Page 5 - Annual Report

Chairman’s

message

Over the years, the Trusts have endeavoured to be Rajasthan and Gujarat. Through a focused during a difficult year. The Trusts will continue
instruments of change – changing lives of programme implemented across 6 states, the efforts with sustained vigour to provide relief from
disadvantaged communities across the country. But Trusts helped thousands of migrant workers who the pandemic, whilst also focusing on other
then, a once-in-a-lifetime globally prevailing event were suddenly left jobless, along with their families. developmental challenges facing our country.
constrains efforts and threatens to change the very In order to augment the availability of trained The efforts to bring smiles on millions of faces
existence and the way people live. The continuing medical resources, 9,800 medical professionals will continue.
prevalence of the Covid-19 pandemic, for the comprising 3,700 doctors, 5,000 nurses and 1,100
second year running, is severely testing the world; paramedics were trained on Covid protocols.
more so developing countries such as India. While the pandemic understandably dented efforts
The year under review witnessed the Trusts working and stretched resources of the teams, programmes
with various government bodies and like-minded in other priority areas continued, albeit at a slower
partner institutions to help alleviate the sufferings pace. Mobile Medical Units were launched to offer
brought about by a relentless Covid. Even as the free check-ups for various cancers and other
pandemic first broke out in March 2020, the Trusts’ non-communicable diseases. Partnerships were
teams worked at speed, amidst stringent forged to advance the status of women and
lockdowns, distributing supplies of Personnel children impacted by the pandemic. The Trusts’
Protection Equipment to equip frontline workers programmes in Education, Menstrual Hygiene
across the country. Immediately thereafter, the Management, Nutrition and Health were
Trusts began an India-wide community outreach re-imagined to overcome constraints posed by the Ratan N. Tata
programme to encourage adoption of good pandemic. These are just some of the punctuation
practices in rural areas to check the spread of Covid. marks in a year-long statement of efforts that
Over 12 million people across 21 states were covered focused on enhancing livelihoods of marginalised
through videos and audio messages, produced farmers, ensuring education of rural children,
in-house in various languages and even remote development of water resources and sanitation
dialects. Notably, the Trusts partnered with several facilities in villages, and provisions of fortified
state governments in augmenting healthcare nutrition in various needy blocks, besides others.
infrastructure and set up Covid care facilities with a I would like to compliment the teams at Tata Trusts,
combined capacity of over 950 beds at 7 brownfield who unhesitatingly answered the call of duty and
facilities across Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, performed a stellar role while on the frontlines,