In recent years, the world has survived numerous disaster incidents with widespread effects for years and generations to come. In India alone, we have seen increased frequency in incidents of wildfires, floods, drought, cyclone, and heat waves affecting general course of living. Efforts are now being made at national as well as local levels to be prepared to respond to such situations with an aim to minimize the human, economic and environmental losses.
At Tata group, we have a legacy of responding to disaster situations aimed at supporting affected communities post disaster in relief, response, and rehabilitation phases. Our response is focused on ‘Build Back Better’ ensuring the affected families are rehabilitated with decent livelihoods. We have developed the Disaster Response Framework which considers different aspects of support needed and the skills, capacities and expertise available across companies and employees.
Following the group Disaster Response guidelines, Tata Projects Limited is dedicated towards enhancing the capacities of its employees to be equipped for the roles of Core Volunteers, Project Managers and Procurement Officers to work with the affected community.
TPL is also the lead technical company for the region of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana where it contributes its resources and technical expertise in the disaster rescue and relief phase. To enable well-coordinated response, we conduct State Disaster Response Meetings ensuring participation from group companies and relevant government and non-government stakeholders. These meetings help to understand strengths of different entities and plan the response accordingly in case of need.