Company: Grasim Industries Ltd
Income 2005-2006 = Rs 6400 Cr (rounded off)
Net profit after tax (05-06) = Rs 885 Cr (rounded off)
Karmayog CSR Rating- 2/5
CSR activities
Grasim Industries Ltd CSR : Do see the annual report page numbers 39-43
Grasim Industries Subsidary : Ultra Tech CSR Activities for the year 2006-2007
SOCIAL REPORT
Beyond Business
Transcending business, we reach out to the weaker sections of society residing near our Units.
We believe it is our collective responsibility to narrow the inequities that exist in our country.
Our social projects therefore address issues of deep relevance to human society, such as
poverty alleviation through sustainable development and livelihood processes, healthcare,
education, societal change and infrastructure development.
Your Company�s social projects are carried out under the aegis of the Aditya Birla Centre for
Community Initiatives and Rural Development, led by Mrs. Rajashree Birla, your Director.
For the year 2006-07 we have made significant progress. A summary:
In Health Care:
Medical camps were conducted across your Company�s Units, wherein the villagers were
examined and provided the necessary treatment. Emphasis is given on preventive health
care through vaccinations and awareness on proper nutrition. Curative services are provided
for cataract, tuberculosis, malaria and dental
problems.
Pre and post natal care for women were done through doorsteps services and the
concept of planned families promoted.
An intensive programme on child health through village and school checkups are of
special mention.
AIDS awareness camps were conducted to build greater awareness amongst students
and the people amidst whom we work.
Some of the other core areas of work conducted were – Pulse polio programme and
provision of safe drinking water.
�Our vision is to make a qualitative difference to the lives of the weaker sections of society
in proximity to our plants and in doing so improve the human development index of our
nation.� � Mrs. Rajashree Birla
Education:
Nurturing the child through preschool education in the form of Balwadis, Bal Sanskar
Kendras, harnessing talent through merit scholarships (mostly girl students), enrollment
drives through campaigns, minimising the drop out rate by counseling parents, conducting
adult literacy classes are our main activities in the field of education.
Children and adults in the host communities have enrolled in the Balwadis, Bal Sanskar
Kendras and Adult literacy camps.
Merit Scholarships to motivate excellence were awarded to students.
To enhance the capacity of the learners, we organise vocational training for the youth and
neo literates.
Sustainable Livelihood:
Agriculture � farmers benefit through farm-based programmes, farmer training, nursery
raising, seed multiplication and intercropping.
Cattle were immunised in animal husbandry camps.
Water harvesting structures, such as hand-pumps installation, erecting check-dams, ponds,
roof-water harvesting and digging wells support families in the host communities.
Women Self-Help Groups:
Organising women to form small thrift and credit groups and training them for
micro-finance activities has brought about visible change in the state of the families. Self Help Groups have
enabled the empowerment of women living in villages surrounding your Company�s Units.
Women were given training in income generation activities like tailoring,incense sticks making, weaving,
mushroom cultivation and bee keeping.
Most of them are self employed today and invoke a culture of entrepreneurship and
women empowerment.
Social Welfare:
To support the weaker sections of the society particularly the scheduled castes and tribes,
organising of mass marriage programmes, awareness programmes against prevailing social
evils are organised. Orientation programmes on Panchayati Raj, Government Schemes,
Right to Information and Consumer Rights are organised to empower the poor.
Infrastructure:
Infrastructure development is supported by your Company through the construction and
repair of approach roads, setting up troughs and drinking water structures, health centres
and facilities for the under-served communities, including construction of low cost toilets.
In our own humble way we try to make a difference. At the end of the day we fully realise that even though we work in around 3,700 villages at the Group level, so much more needs to be done, given that we are a nation of over 6 lac villages.
Women self-help activity
ENVIRONMENT REPORT
Your Company subscribes to triple-bottom line accountability wherein social, economic and
environmental responsibility is an intrinsic part of our business growth and performance.
At all of your Company�s Units, clean technologies and processes that combine both economic progress and sustainable environment are adopted. Most of your Company�s Units are ISO 14001 Environment Management Systems Certified and adhere to OHSAS 18001 standards. During the year, the Cement Business of the Aditya Birla Group, of which your Company forms a part, became a participating member of the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI). CSI is a program of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). The agenda of the WBCSD focuses on six critical issues:
� Climate protection and CO2 management
� Responsible use of fuels and materials
� Employee health and safety
� Emission reduction
� Local impact on land and communities
� Reporting and communications
As a participating member of the CSI, your Company will have to fulfill guidelines set by
CSI, report on defined Key Performance Indicators on the six major initiatives annually and
also fix targets for improvement.
