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INDUS
NEWS
Indus Towers Limited | Vol 18 | March 2018
REGIONAL HIGHLIGHTS | IN FOCUS | CSR
Sporting Fun
Deepens Customer Tie
INDUS NEWS | March 2018 1
INDUS
NEWS
Vol 18 | March 2018
IN THIS ISSUE
Dear Friends,
At Indus Towers, it is our ongoing quest to transform lives by enabling
communication. We believe that the only way to achieve this is through
collaboration with our customers. As customer centricity is the cornerstone
of our ethos, our partnership with our customers is a most valued one for
us. In the past few months, Indus organised a multitude of sporting events,
film screenings and informal programmes to participate along with our
customers and their families. The sporting events were hard fought and
1 From Bimal’s Desk
thrilling – but more important than who won or lost – was the deepening of
ties and the opportunity to know our customer better.
COVER STORy 2 Sporting Fun Deepens Customer Ties
In keeping with our endeavour to uphold our commitment to use
technology innovatively, our Karnataka Circle has successfully employed
REGIONAL HIGHLIGHTS 6 Karnataka : Innovative Technology Safeguards Equipment From Bimal’s Desk GPRS tracking to help safeguard tower equipment against theft. This has
6 Kerala : Indus Connects Remote Hilltop Town
helped reduce the number of theft cases significantly – and we are looking
7 Maharashtra & Goa : Indus Builds Site at Critical Location MARCH 201 8
to replicate it at various other sites.
8 Rajasthan : One Team One Goal
8 Andhra Pradesh : Indus Supports JV Customers Via Project CoRe
Indus remains at the forefront of connecting an inclusive India by building
towers in places that are challenging and critical. Some recent examples of
this have been seen in the Kerala, Rajasthan and Maharashtra & Goa circles,
9 IIMPACT
wherein the perseverance, teamwork and collaboration between Indus, our
csr 9 New Leadership
partners, the local authorities and the residents helped yield impressive
results.
10 Recognition
IN FOCUS 11 Partners’ Meet: Indus Awards Partners for Exceptional Performance
It gives me great pleasure to share that Indus Towers received a much
14 Partner Profile: Valmont Industries
coveted award from FICCI for Safety in practices, a Telecom Excellence
award from Amity for being a ‘Top Infra Innovator’ and a ‘Best CSR
Practices’ award from ET NOW in their CSR Leadership Awards. These
awards are further recognition of the untiring efforts by Team Indus, in
Putting India First.
As always, I do hope this edition of Indus News is of interest to you – and I
invite you to share your thoughts and feedback with us.
Warm regards,
Bimal Dayal
Chief Executive Officer
Indus Towers Limited
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cover story
Sporting Fun Deepens Customer Ties Cricket, Movies & More
At Indus, we believe that our partnerships
are at the heart of everything we do. Indus - JIO Cricket Match
And our partnership with our customers is an especially Indus organized a friendly cricket match between the Indus and Jio teams in
significant one. To deepen these ties, a host of sporting November. It was a gripping contest wherein Indus chased the total set by Jio
with great gusto but at the end, Jio won the match.
events and family programmes were organized by Indus
Towers. Providing an opportunity to get to know our
customers not just in the field of telecom, but also on Indus - Airtel CORPORATE Cricket Match
the cricket field or the running track.
A friendly cricket match was played by Indus and Airtel at the TERI grounds in
Gurugram on 20th January 2018. Both teams were enthusiastic, energetic and
played a professional 20 overs in a period of 3 hours. The healthy competition
Indus Vs Cricket Match was palpable and ended with an address from the captain of Airtel’s cricket
team.
In UP (West), a friendly cricket match
was organized with all our JV customers
- Airtel, Idea and Vodafone - as part of
the Indus Customer Cricket League. All
the four teams - Airtel Bahubalis, Idea
Lions, Vodafone Rockers and Indus
Tigers - were thrilled to be a part of
this exciting game. Indus’ initiative
was applauded by Pawan Badika-CTO
Idea, Gurmail Guleria-Airtel O&M Head
UPW, Naman Abrol-Operations Lead,
Vodafone and Vikas Gupta-Planning
Head, Idea. Cricket match by Indus and Airtel
Corporate
“Congratulations Team Indus…you were
the best.
