Kinetic Engineering awarded the NCPEDP-Shell Helen Keller Award 2004

December 6, 2004
New Delhi

Leading two wheeler manufacturer Kinetic Engineering Ltd has been awarded The National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) -Shell Helen Keller Award 2004. The Award consisting of a trophy and a citation was handed over to Mr. Arun Firodia, Chairman, Kinetic Engineering Limited by the Hon’ble Union Finance Minister Mr. P. Chidambaram on 2nd December 2004 on the eve of the World Disability Day.

The Shell Helen Keller Awards 2004 is an award that recognises organizations & institutions that share the vision and belief in equal rights and gainful employment for people with disabilities, through their policies and practices

Kinetic Engineering Ltd was awarded the NCPEDP-Shell Helen Kellar Award 2004 for undertaking various social initiatives that benefitted the common man. A series of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs has been sustained by Kinetic Engineering Ltd over decades.

One of the most notable CSR program is a project called "Swapnabhoomi" in Parbhani District of Maharashtra, where Kinetic Engineering Ltd has adopted a cluster of 20 villages. These villages have been provided facilities for sanitation, literacy, vocational guidance, water conservation, irrigation, women's upliftment, village industries etc. Kinetic Engineering Ltd has made an effort to transform these villages as an ‘ideal ' villages.

In addition, Kinetic runs a ‘Special program for rehabilitation of leprosy-afflicted persons. This is done by way of curing, caring, training and providing gainful rehabilitation. The program has been sustained for over a period of 15 years. Kinetic Engineering Ltd has alsobeen recently awarded the “FICCI award for empowerment of physically challenged” by Hon’ble President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.

The third initiative that Kinetic has recently started is a special alliance with Mission: Vijay II, a foundation that assists our country’s war heroes in rehabilitation. The alliance covers all ex-servicemen and war-wounded soldiers or their widows or families, and offers them an opportunity for earning livelihood after they are no longer able to serve in the army or have lost their family members.

Pune based Kinetic group was responsible for pioneering the concept of personalized transportation in India with the launch of its moped Luna in 1974. It also revolutionized the Indian scooter market by being the first to introduce modern scooters with electric start and variomatic gearless transmission. Today, the group manufactures and sells an entire range of two wheelers from motorcycles, scooters to mopeds.

The company has three state of the art manufacturing plants, a full scale research and design center and a nationwide distribution network comprising 450 dealers and over 1000 service centers across India. It holds a technical collaborations with Hyosung Motorcycles of Korea for motorcycles. The group is a leading exporter of vehicles across the globe including the USA, Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa and Australia. It has won 14 exports excellence awards.