Community

An everlasting debt to Solapur

For Jamshri, responsibility has never been a department. It has taken the form of schools and public-health institutions, alongside homes and care for the city.

The belief behind it is told in our story. This is what it built.

Impact

Philosophy, made concrete

Infrastructure the city still uses, across education, health and community.

Education

Schooling as long-term social investment, including some of Solapur's earliest inclusive education.

  • Damani Vidya Mandir1968 Built on land donated by Bhairuratan Damani. Still one of Solapur's most sought-after Marathi-medium schools, oversubscribed for admissions every year.
  • Bhairuratan Damani Residential School For visually impaired children.
  • Radhakishan Fomra School For children with hearing impairment.
  • Damani School For children with learning disabilities.

Healthcare

Public-health institutions begun long before responsibility was a mandate.

  • Gopabai Damani Blood Bank1958 Established with the Red Cross and inaugurated by the Governor of Mumbai. Among Solapur's earliest civic-health institutions, and still serving the city.

Community upliftment

Business decisions created homes and elder care for the community. Sport and civic spaces followed.

  • Damani Nagar1976 Asked to surrender land, Jamshri instead gave its workers homes. The settlement grew into a neighbourhood that still carries the name.
  • Damani Senior Citizens Home Care and dignity for Solapur's elderly.
  • Solapur Club pool & tennis courts Civic sport and recreation, with coaching for young players.
  • Backing local sporting talent From Olympian Prarthana Thombare to national-level junior cricketers.
The Gopabai Damani Blood Bank building in Solapur
The Gopabai Damani Blood Bank, Solapur.
Damani Vidya Mandir, Solapur, on a celebration day
Damani Vidya Mandir, Solapur, on a celebration day.

People first

A workforce treated as family

Through the mill years, Jamshri's deepest responsibility was to its own people, and the record shows it.

  • 63 yearsoperated with zero man-days lost to labour unrest
  • 60%of the workforce were women, across all shifts, with transport and counselling support
  • 400 workershelped into new roles before the mill closed in 2018, a zero-displacement transition
Premratan Damani receiving a Government of India Certificate of Merit for energy conservation
Premratan Damani receives national recognition for Jamshri's energy-conservation work.

Embedded in how we operate

Sustainability, the way the business runs

Long before ESG was a checklist, Jamshri treated energy, water and materials as things to respect, and was recognised nationally for it.

Adaptive reuse

The mill is being reused, its structures and memory carried into Jamshri City rather than cleared away.

Water conservation

Water systems and conservation designed into how the campus operates day to day.

Green energy1.5 MW

An on-site solar plant today, continuing an energy-conscious streak that ran the mill partly on bagasse, decades before cogeneration was common.

Recognised work

Two SRTEPC export awards in 1989–90 and 1990–91, followed by a national Certificate of Merit for energy conservation in 2015–16.

Jamshri Greens

Plantation and vermicomposting support produce grown on site. The work is maintained and recorded over time.

One thread across the decades

A century of giving back

  1. 1955At nineteen, P.R. Damani acquires Jamshri Mills
  2. 1958Gopabai Damani Blood Bank, handed to the Red Cross
  3. 1968Damani Vidya Mandir, land donated for a school
  4. 1976Worker homes become Damani Nagar
  5. 1989–91Two export awards from the Synthetic & Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council
  6. 2015–16A Government of India Certificate of Merit for energy conservation
  7. 2018→The textile chapter closes and adaptive reuse into Jamshri City begins

Today

Putting structure around what we already practise

Because responsibility and sustainability have always been lived rather than labelled, a formal ESG framework is not yet in place. It is now taking shape to make this work measurable and open to scrutiny. The company's governance policies are available in the investor hub.

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"For more than a century, Jamshri has evolved with Solapur, from textile production to worker welfare, from social infrastructure to modern placemaking. Jamshri City is the next expression of the same belief: that enterprise must create lasting value for the city around it."

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