Thanks for bringing this together,
everyone enjoyed the event…”
“Simply Outstanding…Efforts put-in by each one of us and
especially from Indus team is really appreciable”
Pawan Badika - CTO Idea “Live every moment” is something which we enjoyed during
the day. ‘Friendship series 2018’
wall of Appreciation Vikas Gupta - Planning Head Idea
Andhra Pradesh Cricket Match 2018
“Thanks Team Indus, For arranging such an awesome cricket Indus’ AP circle played a cricket match as part of the
league and get together. Was an unforgettable event with “It was a really good event!! ‘Friendship Series 2018’, with all our customers - Airtel,
lots of fun, activities and of course the challenging matches Airtel Team enjoyed a lot with other Idea, Vodafone, RJio AP and RJio Telengana. All the
between the Teams.” OpCO” CTOs attended the event and the Friendship Series was a
resounding success.
Gurmail Guleria -
Naman Abrol - Operations Lead Vodafone Airtel O&M Head(UPW)
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cover story
Rajasthan Cricket Match 2018 Punjab & Haryana –
Cricket-a-thon FY17-18 was organized at
Film Screening
the Rajasthan Circle between Vodafone, The P&H Circle organised a film event
Idea, Jio, Airtel and Indus on 6th January on 22nd Dec, where all customers
2018. We started the day with a kick-off with their families were invited for
where CTOs and leads of all OPCOs and a screening of Tiger Zinda Hai. The
Indus flagged off balloons to mark the event was attended by the CTO and
commencement of the event. It was a fun CEO of Airtel RJio and Idea. We
filled Saturday with back-to-back cricket had a participation of over 400 key
matches between teams. The match stakeholders and their families.
schedule was decided through lottery.
RJio stood victorious in the event by
winning 3 matches. However, winning or
losing was immaterial as everyone had All customers with their families for “Tiger Zinda
a great time – be it networking, cricket, Hai”, P&H Circle
kite-flying or partaking of refreshments.
The matches were interspersed with a
flash mob performance to Bollywood
numbers to engage all teams and
members. We finally concluded the
event with a closing ceremony where all
participants were recognized for their
contribution in making the event a grand
success.
Maharashtra & Goa – customer appreciation
Film Screening & Marathon
The M&G circle also invited their “Was an amazing experience, I enjoyed
customers along with their families with my family and heartening to see
to watch a screening of Tiger Zinda that entire theater was booked for the
Hai. The entire theatre was booked for customer”
Indus’ customers – and this was greatly Movie –Tiger Zinda Hai
appreciated by P. Madhu - CFO, Idea P Madhu, CFO, Idea Cellular
Cellular.
In Pune, Indus took part in the 32nd “Indus always promote good culture
International Marathon along with through employee & customer wellbeing.
our customers Vodafone, Idea, Aircel Good Job Indus”
and Telenor. This initiative of Indus
was appreciated by Nitin Ranka - CFO Pune 32 International marathon Nitin Ranka - CFO Vodafone (R)
Vodafone. Similarly, Indus’ efforts were with customer Vodafone, Idea,
applauded by Sachin Bagade - Head Aircel & Telenor
Project, Aircel.
“Unique experience, thanks for inviting us”
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Sachin Bagade - Head Project, Aircel
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Regional highlights karnataka & kerala Regional highlights maharashtra & goa
Innovative Technology Indus Builds Site at
Safeguards Equipment Critical Location
Indus has deployed innovative tracking and management technologies across its
Customer centricity is an integral part of Indus’ DNA. Our M&G Circle
mobile tower sites to improve the mobile connectivity in Karnataka. In recent times,
has been appreciated by RJio for deploying a New Built site at a
there have been issues of theft of telecom equipment at the sites. In response,
critical location in Gokul Nagri.
Indus has taken some stringent measures to safeguard the equipment by deploying
innovative GPRS tracking to track miscreants from theft cases at mobile tower sites.
Umesh Durve - CEO RJio (Pune) inaugurated the New Built site in
Gorakhpur in December 2017. This was a proud moment for Indus as
In a recent case, battery banks that had been stolen from a tower site in Jigani, were
the M&G Circle managed to build a new site for RJio at a challenging
being transported by the culprits, to be sold to a scrap vendor. Since the batteries
location, after performing surveys with the customers and field teams.
were equipped with a GPRS enabled tracker, it helped to track the exact location of
the stolen battery banks - and the attempted theft was foiled by the security agencies
RJio’s CEO appreciated Indus’ initiative and emphasized the ‘out of
and police authorities.
the way’ approach taken by Indus to bring closure to RJio’s long
Innovative GPRS tracking technology pending sites.
