SPECTRUMPNG Jewellers Celebrates World Environment Day
Legacy jewellery brand PNG Jewellers celebrated theWorld
Environment Day at their adopted village of Shillim
in Pune’s Mawal taluka as a part of their Corporate
Social Responsibility initiative. This year, they held
three programmes that had the participation of over
30 employees from PNG Jewellers alongside 500 local
villagers. The aim was to not only improve the quality of
life of the villagers but to also sensitise PNG employees
towards larger socially relevant issues.
The first programme was a tree plantation drive at
Shillim, Ajiwali and Kottamwadi villages, where 1,000 tree
saplings such as bamboo and sagwan (teak) were planted.
The idea behind this was to beautify the surroundings, but
more importantly, provide a means of secondary income
to the village as well as tribal people, who can make and
sell useful and decorative products made from the wood
sourced from these trees. Farmers received education
on the Saguna Rice Technique (SRT) of rice cultivation
and were provided with tools to execute the same. This
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technique will help improve yield while reducing the
intensity of labour required. Lastly, keeping in mind that
the theme of World Environment Day 2018 is ‘Beat Plastic
Pollution’, a cleanliness drive was conducted throughout
the village.
PNG initiated the adoption process in 2016 for the
betterment of the lives of the villagers. Over the past
two years, PNG Jewellers has conducted successful
programmes here in the fields of education, health and
sanitation, women empowerment, vocational training
and farming. “Working alongside the residents of
Shillim village has been a humbling, enriching and eye-
opening experience. PNG Jewellers have been blessed
with prosperity and we wish to acknowledge this good
fortune by spreading goodwill to those less privileged.
The response we have received from the locals has been
very encouraging and we hope to leave a lasting positive
impact on their lives,” said Saurabh Gadgil, chairman and
managing director, PNG Jewellers, on the occasion. A local villager participating in the tree plantation drive.
Dam inauguration and handover to villagers by lady Sarpanch
Rasika Ghogre - 1st tribal Sarpanch.
Anil Waghmare inaugurating the mushroom cultivation
shed in Kottamwadi.PNG Jewellers’ employees demonstrating the SRT
technique of rice cultivation to farmers in Shillim.