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TCL is committed to improve quality of life and conserve the environment
and bio-diversity. Guided by our CSR policy, we follow an integrated
approach to community development, touching all aspects of society
including livelihood, education, health, environment, and empowerment
of the weaker sections. Our CSR activities are represented as BEACON -
Blossom, Enhance, Aspire, Conserve and Nurture.

Blossom – Building capacity and empower Infrastructure development and Haldia, we are also working with the
communities through a replicable handicraft At Mithapur, we constructed a 1,013-meters Eco Clubs in schools to raise awareness on
development model. square of brick paved track, 617 meters environment conservation.
Total Expenditure: ` 81 lakhs. of drainage channel, and two cattle Land reclamation
Okhai Centre for Empowerment worked sheds. Support was also provided to two Land development program and water
closely with around 750 artisans across primary schools and an Integrated Child management and conservation programs
India to create livelihood opportunities for Development Services Centre. such as Mission Jal and drip irrigation were
rural women artisans. Providing support to carried out at Babrala and Mithapur. In Uttar
artisans with training and market linkages, Aspire - Encourage functional education Pradesh, approximately 2,410 acres of land
the Centre worked as a bridge between and skills for sustainable socio-economic was reclaimed with laser leveling and deep-
artisans and customers facilitating sale development. ploughing.
through the Okhai website and outlets. Total Expenditure: ` 366 lakhs Energy e ciency
Okhai is also working with women Educational Programmes We continue to promote energy e cient
producing handicrafts including rexene 8,500 children bene ted from initiatives cook stoves in Haldia and constructed
and leather work, bead work, block print such as an e-library, learning enhancement 600 units. 21 solar street lights have been
material, coconut ber products, paper carry programme, teacher training, scholarships, installed in Mithapur.
bags etc. child learning and improvement programme
and a residential summer camp on spoken Nurture - Better health through prevention
Enhance - Promoting livelihood of farmers English and personality development. and cure.
with agriculture and livestock development Vocational skills and employability Total Expenditure: ` 187 lakhs
programmes. We are running skill development Vision and surgical support
Total Expenditure: ` 106 lakhs program in Mithapur, Babrala, Haldia, 36,784 patients received counselling and
Agriculture development programme and Sriperumbudur to train unemployed treatment through eye camps in Mithapur,
Activities include training farmers, eld youth and facilitate their employment and Babrala and Haldia. We provided eye check-
demonstrations, and supply of seeds and entrepreneurial skills. We partnered with up and spectacle support for 1,584 people
agri-equipment to enhance productivity. Tata Strive to run a skill development and cataract operation support for 265
The program also promotes the use of center at Aligarh. During the year, more patients.
digital technology to disseminate agriculture than 2,000 youth were trained on di erent
related information to farmers. More than vocational skills. Nutrition of women and children
6,000 farmers were bene ted throughout In Babrala, we facilitated government run
the year. Conserve - Conserve natural resources health programs in rural communities
Animal husbandry through participatory approach for through vaccination of pregnant women
Conducting regular healthcare and environmental sustainability. and children under ten-years. We covered
vaccination camps at di erent locations, Total Expenditure: ` 463 lakhs 15,243 women and children. A malnutrition
we covered 60,000 plus animals. We also Whale sharks program in Dharni (Amravati, Maharashtra)
supported 238 families for sh culture and The whale shark project at Mithapur focuses and Pati (Barwani, Madhya Pradesh) aimed
192 households for poultry farming. on habitat study, research on migratory at decreasing Infant Mortality Rate and
Uday Foundation patterns, and breeding biology. During the Maternal Mortality Rate, is helping us
The Foundation employs 282 young people year, 30 Whale Sharks caught accidentally in improve nutritional practices and linking the
who provide backend customer support to the shing nets along the Saurashtra coast women and children with the government
di erent organisations. were rescued and released taking the total health department. We screened 3,500
rescue gure to 720. In Mithapur, Babrala, pregnant and lactating women for

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