Indus Towers has decided to deploy more such technologies at all the sites to reduce is used to reduce and track miscreants
from theft cases at mobile tower sites.
the cases of theft. Regions like Bangalore (Urban & Rural), Ramnagra, Bidar, Bijapur
The RJio team also inspected the hygiene and safety of the site and
and Mandya have reported several cases of telecom equipment theft. Together with
appreciated Indus for the site structure and infrastructure availability.
the Police authorities, Indus is working to curb such instances with the innovative use
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of technology.
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Indus Connects
Remote Hilltop Town
As the country’s largest telecom
infrastructure company, Indus recently
reinforced its commitment to providing
Site inauguration
a robust telephony network and
aiding the overall development of the
Kerala telecom circle. In keeping with
our mission of Transforming Lives by Manjush Mathews, Circle CEO
Enabling Communication, Indus has Kerala lighting the lamp at
provided mobile connectivity to the inauguration
3,000 people of Poovaranthodu, a
remote hilltop town near Kozhikode
District in Kerala, situated at 2,500 authorities and the residents, Indus Towers managed to set up mobile tower infrastructure at
metres above sea level. 2,500 metres above sea level.
The town had faced major issues with Vinu Verghese - COO Kerala, Idea Cellular lauded Indus and Idea’s commitment to take the
essential services in the region, due benefits of mobile connectivity to the deep interiors of the state. Both
to lack of mobile connectivity for a Indus’ and Idea’s teams braved the tough climatic and geographical
long time. Moreover, the hilly terrain conditions of Poovaranthodu to connect the people living in the
deterred all efforts of building telecom village, with the rest of the world. This enhanced connectivity is sure
infrastructure. But with the sustained to bring about socio-economic development of the people in the
efforts of the company leadership, local region and change their lives for the better.n
Site Inspection RJio CEO addressing the Townhall
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Regional highlights Rajasthan & Andhra Pradesh CSR Iimpact
One Team Indus Supports JV Customers Via Project C Re IIMPACT: SOS Village- Project Nurture
One Goal
Indus Towers under ‘Project Nurture’
An act of has partnered with various SOS Villages
of India to ensure holistic development
Team Indus managed to install a GBM of 280 children and mothers living
at a critical location in Jaipur, despite
adverse environmental conditions.
restoring Life in 28 families in 14 villages, namely
Alibaug, Bawana, Bhuj, Chennai,
Cochin, Faridabad, Greenfields,
Site Moti Doongri was a critical site in Raniya is a 13-year-old girl from Purulia, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Rajpura,
Jaipur. During the sharing activity of West Bengal studying in Indus -IIMPACT Varanasi, Vishakhapatnam and Pune. SOS Mother ‘Bharti Bhardwaj’
(House No. 11- Shubham, SOS
one OPCO, the site went on hold, owing learning centre. She lost her father in Each house consists of 10 children
Children’s Village, Alibaug)
to public resistance. The people in the the early years of her life. Her family has along with one mother.
vicinity did not allow the execution of seven members, all struggling to earn a
Appreciation from Idea Circle CEO for Project CoRe
sharing work. Gradually, the matter got living. They make baskets and are able Mother Bharti joined SOS in February 2011. Her inclination towards children made
further aggravated - which led to the to fetch Rs. 150 per day. her foray into the development sector. She has been the pillar of strength for
removal of the anchor tenancy and the To support our customers in reducing this, we have met many of our focus children under her care. Bharti’s dedication and determination paid off when one
termination of the tower in 2016. A COW operating expenditure and improving parameters. Raniya is a bright child at the centre with of her children, Vivek who was diagnosed with a fatal infection was brought back to
location was then acquired, but it could efficiency, without impacting Indus’ good interest in studies. However, she a stable health condition. Not only did she nurture the health of this child but also
not be installed due to public resentment bottom line, AP circle has launched A weekly review with direct was forced to work in a brick making ensured that he did not lag behind in his studies. Vivek scored 76% in his class X
and agitation. Project CoRe. This project has the involvement of the Business Heads group and was banned to go back home. board exams this year.
following - rental reduction, ID-OD of the JV customers has helped She stayed with the other workers in
Another New Built site in the same conversion, conversion of single to in expediting any long pending an open ground tent and worked as a
vicinity, Kailashpur, was also on hold multiple tenancies and relocation to approvals. bonded laborer. She was paid only Rs.
