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Relief Programmes: The Company continues its support to 3. Have you done any impact assessment of your initiative?
any disaster, which hits the country. Yes. Impact of activities is measured on a regular basis by
Programmes during Covid-19: Throughout the year, doing impact assessment, social audit by third-party and by
the Company took various initiatives to support the assessment as per Tata Sustainability Framework Analysis.
government and local communities in the fight against A community satisfaction survey is carried out yearly to
Covid-19. This included financial support towards the understand the perception of the community, reach of
relief funds of state governments, providing sodium programmes and the satisfaction level of the community.
hydrochloride, hand sanitisers, medical infrastructure, supply The Company has carried out a detailed Impact assessment
of dry ration, driver kit, hygiene kit, distribution of masks, and process documentation of the Babrala agriculture and
awareness drives, etc. In addition to this, the Company Livestock Management Programmes.
supported community livelihood through SHGs making There are various types of annual social assessment that
masks and providing a platform to the farmers to reach are being conducted for the impact of the programme,
the consumers in Mithapur and Dwarka through a mobile community satisfaction, need identification and future
application. A digital push in all our interventions included planning.
online education classes for students, Digital training to
137 SHGs members – Hu Pan Digital, Online training or Details of assessments are mentioned below:
programme for farmers awareness on various agriculture Sr. Name of the Beneficiaries Remark
information, online skill training for youth, etc. Community No. Assessment
engagement was ensured through virtual connects and 1. Community a) Community Internal
celebrations, small group meetings, phone calls, whatsapp Satisfaction members assessment done
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annually and
calls, etc. b) Beneficiaries of
project external impact
For further information on projects and achievements, please c) Panchayat Leaders assessment
visit www.tcsrd.org and www.okhai.org. d) Vendors done every 3rd
year
2. Tata Affirmative People from backward Through external
2. Are the programmes/projects undertaken through Action Program classes on Education, assessors
in-house team/own foundation/external NGO/ Assessment Employment,
government structures/any other organisation? Entrepreneurship and
The Company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (‘CSR’) Employability
projects are implemented through the Tata Chemicals 3. External Beneficiaries of the Through external
Society for Rural Development (‘TCSRD’) which was set up in Assessment programme assessors
1980 to protect and nurture rural populations. Since then, the
Company has set up other focussed organisations such as 4. What is the Company’s direct contribution to community
the Tata Chemicals Golden Jubilee Foundation and Okhai – development projects - Amount in INR and the details of
Centre for empowerment. The Governing Board of TCSRD and the projects undertaken?
Okhai comprises eminent personalities from the academia, For FY 2020-21, the amount spent for community
industry and civil society. In 2018, the Company incorporated development projects: ` 21 crore.
a new organisation – ‘Ncourage Social Enterprise Foundation’ The programme framework linked to UN SDGs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
to promote social enterprise development in the rural areas 6, 7, 10, 13, 14, 15 & 17 has the following elements: building
of India. The Company works with partners who respect economic capital, ensuring environmental integrity, enablers
and agree to the organisations’ core CSR values. TCSRD has for social, economic and environmental development and
always worked in partnership with government agencies, building social capital.
voluntary bodies and local authorities in implementing
CSR initiatives. The Company has partnered with various Building economic capital
government and non-government organisation such as Farm-based livelihoods
Sir Ratan Tata Trust, WASMO (Water and Sanitation The Company is promoting livelihood of farmers
Management Organisation), NABARD (National Bank through its agriculture and livestock development
for Agriculture and Rural Development), American India programmes. Under the agriculture development
Foundation, WTI (Wildlife Trust of India), HP, Schneider and programme, the Company organised capacity building
GRIMCO (Gujarat Rural Industries Marketing Corporation of farmers (online and offline modes) exposure visits,
Limited). field demonstration and supported with seeds and

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