You will be glad to know that your Company is one of the few cement companies in the world to be awarded Certified Emission Reduction Credits (CERs) by the United Nations Framework 48 Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) as per Kyoto Protocol.104,603 CERs were awarded for the CDM Project on Optimum Utilisation of Clinker by Production of Pozzolona Cement at your Company�s Unit in Andhra Pradesh for the period 1st April, 2000 to 31st March, 2006. Your Company also commissioned a 4 MW power generation unit utilising Cooler Waste gases at its Unit in Andhra Pradesh. This is the second such installation in a cement plant in the world and the first in India. Several other
CDM Projects are under various stages of implementation.
Whitehoppleman, an independent UK based consulting organisation conducts annual global
benchmarking surveys for the cement industry. An assessment of your Company�s performance
on sustainability issues vis-a-vis the findings of the surveys indicate that your Company
compares favourably with the best globally, on a continuos basis.
Alongside, educating and sensitising all of our stakeholders on the need to conserve natural
resources is an ongoing process. We solicit suggestions from all our stakeholders, including
employees at all levels, on how to better our environment protection measures.
Your Directors and your Company�s employees are totally committed to sustainable
development. Their commitment is visible in the green look that the Units sport and heard in
the chirping of the winged guests at the crack of dawn.
Green surroundings at Andhra Pradesh Cement Works (APCW)
Source : Annual Report
Aditya Birla Group CSR :
The footprint of our social work today straddles over 3,700 villages, reaching out to more than 2 million people annually. Our community work is a way of telling the people among whom we operate that We Care.
Strategy-projects are carried out under the aegis of the “Aditya Birla Centre for Community Initiatives and Rural Development”, led by Mrs. Rajashree Birla. The Centre provides the strategic direction, and the thrust areas for our work ensuring performance management as well.
Our focus is on the all-round development of the communities around our plants located mostly in distant rural areas and tribal belts. All our Group companies �- Grasim, Hindalco, Indian Rayon, Indo Gulf and UltraTech have Rural Development Cells which are the implementation bodies.
Projects are planned after a participatory need assessment of the communities around the plants. Each project has a one-year and a three-year rolling plan, with milestones and measurable targets. The objective is to phase out our presence over a period of time and hand over the reins of further development to the people. This also enables us to widen our reach. Along with internal performance assessment mechanisms, our projects are audited by reputed external agencies, who measure it on qualitative and quantitative parameters, helping us gauge the effectiveness and providing excellent inputs.
Our partners in development are government bodies, district authorities, village panchayats and the end beneficiaries — the villagers. The Government has, in their 5-year plans, special funds earmarked for human development and we recourse to many of these. At the same time, we network and collaborate with like-minded bilateral and unilateral agencies to share ideas, draw from each other’s experiences, and ensure that efforts are not duplicated. At another level, this provides a platform for advocacy. Some of the agencies we have collaborated with are UNFPA, SIFSA, CARE India, Habitat for Humanity International, Unicef and the World Bank.
Focus areas-Our rural development activities span five key areas and our single-minded goal here is to help build model villages that can stand on their own feet.
- Mobile clinics – doctors visit once a week
- Medical camps – general and issue-based
- Health training and awareness
- Sanitation – toilets, training, smokeless chullahs, biogas
- Safe drinking water
- Mother and child health
- Reproductive health
- Awareness building
Education
- Balwadis (pre-school)
- Adult education
- Non-formal education
- Continuing education
- Scholarships for girls, merit and technical education
Rural Development
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Self-help groupsSGSY – dairy, readymade garments, jute project, basket making, aggarbati making, bee keeping, durrie making.Check damIrrigationLand developmentSoil and water conservationPasture development
- Corporate Communications cell,
The Aditya
Aount spent on CSR : Unknown
For More Information on Aditya Birla Group CSR
http://www.adityabirla.com/social_projects/downloads/csr_brochure.pdf
Amount Spent on CSR activities : No Information available on website & annualreport.
Contact details
The Aditya Birla Group
Corporate Communications cell,
1st Floor, ‘C’ Wing
Aditya Birla Centre
S. K. Ahire Marg,
Worli,
Mumbai 400 030
Tel:91-22-6652 5000 / 2499 5160
Fax:91-22-66525741/ 42
E-mail: mailto:pragnyaram@adityabirla.com?cc=info@karmayog.org
Website address : www.adityabirla.com / www.grasim.com
URL :www.adityabirla.com/social_projects/overview.htm