity is one-of-the intrinsic principles that define the ethos of BSES. This philosophy has seen BSES launch series of initiatives for the under-privileged. Project ARPAN, now its 4^th year, is one such initiative, under which BSES employees voluntarily donate clothes and woolens for the under-privileged.

On the auspicious occasion of Makarsakranti, senior BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) and BSES Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL) officials distributed hundreds of articles of clothing among the poor and the under-privileged. BRPL partnered with Gramin Utthaan Bharat Nirman –a NGO working for the under-privileged and the needy, while BYPL partnered with Aashray Adhikar Abhiyan, a NGO that runs night shelters in Delhi.

In BRPL’ function organized near Kranti Chowk Sadar Bazar, Delhi Cantt, BRPL’ senior management led by CEO Mr Gopal Saxena and accompanied by Mr J P Aggarwal, Hon’ble Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) and officials of ‘Gramin Utthaan Bharat Nirman’ distributed over 2000 articles of warm clothing and blankets amongst the under privileged and the needy families in the slum-clusters in the area.

Appreciating BSES’ ARPAN initiative, Mr J P Aggarwal said, “Efforts like these, albeit small, will collectively go a long way in helping the needy and the poor. It is encouraging seeing staff of organizations coming forward to doing their bit for the society”

Speaking on the occasion BRPL CEO Mr Gopal Saxena said, “We believe the community is an integral part of the business environment and the interest of one cannot be mutually exclusive from that of the other”

In another function, officials from BYPL and Aashray Adhikar Abhiyan, an organisation associated with Action Aid that runs night shelters in the city for the Delhi Government, distributed hundreds of articles of warm clothing and blankets amongst the under privileged living in the Walled City area today.

“To ensure that really needy of the residents are not left out, BSES officials, along with the officials of the two NGOs, identified the poorest of the residents. The aim was to try ensure that each of households gets at least one article of clothing”, said a BSES official.

According to a BSES spokesperson, “Conceived in December 2008, Project ARPAN envisages motivating employees and their families to donate clothes and woolens for the less fortunate. For the past few years, a one month warm clothes donation drive is undertaken mid December- January at all the BSES offices. The collected clothes are then distributed through an NGO to the needy.

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