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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (‘CSR’) WHISTLEBLOWER POLICY AND VIGIL MECHANISM
The CSR activities of the Company are governed by the CSR, Safety The Company has adopted a Whistleblower Policy and Vigil
and Sustainability Committee of the Board. The Corporate Social Mechanism to provide a formal mechanism to the Directors,
Responsibility Policy (‘CSR Policy’) approved by the Board guides employees and its stakeholders to report their concerns about
in designing CSR activities for improving quality of life of society unethical behaviour, actual or suspected fraud or violation of the
and conserving the environment and bio-diversity in a sustainable Company’s Code of Conduct. Protected disclosures can be made by
manner. a whistleblower through several channels. The policy provides for
The Company has adopted a participatory approach in designing need adequate safeguards against victimisation of employees who avail of
based CSR programs which are implemented through Tata Chemicals the mechanism and also provides for direct access to the Chairman of
Society for Rural Development, Okhai Centre for Empowerment, the Audit Committee. It is affirmed that no personnel of the Company
Uday Foundation and in partnership with various government and has been denied access to the Audit Committee. The details of the
non-government institutions. The Company carried out its CSR policy are given in the corporate governance report and also posted
activities in Mithapur, Babrala, Haldia and Sriperumbudur and also on the website of the Company viz. www.tatachemicals.com.
in remotest parts of India like Sundarbans (West Bengal), Kutch
PREVENTION OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT (‘POSH’)
& Banaskantha (Gujarat), Dharni (Maharashtra), Barwani (Madhya
Pradesh), etc. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and consciously
The Company has an integrated approach to community strives to build a work culture that promotes the dignity of all
development which helps in touching all aspects of society such as employees. The Company has zero tolerance for sexual harassment
livelihood, education, health, environment and empowerment of the at workplace and has adopted a Policy on prevention, prohibition,
weaker section of the society. The Company has a special focus on and redressal of sexual harassment at workplace. This is in line with
affirmative action for inclusion of dalits and tribals. the provisions of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace
(Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 and the Rules made
The overall CSR activities of the Company have been named as
thereunder.
BEACoN which stands for Blossom, Enhance, Aspire, Conserve and
Nurture. Four complaints of sexual harassment were received during the year
for which the Company has taken appropriate actions ranging from
ʀ The Blossom programme focuses on promotion of livelihood of
minor (counselling) and major actions (termination). Mandatory
the rural artisans by supporting in establishing market linkages
of the traditional handicrafts. Okhai is the flagship program online refresher course was conducted for all white collar job and
under Blossom. more than 30 POSH classroom trainings were conducted across
locations covering permanent, contractual/third party employee/
ʀ The Enhance programme focuses on alleviation of poverty
interns.
among the rural masses by enhancing productivity of
agriculture and livestock and providing basic infrastructure The POSH committee members participated in POSH master class
support. Unnati and Pashu Palak Mitra are two very important conducted for capability building.
interventions under Enhance.
PARTICULARS OF LOANS, GUARANTEES AND INVESTMENTS
ʀ The Aspire programme targets the students of all grades
and youth who are drop-outs and looking for employment The Company has not given any loans during the year under review.
opportunities. The support is provided by improving the The details of investments made during the year are given hereunder:
quality of education in schools, providing scholarship support
Sr. Name of the Party Nature of Transaction (` in crore)
to students and imparting vocational skills to youth for a
No.
meaningful employment.
1. The Indian Hotels Investment in Equity 13.36
ʀ The Conserve programme ensures environmental conservation Company Limited Shares through rights issue
through land and water management activities, preservation 2. Ncourage Social Enterprise Investment in Equity 0.05
of bio-diversity and mitigation of climate change impacts. Foundation (Section 8 Shares
‘Dharti Ko Arpan’ is the flagship program under Conserve. company)
3. Tata Steel Limited Investment in Equity 20.33
ʀ The Nurture programmes provide healthcare, nutrition,
Shares through rights issue
sanitation and drinking water solutions to the rural masses.
4. Tata Steel Limited Investment in partly paid 3.07
The Company focusses on inclusion of marginalised population of the Equity Shares through
society especially the dalit, tribal and women in all its CSR programmes rights issue
and also responds to any disasters.
During the year under review, the Company did not provide any
The CSR Policy is available on the Company’s website at additional corporate guarantees.
http://www.tatachemicals.com/upload/content_pdf/csr-
Details of loans, guarantees and investments covered under the
policy_20161012071424.pdf.
provisions of Section 186 of the Act are given in the notes to the
The Annual Report on CSR activities is annexed as Annexure 2 to this financial statements.
report.

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