Tuesday, June 28, 2016

BWI: Toyota Kirloskar Motor Takes Lead in Ensuring 100% Sanitation in Schools and Villages in Karnataka

 
Source : Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Limited
Tuesday, June 28, 2016 7:35PM IST (2:05PM GMT)
 
Toyota Kirloskar Motor Takes Lead in Ensuring 100% Sanitation in Schools and Villages in Karnataka
 
Bangalore, Karnataka, India

  • Creates awareness among 76000+ villagers to promote healthy sanitation practices
  • Targets women population, to raise awareness on the need to construct individual household toilets
  • School missing hours of girl children drops to zero
  • 18600 children were trained on Hygienic Sanitation Practices

Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) in continuance of its active efforts towards ensuring ‘Swacch Bharat’ has conceptualized and implemented a unique CSR initiative - Project ABCD aimed at curbing one of the grave concerns faced by our country – Open Defecation. This comprehensive project which was rolled out last year has reached out to 102 schools in 88 villages in Magadi, Kanakapura and Ramanagara. TKM has targeted 40 villages to become open defecation free in Karnataka and has been already successful in ensuring 100% sanitation in 14 villages within a year.
 
In the wake of the growing concerns around insufficient sanitation facilities in government schools and lack of adequate toilet training among school children, Recognizing the need for a new approach, TKM initiated the ABCD project with a focus on bringing in a behavioral change, The Project ABCD (A Behavioral Change Demonstration) not only aims at achieving 100% school sanitation by increasing awareness, it also promoters dignity and privacy for the girl child by upgrading existing unhygienic school toilets to usable condition as well as to promote learning and retention among school children, teachers as well as the community members.
 
According to recent Unicef Reports, open defecation is rampant in India. Around 595 million people, which is nearly half the population of India, defecate in open. This practice poses serious threat to the health of villagers in India like diarrhea and worm infections, India reports the highest number of deaths due to diarrhea in children under five in the world. TKM aims at enhancing school sanitation and ensuring sustainable hygienic condition in toilets with the ABCD project. Open defecation exposes women to the danger of physical attacks, snake bites and cripples the life expectancy. The ABCD project identified the lacunae that exists in the sanitation facilities in rural Karnataka and is trying to bridge the gap with a widespread awareness drive. As per the school teachers ABCD has tremendously contributed in reduction of school hour missing cases (earlier condition- adult girl children used to go to their home for toilet usage and miss the classes ( 1-2 hours). Currently, owing to the TKM’s girl child sanitation initiatives and ABCD project implementation school missing hours have reduced to zero.
 

KEY HIGHLIGHTS OF ABCD PROJECT:
 
  • 18600 children were trained on Hygienic Sanitation Practices
  • Created awareness among 76000+ villagers through meetings, door to door visits and video shows on sanitation.
  • Created demand for toilet at home- Child to Parent approach
  • 1366 new individual household toilets were constructed, as a result of the behavioral change program.
  • 14 villages have become 100% sanitation village through TKM intervention
  • Rated the schools from No star to 3-star approach and 80% schools reached 3-star level. School star rating is based on their continuous behavioral change and improvement observed in the school.
  • Schools that maintained the best toilets were awarded 
 
The project has already been benchmarked by UNICEF and the Education Department for its commendable contribution in raising awareness on this grave issue.
 
Speaking on the unique initiative Mr. Naveen Soni, Vice President, Toyota Kirloskar Motor said, “Open defecation is a serious social challenge in India. Every year 200,000 children in India die from diseases caused by fecal contamination. These numbers are disturbing and we as a responsible corporate citizen, we have been consistently working towards contributing to the Swacch Bharat Abhiyan initiated by Prime Minister Modi. With Project ABCD we not only believe in creating sanitation facilities, but we are going one step ahead in ensuring effective utilization of the facilities. The project aims at educating and motivating the villagers including children, parents and school teachers on the basics of toilet hygiene and the importance of sanitation. ABCD program has been benchmarked by all DDPI of Karnataka and we hope the learnings will be taken forward by the government. We will also share the success story of ABCD to concerned government department to take it forward.”
 
TKM has constructed 500 units of sanitation facilities of which 125 units are located in Varanasi, 250 units in Ramnagara district in Karnataka and 125 units in Vaishali in Bihar. Additionally, 176 toilet units were constructed in Chennapattana taluk in Karnataka.
 
Overview of TKM
 
Company name Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Limited
Equity participation TMC: 89%, Kirloskar Group: 11%
Number of employees Approx. 7, 000 +
Land area Approx. 432 acres (approx.1,700,000 m2)
Building area 74,000 m2
Total Installed Production capacity Upto 3,10,000 units

Overview of TKM 1st Plant
 
Established October 1997 (start of production: December 1999)
Location Bidadi
Products Innova, Fortuner manufactured in India.
Prado, Land Cruiser and Prius imported as CBUs.
Installed Production capacity Upto 1,00,000 units
 
Overview of TKM 2nd Plant
 
Start of Production December 2010
Location On the site of Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Limited, Bidadi
Products Corolla Altis, Etios, EtiosLiva, Etios Cross, Camry & Camry Hybrid
Installed Production capacity Upto 2,10,000 units

 
Media Contact Details

Priyanka Bhattacharya, Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Limited, ,+91-9880767778 , priyanka_bhattacharya@toyota-kirloskar.co.in

Kaveri Mandanna, Creation, ,+91-9008959697 , kaveri.mandanna@creation.io

 

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