Company: Hindustan Lever Ltd
Income 2005-2006 = Rs 10250 Cr (rounded off)
Net profit after tax (05-06) = Rs 1200 Cr (rounded off)
Karmayog CSR Rating- 3/5
CSR activities:
Asha Daan
HLL supports Asha Daan run in Mumbai by the Missionaries of Charity (founded by the late Mother Teresa). Asha Daan is a home for abandoned, handicapped children, the destitute and people affected by AIDS (HIV positive). Asha Daan had been set up on a 72,500 square feet plot, in the heart of the city leased by the company. HLL also bears the capital and revenue expenses for maintenance, upkeep and security of the premises
Ankur
Very similar to Asha Daan is Ankur in HLL’s Doom Dooma Plantation in Assam. A centre for special education of handicapped children aged between 5 and 15 years, it was opened in 1993. It received the Lawrie Group Worldaware Award for Social Progress in 1999. It provides educational, vocational and recreational activities to its 60 inmates (38 boys and 22 girls). These physically and mentally challenged children are taught skills such as cookery, painting, embroidery, bamboo crafts, weaving, stitching, depending on their aptitudes to make them self-reliant. A few of the children have been able to pursue normal education in regular schools after obtaining rehabilitative support.
‘Kappagam’
‘Kappagam’ (means ‘shelter’), a second centre for special education of mentally and physically challenged children was set up in HLL’s plantations in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu in 1998. At present, Kappagam takes care of seven boys and 10 girls. Apart from various rehabilitative inputs, the centre provides the children with physiotherapy and speech therapy
Project Shakti
The objectives of Project Shakti are to create income-generating capabilities for underprivileged rural women by providing a sustainable micro enterprise opportunity, and to improve rural living standards through health and hygiene awareness. It has already been extended to over 5000 villages in 52 districts in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. HLL’s vision is to scale it up across the country by 2010, creating about 11000 Shakti entrepreneurs, covering 100,000 villages. A typical Shakti entrepreneur conducts business of around Rs.15,000 per month, which gives her an income in excess of Rs.1000 per month on a sustainable basis. As most of these women are from below the poverty line, and live in extremely small villages (less than 2000 population), this earning is very significant, and is almost double of their past household income. For most of these families, Project Shakti is creating opportunities to live in conditions of dignity, with real freedom from want. HLL is now in the process of piloting ‘i-Shakti’ an IT-based rural information service that will provide solutions to key rural needs in the areas of agriculture, education, vocational training, health/hygiene, etc in Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh.
Vindya Valley
In 2002, the company also took up a project in Madhya Pradesh, which will impact the entire state’s rural population. The mainstay of Madhya Pradesh’s economy is agriculture. Prosperity thus means increasing the income of farmers and small town and village entrepreneurs engaged in agro processing and cottage industries. This is where HLL is contributing its expertise. It has helped the government create ‘Vindhya Valley’, an umbrella brand for food products, and support software for its marketing, manufacturing and distribution. The upgradation will generate higher sales and higher returns for rural artisan communities, many of whom are women. To impact even larger groups, HLL is helping the government set up permanent handicraft fairs across top cities and towns of the state. The government already operates about 15,000 fair price shops. But there are villages still, which do not have access to such shops. Those villages have been identified, and fair price shops will be put up, each with a cluster of villages as a catchment area. They will be run by Self Help Groups (SHGs) and cooperatives
Khamgaon: HLL is also developing a Rural Education Programme, which aims at using audio-visual aids, like video cassettes and CDs. These tools enable teachers to explain basic concepts in mathematics, like operation on numbers, fractions, algebra and geometry, to primary school children in villages.
Yashodadham Village
HLL has reconstructed a village in the Bhachau Taluka of Gujarat’s Kachch district. The village, which has been named Yashodadham, was dedicated to its 1100 residents in December 2002. The residents belong to Nani Chirai village, which was completely wrecked by the devastating earthquake of January 2001. Yashodadham, spread over 25 acres, comprises 289 homes. HLL has also provided a school building, an exclusive playground for children and a multi-purpose community centre, including a cr�che, health centre, community room and village administration office. All the structures are earthquake and cyclone-resistant.
