Reliance Energy wins Golden Peacock award

Mumbai: Reliance Energy's Dahanu Thermal Power Station has won the Golden Peacock award for corporate social responsibility for the year 2007. European Union President and Prime Minister of Portugal, Mr Jose Socrates, will be presenting the award on February 15 at the third Global Conference on Social Responsibility in Vilamoura, Portugal. Reliance Power's 500-MW coalfired Dahanu Thermal Power Station near Mumbai won the award for initiatives such as ground water recharging, building dams for irrigation, installation of hand pumps and making bore wells and drinking water facilities. The company had undertaken education initiatives for students; health initiatives like cleft lip operation camp and cervical cancer detection; infrastructure development initiatives like lighting the streets and sea beach beautification, said a release from the company. - Our Bureau