Raniya, 13-year-old
since 2009. This site was required by Government sites with lower rentals. 50 per day.
girl from Purulia,
Airtel and no alternate New Built option The outcome of Project CoRe is that West Bengal
was available. Airtel has since installed its For implementation of the project, Phase I yielded a significant amount The IIMPACT teacher with the help of
own COW to address the requirement in we created a dedicated group that of annual savings and Phase II yielded the local counsellor rescued her from
that area. included representation from Indus an additional benefit to the OpCo. the brick making field and brought her
and the customer. We conducted Indus received words of appreciation back home. The teachers motivated
After much perseverance by Indus’ workshops to train the field teams, from the Idea Circle CEO for Project and counselled her. Now she comes to
Acquisition team, an MOU was signed who would educate the landlords CoRe. the centre regularly. She is in grade III
with Jaipur Nagar Nigam and Indus about the market scenario. This was and dreams of being an economically
received a NOC for this critical site. The followed up by field action whereby n independent person in life. Indus – IIMPACT learning centre at
site was finally installed and delivered on the field teams approached the n Purulia, WB
25th November 2017, facilitated by the landlords with full preparation and
wholehearted support from the Police, a definite strategy. As a result of
Administration authorities and Indus
teams. This delivery was made possible
Project CoRe - Achieved Vs Target (Mn)
New leadership
owing to Indus’ vision of ‘One Team One
Goal’ and its commitment to always
keeping the customer priorities foremost.
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160 147 We would like to welcome Pritpal S. Resources. He has also held leadership
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Kular who has recently joined as the positions in various organisations before
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Chief Human Resource Officer (CHRO) that like Federal – Mogul, Max Bupa
100 80 80 at Indus Towers Limited. Pritpal brings Health Insurance Company, Heidelberg
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60 with him over 28 years of rich and diverse Cement and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer
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experience across various facets of Healthcare.
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Human Resources and Business Strategy.
Airtel Idea Vodafone Pritpal’s last stint was with General n Pritpal S. Kular, Chief Human Resource
Glimpse of Tower:
Motors India as Vice President, Human Officer (CHRO) , Indus Towers Limited
Achieved (Annual Saving Mn) Target (Mn)
Airtel - COW
location
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in focus recognition in focus Partners’ Meet
Visionary CEO award
CEO of the year 2017
We are proud to announce that Mr Akhil Gupta, Board
Bimal Dayal was presented the Visionary CEO Award for his leadership in
developing Smart Cities Digital Infrastructure. Indus Awards Partners for
Exceptional Performance
Member, Indus Towers (Vice Chairman, Bharti Enterprises &
Executive Chairman, Bharti Infratel) has won the prestigious The award was handed over to Bimal by Mr Durga Shankar Mishra, IAS-
‘Entrepreneurial CEO’ Award of the year 2017. Secretary, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs and Ms Madhu Azad, Mayor
Gurugram, in the event Gurugram Smart City Summit held on 1 February 2018.
The award was presented to Mr. Gupta at the Gala Award Present on the occasion were Municipal Commissioners & CEOs of Smart City
ceremony in Mumbai, in the presence of over 400 business SPVs. For Warehouse, Pro Connect Supply
As every year, this year too, Indus For Security Management Services,
leaders and special invitees. organized a Partners’ Meet to Chain Solutions Limited won the Gold Royal Command Protection Group won
acknowledge the exceptional services Award. the Gold Award.
provided by Partners and to award them
in various categories. For Integrated Maintenance Expertise, For Technology, Exide Industries Limited
Shivam Infocom Private Limited won the won the Gold Award.
For Infrastructure Equipment –Supply, Gold Award, Teja Technical Services and
the Gold award was won by Amara Raja Vedaant Commercial Services won the For Information Technology, Tata
Batteries Limited and the Silver Award Silver Award and Sreelakshmi Enterprises Consultancy Services won the Gold
was won by Delta Power Solutions (India) took home the Bronze Award. Award.
Private Limited.
For Turnkey Service Providers, Cosmo For Partner of the Year, Intelux
For Infrastructure – Structures, the Gold Infrasolutions won the Gold Award, Electronics Private limited was presented
Indus Bags ‘Top Infra award was won by Jag Rattan Daan
Singh & Company and the Silver Award
Rajashri Construction Company won
the Silver Award and Kartin Control was
with the Platinum Award.
Indus Awarded for Best CSR Practices Innovator’ Award was won by Valmont Structures Private
Limited.
presented the Bronze Award. The event was a wonderful platform
to fete our Partners and express our
Indus also recently won the Amity Telecom gratitude for their solid support over the
Indus was also presented with the Best Award for Excellence in the category of ‘Top years.
CSR Practices award by ET NOW at their Infrastructure Innovator of the Year 2017’, adding n
CSR Leadership Awards in February another feather to our cap.
2018, making it a hat trick of wins for INFRA EQUIPMENT – SUPPLY
Indus in the last few months.
