The document summarizes the CSR activities of various service sector companies in India. It discusses the initiatives of companies like Siemens India, Welspun India Ltd., Kansai Nerolac Paints Ltd., Godrej Consumer Products Ltd., and DSP Merrill Lynch Ltd. in areas such as empowering differently abled individuals, education, healthcare, community development, and environmental conservation. The CSR activities include vocational training programs, medical camps, supporting education institutions, plantation drives, and donations to organizations working in areas like disability reduction and wildlife conservation.
3. SEIMENS INDIA
Provide equal employment opportunity to differently abled
in co-ordination with Ability Foundation, an NGO.
SIPS, a division of Siemens presently employs 45 personnel
who are differently abled
When a candidate is hired by SIPS, Ability Foundation
takes an audit of the work facilities, which include the
provision of a special ramp to ensure ease in mobility and
specially designed restrooms
Turtle Walk : It is an initiative aimed at educating the
fishing community and the general public living near the
beach on the need to protect Oliver Ridley turtles and its
turtle nests
4. WELSPUN INDIA LTD.
In sync with their guiding path of five E's , Enrichment of
mind, Enrichment of body, Education, Empathy,
Empowerment of Women and contributions for other social
activities they try to make continuous efforts to better the
lives of everyone involved with us both, directly or
indirectly.
ENRICHMENT OF MIND : Workshops on Yoga and
nutrition Employees are taught easy steps that can be
practiced at the work place as well to derive the benefits of
Yoga. Classes on nutrition are also held at all their plants
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ENRICHMENT OF BODY : Medical camps for women The
aim of this exercise is to ensure that all their employees are
physically fit which in turn leads to their mental health.
EDUCATION : Especially through vocational training to
economically backward children.
Educational Institutions: It has set up quot; Welspun Vidya
Mandir quot;, a school up to class 10. Recently they have set
up ' Welspun Anganvadi' which is a pre-primary school
for children; these schools are open not only to the
children of the Welspun employees but also the children
of the other local families
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EMPATHY Their contributions are aimed at improving the
lives of Individuals and helping them in their society to
become self supportive. Some of there contributions
include:
Visually Impaired Children: Welspun is closely
associated with blind and visually impaired children,
specifically girls.
Water Effluent Plant: they have set up a Water Effluent
Plant at Welspun City at Anjar in Gujarat . This plant
recycles the water to be used for industrial and
household purposes.
Jatropha Plantation: The Jatropha plant is a drought
resistant perennial and grows well in Sandy and well
drained soil.They have undertaken a drive of
Afforestation at Welspun City where by thousands of
saplings of the Jatropha tree were planted extensively
Blood Donation Camps
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EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN : As part of vocational
training, they are supplying the institutes with facilities
and man power to offer free computer classes. They
organize computer courses that are offered to working
women who intend to apply for positions in both
Government and non-government organizations.
Project “Lijjat” Programmes providing training in the art
of papad making have been organized, where women of one
hundred and forty eight Welspun families from a tiny
village have participated and have trained for two to three
hours daily. This project has provided vocational training
and in turn has led to the women making a small amount
of money that today makes a significant difference to their
lives therefore empowering them.
8. KANSAI NEROLAC PAINTS LTD.
KNP have chosen four specific areas and most of CSR
activities centers around the same. These include:
Education,
Health
Community Development
Enviornment Preservation
9. There set of CSR activities Education includes :
Scholarship to deserving students.
Promoting education for females.
Vocational classes in rural areas.
Vocation course facility for the handicapped & the mentally
challenged.
Infrastructure facility for schools.
Promoting education by distributing books/ equipping
libraries.
Sponsor research in design/ innovation areas in educational
Institutions
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CSR activities of KNP in Health includes:
Health Checkup camps
Equipment to hospitals
Financial support to those needing treatment for critical
illness
Mobility camps
Support Cornea collection
Adopt themes like Renal failure & support activities in this
area
CSR in Community Development includes:
Rural water supply facility
Assistance during natural disasters
Community centers
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Support activities at Old age homes
Senior citizens outreach programs
Welfare of families of ex- servicemen
Traffic Signage
Restoration of historic areas
Preservation of Art at heritage institutions
Sponsor activities for the underprivileged children.
