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Business Responsibility Report

Excellence for Sustainable Agriculture & Farm Excellence Details of assessments are mentioned below:
(‘C-SAFE’) and Centre for Sustainable Conservation Action Sr. Name of the Beneficiaries Remark
for Protection of Ecosystems of the Seas (‘C-SCAPES’), which No. Assessment
focusses on scientific research, piloting models, advocacy,
capacity building and field implementation through multi 1. Community a) Community members Internal
stakeholder engagement. Satisfaction b) Beneficiaries of project assessment
Index c) Panchayat Leaders done annually
For further information on projects and achievement, please d) Vendors and external
visit www.tcsrd.org; www.okhai.org impact
assessment
2. Are the programmes/projects undertaken through in- done every
house team/own foundation/external NGO/government 3rd year
structures/any other organisation? 2. Tata Affirmative People from Backward External
The Company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (‘CSR’) Action Program classes on Education,
projects are implemented through the Tata Chemicals Assessment Employment,
Society for Rural development (‘TCSRd’) which was set Entrepreneurship and
up in 1980 to protect and nurture rural populations. Employability
Since then the Company has set up other focussed 3. External Beneficiaries of the External
organisations such as the golden Jubilee Foundation, Assessment programme assessors
Uday Foundation and okhai – Centre for empowerment.
The governing Board of TCSRd and okhai comprises 4. What is the Company’s direct contribution to community
eminent personalities from the academia, industry development projects - Amount in INR and the details of
and civil society. In 2018, Tata Chemicals started a new the projects undertaken?
organisation – ‘Ncourage Social Enterprise Foundation’ For FY 2019-20, the amount spent for community
to promote enterprise development in the rural areas development projects: ` 37.81 crore.
of India. We work with partners who respect and agree
to our organisations’ core CSR values. TCSRd has always our programme framework linked to UN Sdgs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
worked in partnership with government agencies, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14, 15 & 17, has the following elements: building
voluntary bodies and local authorities in implementing economic capital, ensuring environmental integrity, enablers
CSR initiatives. The Company has partnered with various for social, economic and environmental development and
government and non-government organisation such as building social capital.
Sir Ratan Tata Trust, WASMo (Water and Sanitation Building economic capital
Management organisation), NABARd (National Bank for Farm-based livelihoods -
Agriculture and Rural development), American India
Foundation, Wildlife Trust of India, HP, Schneider and The Company is promoting livelihood of farmers through
gRIMCo (gujarat Rural Industries Marketing Corporation its agriculture and livestock development programmes.
Ltd.). Under the agriculture development programme, the
Company organised capacity building of farmers, exposure
3. Have you done any impact assessment of your initiative? visits, field demonstration and supported with seeds and
agri-equipment for enhancing the productivity.
Yes. Impact of activities is measured on a regular basis by during the year, more than 9,800 farmers were
doing impact assessment, social audit by third-party and by directly benefited from various interventions. In
assessment as per Tata Sustainability Framework Analysis. Mithapur, the Company in partnership with Coastal
A community satisfaction survey is carried out yearly to Salinity Prevention Cell (‘CSPC’) is implementing the
understand the perception of the community, reach of okhamandal Samridh gram Pariyojna (‘oSgP’) project
programmes and the satisfaction level of the community.
with the objective to double the income of farmers in
There are various types of annual social assessment that 4 years. The Company facilitated registration of a Farmers
are being conducted for the impact of the programme, Producer Company, under the name of okhamandal
community satisfaction, need identification and future Farmer Producer Company Limited (‘oFPCL’) which would
planning. benefit approximately 1,200 farmers. Animal husbandry is

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