Chennai
Port Authority signed the Memorandum of Understanding with its CSR partners and
handed over the Cheques to them for the
CSR projects to be implemented for the Financial year 2023-24.
Chennai Port Authority
earned a net surplus of Rs.156.06 crores for the Financial Year 2022-23 and as
per the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways an
amount of Rs.3.12 Crores was allocated for CSR activities of Chennai Port,
focused towards the development and benefits of the Local community.
The details of
beneficiaries and CSR projects are detailed below :-
Sl No |
Name of the beneficiary |
Project details |
Amount allocated in Rs. |
1 |
Greater Chennai Corporation |
Welfare Schemes in North
Chennai under “Namakku Naame Thittam”
of Government of Tamil Nadu. |
66,00,000/- |
2 |
Madras Medical College |
Upgrading of Lecture Halls,
Auditorium with air-conditioning and
acoustic facilities |
99,77,600/- |
3 |
PENN (Protection and
Empowerment of Naari Trust) Trust |
Imparting Self Defence
Training for Women and Psychological Strength for Students for 1000
participants in each. |
9,00,000/- |
4 |
Rotary Club of Chennai
Towers Charitable Trust |
Providing Smart Vision Devices
including AI and Machine Vision to 100 visually impaired persons |
31,50,000/- |
5 |
BumbleB Trust |
“Digital Class Room
Atmosphere” (50 Nos.) at Govt. Primary & Middle Schools of Chennai
District |
15,94,450/- |
6 |
Vivekananda Cultural Centre
(A unit of Sri Ramakrishna Math) |
To develop New Lab for
running Vocational Courses and to procure 25 Computers |
7,37,950/- |
7 |
Swarlipi Charitable Trust |
TB Prevention Detection
Management Program |
20,00,000/- |
Shri
Sunil Paliwal, IAS, Chairperson, Chennai Port Authority, Shri S. Viswanathan,
Deputy Chairperson, HODs and other senior Port officials were present on the
occasion.