SLT-Mobitel triumphs with triple wins at Best Corporate Citizen Sustainability Award 2021

From left: Ceylon Chamber of Commerce Chairman Vish Govindasamy, SLT General Manger Anuruddha Suriarachchi, SLT Chief Marketing Officer Prabhath Dahanayake, Ambassador of Norway to Sri Lanka Trine Jøranli Eskedal and Ceylon Chamber of Commerce Vice Chairman Duminda Hulangamuwa at the ‘Best Corporate Citizen Sustainability Award 2021’ ceremony 

• Awarded for demonstrated resilience during COVID-19

SLT-Mobitel as the National ICT Solutions Provider is committed to conducting its business in a way that supports the needs of all stakeholders – including employees, customers, and all communities; with the firm belief that acting as a responsible and sustainable business is fundamental to the creation and protection of long-term value.

The company’s approach to making a difference, now and in the future was recognised with triple wins at the 18th annual Best Corporate Citizen Sustainability Award 2021 held recently.

The Awards organised by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, the country’s premier business chamber, ranked SLT-Mobitel among the Top Ten Corporate Citizens of 2021 and recognised it as the ‘Sustainability Champion’ for its category, a true testament to its commitment to actively integrate sustainability principles into the business culture.

Being awarded at the Annual ‘Best Corporate Citizen Sustainability Award 2021’ demonstrates SLT-Mobitel’s continued efforts to fulfil its corporate social responsibility in the areas of Economy, Governance, Environment and Society.

SLT-Mobitel was also adjudged second runner-up for ‘Demonstrated Resilient Practices for COVID-19 Context Award’ that was presented this year to companies, for showcasing emergency preparedness, resilience and stakeholder management in successfully meeting unforeseen challenges as a part of its corporate sustainability strategy.

This accolade recognises SLT-Mobitel’s ability to uphold best practices in corporate governance and exemplify leadership, innovation and resilience embracing sustainability as a practice, despite a very challenging year for the nation due to the pandemic.

SLT-Mobitel’s commitment towards a sustainable business is as much strategic, as it is empathetic. Placing sustainability at the heart of everything it does, SLT-Mobitel perseveres in implementing next generation technologies, sustainable innovations and best practices ensuring it carries forth its nation building commitment, striving towards SLT Vision 2022 with the aim of becoming bigger and better together.

Over the years the company has decisively strengthened its track record as a responsible entity and remains steadfast in making a meaningful difference in sustainability commitments across environmental, social and corporate undertakings.

As a corporate citizen committed to responsible business, SLT-Mobitel is acutely aware of the need for sustainability as a way of doing business and working towards the future in a holistic manner. To maintain robust environmental, social and governance practices, the company has been streamlining all aspects of business to be more receptive towards maximum utilisation of resources, enacting attitudinal and behavioural changes to embrace sustainability as a natural habit and embedding its built environment with sustainable features that deliver immediate and ongoing reinforcement to maintaining the triple bottom-line.

Raising the bar in sustainable business practices and benefits, SLT-Mobitel as the only provider of fibre-to-the-home connectivity in Sri Lanka has begun replacing traditional copper cables with modern fibre optic cables for high-speed internet across the country. As importantly, SLT-Mobitel completely repurposes the copper cables for traditional operations, reusing resources that would otherwise have been discarded as waste.

Winning the Best Corporate Citizen Sustainability Awards are also a validation of SLT-Mobitel’s great teams in adopting to new ways of working, showcasing agility and determination to continue to deploy the right infrastructure and achieve national digital goals. Notwithstanding the challenges presented by the pandemic, SLT-Mobitel successfully fulfilled its commitments to customers serving them in multiple ways, securing lives and livelihoods. Investments exceeding Rs. 350 million has been utilised to facilitate essential services, support the government in its endeavours, uplift frontline healthcare workers and connect the nation.

Intent on keeping children in school, SLT-Mobitel facilitated low-cost data for education, and continues to provide innovate distance learning opportunities while businesses receive optimal support to continue operations with seamless work from home connectivity.

As an environmentally conscious entity, the company initiated the ‘SLT-Mobitel Green Premier League’ (GPL) parallel to the Sri Lankan Premier League 2020 where the company planted trees at the Rajawaka forest reserve in Kalthota, Balangoda equivalent to the winning score of each team in every match. The drive successfully added 4,000 plants to the forest reserve while a sustainable maintenance program for the trees was organised in collaboration with the Forest Department in accordance with UN Sustainable Developments Goals.

Clinching the triple awards illustrates SLT-Mobitel’s outstanding ability to drive corporate governance, best practices and to accelerate business transformation. Building on its strengths the company has significant plans for the year ahead and is inspired to make a positive change, redefining value and creating a vibrant future which benefit everybody.

Donating a PCR machine to the KDU Hospital