Divi�s Laboratories Ltd.
Sales (2007-2008) =Rs.1000 crores (rounded off)
Net profit after tax =Rs.350 crores (rounded off)
CSR Budget= Not Available
Karmayog 2008 CSR Rating: 2/ 5
CSR activities:
Health, Safety and Environment
Health, Safety, Security and Environment is at the core of our business and all employees are part of the rigorous implementation regimen to protect environment. Divi conducts operations using sound health, safety, security and environment systems, which reflects the best industry practices and the following activities are implemented continually:
- Imparting basic safety training to all employees at the manufacturing facilities.
- Conducting Safety and technical competency development programs to improve competencies of employees for safety critical jobs.
- Work place inspections by executives and managers at all levels. Senior management team members involve in the process and show commitment through work place inspections.
- Reduce waste generation and improve environment management by collection, treatment and disposal of all waste in an environment friendly manner.
- Development of green cover by tree plantation across premises and factory.
- the company is also audited by outside agencies regularly.
Community Development activities
Corporate social responsibility is integrated in all the activities that Divi undertakes. Divi continues to be associated with various community development activities in the villages around the company�s Manufacturing Facilities. Divi follows a structured process through which it engages with the communities around its plant sites to understand their needs. In consultation with these communities, self help groups and government agencies, Divi contributed for and executed several community development programs either on its own or through Voluntary/Government organizations aimed at improving self-reliance, health and hygiene, some of the examples are:
? Helping communities to manage their water and other natural resources effectively
? Organizing health camps and veterinary camps
? Helping self-help groups to improve their economic conditions
? Encouraging rural enterprise development, like garments making where women contribute more and gain economic independence
? Providing vocational training
? Promoting quality health and education
�We believe in coexistence of industry with the society. We were given a world and we strive not only to protect it but to enhance it for future generations.�
For over a decade, Divi�s has been working towards socio-economic development in the villages around its manufacturing sites, one step at a time. Recognizing that such a mammoth task requires many hands to accomplish, the environment conscious team continues to steadily do its bit towards giving the less privileged a reason to feel better. Whether it�s planting trees or implementing welfare schemes, educating children or converting unskilled workers into skilled ones, Divi�s has given people a reason to smile. In a world where everyone is racing towards individual targets, Divi�s moves with single minded purpose towards a common goal, a vision to nurture hopes and nourish minds.
The Breath of Life
- Trees and plants are a life giving source, purifying the atmosphere and beautifying the landscape.
- Divi�s planted over 300,000 plants in the periphery of its manufacturing facilities providing a colourful, naturally scenic backdrop to the state-of-the-art facility.
- Today, 15 villages around Divi�s Unit-I with a population of about 45,000 people, and 15,000 people spread across 20 villages near Unit-II have been beneficiaries of the Company�s welfare programmes.
Members of an extended family
- It is this philosophy which has led the Company into various efforts in the field of Education, Public Health, Village Development, Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development, Women Welfare, Public Awareness, Cooperation in Government Welfare Programmes, Drinking Water Schemes and more�
- Spurred on by the belief that �One enlightened mind can illuminate the entire universe�, Divis has increased its efforts to reach out to the underprivileged through education facilities, extending scholarships to merit students and physically handicapped students, and distributing about 37,000 note books each year.
- The Company also contributes to salaries of 24 teachers every year apart from constructing class rooms and furniture to schools, science lab equipment, uniforms and sports kits so that they are better equipped to meet students�requirements.
- Working on the premise that �health is wealth� Divi�s has undertaken to provide sanitary toilet facilities in schools and has also undertaken health check-ups for over 5000 students, including free eye camps during which 308 Cataract operations were performed and 2700 pairs of spectacles were donated.
- Divi�s has contributed to a Corpus Fund for the upgradation of schools, has been providing incentives for Family Planning, actively cooperating in the Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme and the prevention of Japanese Encephalitis, and organizing O.R.T. Training Camps.
Healthy Villages make a Thriving World
- Divi�s has taken its efforts to new levels to ensure the health and hygiene at each of the villages in their sphere of operation.
- Recognising the crying need of people in these villages affected by florosis for safe drinking water, Divi put in place deflourination units.
- Embarking on further safety and social programmes, Divis has constructed drains, good roads, bus shelters and community halls.
Cattle � farmers� base for livelihood
- Divi�s recognized the need of the farmers to keep their livestock healthy to help them credible earnings.
- Divi has conducted Veterinary Camps, Advisory camps on Dairy Development, improved Veterinary Dispensaries, distributed microscopes to facilitate correct diagnoses, and donated refrigerators for the hygienic storage of medicines.
Spreading the glow of fulfillment
Divi has initiated several self- employment schemes for women and construction of community buildings for them organize better and become self reliant. The Company has organized several tailoring, book binding and other vocational training programmes for the youth in the villages.
Source: www.divislabs.com/inside/pdf/ar2008.pdf pg 14/15/16
Contact Information:
Divi�s Laboratories Ltd.
Divi Towers, 7-1-77/E/1/303
Dharam Karan Road, Ameerpet
Hyderabad- 500 016
Andhra Pradesh
Phone no. :40 2373 1318, 2373 1760 / 61.
Fax :40- 2373 3242.
Email : mail@divislaboratories.com
Website : http://www.divislabs.com/
Industry Sector: Pharmaceuticals
Products / Services: Research & Development is its prime fundamental, Divis Laboratories focussed on developing new processes for the production of Active Pharma Ingredients (APIs) & Intermediates. The company in a matter of short time expanded its breadth of operations to provide complete turnkey solutions to the domestic Indian pharmaceutical industry.
Other locations of factories / offices: Vishkhapatnam, Switzerland, New Jersey
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