Indus Towers, TERI to light Rural India

Indus Towers has announced that it would provide high efficiency Solar LED Lighting Systems, to rural areas. 

Pankaj Mittal, Chief Human Resources Officer, Indus Towers said, "As a responsible corporate citizen, Indus Towers has always tried to strike a balance between the corporate gains and social upliftment. Our commitment to good governance, ethical conduct and social responsibility is core to our way of doing business, and is strongly aligned with our drive to create and increase value for all stakeholders. This initiative will help the villagers of the District of Kanpur -Dehat, Uttar Pradesh, by making their lives better and also teach them the power of alternate sources of energy. Indus Towers will continue to introduce similar innovative initiatives in future as well."

BS Shantharaju, CEO, Indus Towers said, "One of Indus' core Values is Environment. We are committed to our values framework and have already reduced usage of 62 million litres of diesel in the last 2 years and our endeavor will be to reduce it further every year. We will take this campaign to as many cities as possible and recreate the image of our country as a 'Green Nation'. We, as a company, are dedicated to an eco- friendly India'.

The 5 year partnership of Indus Towers and TERI would sponsor clean energy and rural entrepreneurship through the Lighting a Billion Lives Program (LaBL) to over 165,000 people across 660 villages in India.