Dignitaries from various sectors such as
infrastructure, real estate, road transport,
technology, healthcare, education,
banking and agriculture attended the
event.
CSR is a cornerstone of Indus’ corporate
ethos making this a much-cherished
recognition.
u Amara Raja Batteries Limited- Gold Award u Delta Power Solutions(India) Private Limited- Silver Award
INFRA – STRUCTURE
Indus Wins Safety Award
Indus is the winner of the FICCI special Jury Award
for ‘Act Now Be Safe- Safe Two-wheelers and Four-
wheelers’ initiative in the category of safe vehicles.
Various safety initiatives have been undertaken by Indus
across circles, to educate the field teams about safe
practices when working at a height and about electrical
and road safety.
u Jag Rattan Daan Singh & Company- Gold Award u Valmont Structures Private Limited- Silver Award Award
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in focus Partners’ Meet
INTEGRATED MAINTENANCE EXPERT
WAREHOUSE – 3PL SECURITY MANAGEMENT SERVICES
u Shivam Infocom Private Limited - Gold Award u Teja Technical Services - Silver Award u Pro Connect Supply Chain Solutions Limited- Gold Award u Royal Command Protection Group- Gold Award
TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
u Vedaant Commercial Services - Silver Award u Sreelakshmi Enterprises - Bronze Award
u Exide Industries Limited- Gold Award u Tata Consultancy Services- Gold Award
TURNKEY SERVICE PROVIDERS
PARTNER OF THE YEAR:
u Rajashri Construction Company-Silver Award
u Cosmo Infrasolutions-Gold Award
u Kartin Control is
presented- Bronze Award
u Intelux Electronics Private limited is presented with Platinum Award
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IN FOCUS Partner Profile
Partner Profile :
Valmont Industries
- INDUS POISED -
INCLUSIVE. CONNECTED. UNSTOPPABLE. INDIA.
Valmont Industries is a leading producer Engineering is their strength. They have on their company-wide customer
and distributor of products for the developed their own expert systems service, innovation and cost effective
infrastructure and agriculture markets. and design software incorporating the solutions. Most importantly, they put
Since its modest start over 70 years design and manufacturing experience of their experience, expert understanding
ago, the company has grown to become telecom monopoles, accumulated over of customer needs, technology and
an international leader in engineered the past 35 years. operational excellence into everything
products and services for infrastructure they design and manufacture. They pride
and water conserving irrigation To address the needs of their telecom themselves on being people of integrity
equipment for agriculture. Valmont customers, they plan to expand their who always excel at delivering optimal
manufactures products from facilities in product offerings to include Lattice results.
23 different countries spread across 6 Towers, Pipe Poles, Smart Poles
continents, and does business in over 100 (complete with wiring and components) n
different countries. and Camouflage Poles. In view of the
growing investment opportunities in
Valmont India is a wholly owned Indian infrastructure, Valmont are also
subsidiary company of Valmont diversifying their portfolio to include
Industries, Inc. Valmont designs, differentiated products like Decorative
manufactures and supplies poles mainly Poles and Traction Masts across other
categorised under three broad segments verticals.
- Lighting, Telecom and Utility. They also
manufacture Metal Beam Crash Barriers, Valmont’s employees are passionate
more commonly known as Guard Rails, about the products they make.
catering to the Highway Safety segment. Valmont have built their reputation
Globally, the company has a turnover of
$3 billion and sales outside the United
States represent a significant portion
(50%) of revenues. Their plant has an
annual tonnage capacity of 18,000
metric tons.
The establishment of a world class
manufacturing plant at Indapur in Pune
TO REVOLUTIONIZE
CREATING A SMART CITY ISN’T ABOUT
led to a further widening of Valmont’s
Indian customer base. As an industry ROADS, WATER AND POWER. IT’S ABOUT
CONNECTING HOPE WITH OPPORTUNITY.
THE WAY INDIA LIVES
leader and one of India’s largest custom
galvanizers, they are equipped to FOR EVERY INDIAN.
handle galvanizing needs for all kinds of
structures.
Valmont India has been associated with
Indus Towers for over 4 years. Valmont
have successfully supplied and installed
over 550 telecom monopoles across As the world’s largest telecom tower company with Now, we’re geared up to pivotally en-
cities in the country. They have also over 1,22,920 towers and over 2,97,867 tenancies, able Generation Next.
exported over 5,000 monopoles to the we have already connected 600 million lives To proudly place an inclusive India
Middle East, African and Asia Pacific on the digital superhighway.
Regions from across all segments.
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