CSR Thrust Areas
The Company will focus its efforts through programs designed in the domains of education,
health and environment. The Company may also form its own Foundations/Trusts for
carrying out socio-economic projects as approved by the Board or alternatively make
contributions to its Associate Companies’ Corporate Foundations/Trusts towards its
corpus for projects approved by the Board. A Company mayalsocollaboratewith group
companies for undertakingprojectsorprogramsorCSR activities in such a manner that
the CSR Committees of respective companiesare in a position to report separately
on such projects or programs in accordance with the prescribed CSR Rules
Our commitment to CSR will be manifested by investing resources
in any of the following areas:
(i) eradicating hunger, poverty and malnutrition, promoting preventive health care
and sanitation and making available sake drinking water;
(ii) promotingeducation, including special education and employment enhancing vocation
skills especially among children, women, elderly, and the differently abled and
livelihood enhancement projects;
(iii) promoting gender equality, empowering women, setting up homes and hostels
for women and orphans; setting up old age homes, day care centres and such other
facilities for senior citizens and measures for reducing inequalities faced by socially
and economically backward groups;
(iv) ensuring environmental sustainability, ecological balance, protection of flora
and fauna, animal welfare, agroforestry, conservation of natural resources and maintaining
quality of soil, air and water;
(v) protection of national heritage, art and culture including restoration of buildings
and sites of historical importance and works of art; setting up public libraries;
promotion and development of traditional arts and handicrafts;
(vi) measures for the benefit of armed forces veterans, war widows and their dependents;
(vii) training to promote rural sports, nationally recognized sports, Paralympic
sports and Olympic sports;
(viii) contribution to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund or any otherfund
set up by the Central Government forsocio-economic development and relief and welfare
of the ScheduledCastes, the Scheduled Tribes, other backward classes, minorities
and women;
(ix) contributions of funds provided to technology incubators located within academic
institutions which are approved by the Central Government;
(x) rural development projects.
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