CSR in Enviornmental Preservation includes:
Tree plantation
Water conservation projects
Area beautification
12. How they operate
Every plant works out a detailed Annual CSR activity plan
in the beginning of thefinancial year and the activities are
carried out thereafter as per the plan. Each activityis
assessed, debated & then approved. While working out the
activities, the plantkeeps in mind the broad CSR objectives
and follows the guidelines provided in order to maintain
objectivity.
Proper reviews are carried out on the activities and results
obtained. RADAR approachis followed for every activity.
Results are identified & targets set, approach is decidedon
what they want to do and why, approaches are deployed
systematically, the approachis assessed and reviewed for
the results achieved with learning incorporated
for.improvement
13. GODREJ CONSUMER PRODUCTS LTD
Overall CSR policy :
Their Corporate Environment Policy has identified
biodiversity enhancement as a focal point.
The preservation of open spaces and specially green open
spaces such as mangroves has been a priority for them.
Godrej's entire campus, known as Pirojshanagar, is an
industrial garden township.
Godrej strongly believes that this green environment
enhances productivity and quality.
It has been greatly appreciated by all their employees and
visitors.
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Mangrove conservation has been the key focus of the
Environment Cell
Godrej has formed specialist groups, for example the Envirotech
Group – for pollution-reduction and related matters;
The Encon Group – for energy conservation
Most of Godrej's businesses have the ISO 14000 certification,
along with strong Environment Management system
For the Godrej family Nature has always formed an important
part of their upbringing and their garden township at Vikhroli
bears witness to this.
Every year thousands of students visit the mangrove area. They
are guided on specially organised tours, which are interesting
and educative.
15. DSP MERRILL LYNCH LTD
CSR activities:
DSPML Akanksha Centre at St. Xavier's High School,
Mumbai
Akanksha Mentoring Program
Office Assistants' Employee Children Scholarship Program
Akshaya Patra Foundation
The Akshaya Patra Foundation, a not-for-profit
organization, has been providing free meals everyday to
poverty stricken school children in and around Bangalore
city (India's Silicon City) in southern India. A Strategic
program to address two of the most pressing problems of
India: Hunger & Education
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Health -Employee Awareness Program
Camps:
Blood Donation camps.
Thalassaemia detection: organized along with Citizen, an
NGO dealing with Thalassaemia awareness and counseling
Cancer detection: organized in conjunction with Cancer
Patient Aid Association ( CPAA), an NGO working with
Cancer patients
Hepatitis B Vaccination drive
Lectures:
Health & Nutrition
Better Eyecare
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Impact India Foundation
DSPML has been associated with IMPACT India
Foundation, A registered Public Trust promoted by the
United Nations Development Programme, UNICEF, and
the World Health Organisation in association with the
Government of India, in undertaking the Disability
Reduction Project.
DSPML also supported the highly acclaimed LIFELINE
EXPRESS, the world's first hospital on a train, during the
Gujarat Earthquake relief
Environment and Wildlife:
Recycle & Reach Out (R&R) is a program initiated to
enable employees to recycle / donate item(s) to deserving
charities such as Asha Daan - run by Mother Teresa's
Missionaries of Charity, CPAA (Cancer Patients Aid
Association).
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Old greeting cards are donated to Jai Vakeel school for the
mentally challenged where school children use the cards in
school projects
Used Toner and printer cartridges are donated to the
Dhanraj Pillay Academy. The sale proceeds of the refilled
cartridges augment the corpus of the academy.
Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS):
DSPML is assisting BNHS in some of the conservation
efforts in Borivali National Park.
The forest is also home to endangered flora & fauna
including leopards as well as the atlas moth--the world's
largest moth.