Integrated rural development
Integrated Rural Development (IRD) Programme in the backward district of Etah in the state of Uttar Pradesh (North India), was started in 1976, adjacent to the company’s dairy operations. In 1976, the IRD Programme started with 30 villages. As of now, it has been extended to about 500 villages. The basic activity is rural development — implementation of programmes towards activities such as farmers training, health of villagers, infrastructure development, improvement in productivity and health of cattle in Etah. The project is now being undertaken jointly with Nutricia India (which has acquired HLL’s dairy operations) and for certain health programmes, with government-run Primary Health Centres and through autonomous bodies, known as Samitis.
Protecting the environment
Our Corporate Safety & Environment Protection Department ensures that all emissions from our factories are within norms set by the respective Pollution Control Boards. To tackle the liquid effluents, gaseous emissions and solid wastes that are generated by our factories, we follow a three-pronged Pollution Control Strategy.
Eliminate or reduce effluent at the source of generation
Re-cycle effluent
Treat what is left
Appropriate treatment facilities are provided for balancing the effluents and are listed below.
Liquid effluents: Effluent treatment facilities are provided at all the sites that generate liquid effluents. The treated water is used for gardening inside the factories. So far seven sites have achieved zero liquid effluent status.
Gaseous emissions: All our factories are provided with chimneys of adequate size. Wherever necessary, cyclones, bag filters, scrubbers and electrostatic precipitators have also been installed. To site an example, the Haldia Chemicals complex’ Sulphuric Acid Plant was the first in the country to install exotic stainless steel heat exchangers replacing cast iron Trombone Acid Coolers, and commissioned the first start-up Scrubber in the Eastern Region.
Solid wastes: Our factories recycle most of the solid waste either directly within the factory (e.g. use of Bio-sludge from ETP as manure, re-use of used envelopes and computer stationary for internal communications) or through third party contractors. We take great care to ensure that wastes are segregated and accounted for, to facilitate recycling.
An integral part of pollution control for us is recycling of solid and liquid effluents. One of the best examples for this is our Haldia Chemicals factory, where we produce fertilisers and industrial chemicals. The Haldia factory does not pass on to the environment any liquid effluent or solid waste. The liquid effluent is completely recycled in process. Similarly, solid wastes are used in the factory’s process or converted into economically useful by-products, such as soil conditioners or other industrial intermediates
CSR Activities 2006-2007 from Hindustan Lever Annual Report :
As in the earlier years, your Company continued to involve itself in social welfare initiatives across the Country, both through charity and social investment around issues like education, health, nutrition and initiatives for the economic upliftment of the underprivileged.
In addition to initiatives like Shakti, your Company has commenced a pilot in its tea business, in partnership with an NGO (Partners in Change) to source tea directly from small producers and thereby improve their livelihood.
The effort of the Company in improving water availability through soil conservation and water harvesting methods has borne good results. In the Parkhed region (near Khamgaon factory), we have been successful in demonstrating the effectiveness of the model which is now ready for roll out. In Kharchond, Silvassa the area under irrigation has increased, thereby improving the economic condition of the villagers in the region.
The Company believes that brands must be at the forefront of driving social change. The extension of theLifebuoy Swasthya Chetna programme to 43000 villages with a view to improve hygiene standards and thereby reduce the risks of infant mortality through diarrhoea is a case in point.Your Company has formalized a brand imprint protocol, which will help every brand to assess the opportunities for social contribution and integrate the same in the overall brand strategy.
Amount spent on CSR : No information regarding the amount spent on CSR was available on the homepage .
Contact details : Hindustan Lever Ltd
165 / 166, Backbay Reclamation
Mumbai – 400 020
Maharashtra
Tel: +91 22 2287 0622 / 2282 7411
Fax: +91 22 2287 1970
Web address :www.hll.com
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