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Corporate Social Responsibility Activities

As a Company, TI’s focus has always been to touch the lives of common people through its engineered products. In line with the same, Company’s focus areas under CSR has been well grounded and rooted to reach the grass root levels and accordingly, it has been categorised into four thrust areas

Providing quality education, employment skills and overall development including., promoting Arts, Sports of the underprivileged or meritorious children. Company recognises that empowering the future generations is the key to the development of the individuals and the country.

Providing communities and marginalised sections of the society with low cost medical services. Company recognises that health is critical for the development of an individual as well as nation.

Supporting communities and regions affected by natural disasters or pandemic. Inherent to its values and ethos Company believes in extending support either in materially or monetarily to the communities or areas which are affected by natural disasters or pandemic.

In order to ensure inclusive development, Company would like to improve the lives of people living in marginalised or economically backward communities in and around its place of operations, with programmes that encompass livelihoods, education, health & sanitation and women empowerment, this includes supporting Research.

The CSR Projects covering the above four broad thrust / focus areas would be identified and conceptualised for execution through the following major categorisation

 

  1. Projects that will be identified and executed through the AMM Foundation and other benevolent entities of the Group, the Projects conceived and executed here would majorly focus mainly on education, healthcare, environment and research for developing sustainable solutions for rural applications.

  1. Projects that focus on Community Development in the areas where our business operate – The projects under this category will be identified with an intent of overall development of the local community viz., environment sustainability, livelihood, education, health & sanitation and women empowerment. This will establish long term connect with the local community and build the brand of the Company. The projects under this category would be executed either directly by the Company or through an Agency.

  1. Projects that support promotion of Sports, Arts, Culture, support for Research in premier institutes and values-based education – The projects under this category are identified with an intent of furthering the overall development of the youth, develop solutions that are critical for society and create transformational leaders. The projects under this category would be executed either directly by the Company or through an Agency.

  1. Projects that are focussing on Company’s disaster management programmes – The activities under this category will be identified based on the need of the Society, Administration and will be executed either directly or through an Agency.

Modalities for execution under each of the above four categorisations

1. Projects that are executed through the AMM Foundation and other benevolent entities of the Group

The AMM Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the Murugappa Group that was started in the year 1953 with the objective of ‘ensuring community welfare before commercial success’, by devoting itself towards the cause of education and healthcare for benefit of the society. In the field of education, the Foundation manages five schools and colleges all of which are well renowned centres of educational excellence and much sought-after institutions by the local community, providing affordable and quality education to thousands of students. The Foundation also runs four hospitals, offering quality medical services to hundreds of needy people regardless of their social or economic background. The AMM Murugappa Chettiar Research Centre, Chennai (MCRC) is a non-profit organization established in 1973. Recognised by the DSIR, Govt. of India and other key government agencies, MCRC is engaged in scientific and industrial research for developing sustainable solutions with the key focus as food, energy and environment for the development of rural India.

The following are some of the Projects that TII has been associated with:

The School is a Government aided school with English and Tamil mediums of instruction at Thiruvottiyur. The school provides quality education to the marginalized sections of the society especially the nearby fishermen community. The facilities offered are one and the best provided than those available in many private schools in that area. The fund allocated for this project will be utilised for setting up and maintaining the infrastructure, general maintenance of the school, payment of salaries of staff appointed by the management, administration expenditure etc.

The funds allocated for this project would be used for general maintenance of the hospital, future expansion cum renovation in order to accommodate the increasing number of patients and modernisation of medical facilities available at the hospital including but not limited to purchase of new/latest medical equipment.

The funds allocated for this project would be used for payment of full fee Scholarship to support poor, meritorious students pursuing Professional / Arts & Science courses in Government and Government aided colleges. The eligible students are identified based on an evaluation system and personal interview by the Foundation in consultation with the Company.

conducts research & development on Novel Applications of Natural Products for rural India that target farmers, individuals & NGO’s across the state of Tamil Nadu (Erode, Kancheepuram, Viluppuram, Sivaganga, Karur, Dindigul and Coimbatore districts).

Key research areas include:

  • Developing natural products for novel application
  • Extraction and evaluation of dyes and pigments from various natural sources
  • Continuous utilization of microbial dyeing unit for research and

2. Projects that focus on community development in the areas where we operate

TII’s Community development projects focus mainly on environment sustainability, creating livelihood, promoting education, health & sanitation and women empowerment in the communities, villages that are around our Factories and Offices.

  1. The Community or development initiative or Villages should be within a radius of 10 kilometers radius of the Company’s Factories or Offices.
  2. Backwardness in terms of the development of the Community / initiative / village based on the Needs Assessment made by Company’s Officials.
  3. Urgent or emergency support or need sought by the community / initiative.
  4. Support / requested raised by the Government Authorities.

The projects under Village / Community development are conceived with an aim to build long term connect with the communities and work on the integrated development of these villages for creating model villages. The phase wise broad development journey for development of villages will focus on:

  • Phase – 1: Basic infrastructure development like physical infra to water conservation, etc.
  • Phase – 2: work on Renewable energy projects viz., Environment protection, etc.
  • Phase – 3: Sanitation, Chid health development.
  • Phase – 4: Income generation, livelihood projects.

Therefore, these projects will have both long-term focus and short-term focus as detailed below

Long Term Focus

Short Term Focus

  • To create sustainable environment reducing carbon foot print, usage of renewable energy, plastic free village, etc.
  • Water conservation projects.

  • Build employable skills for alternate livelihood, self-employment, etc.
  • Empowering women through creation of Self-Help Groups (SHG’s).

  • Supporting health care initiatives in the community to ensure physical wellbeing by improving the infrastructure or bringing low cost medical services, etc.
  • Help Child health care projects.
  • Promotion of safe and healthy behaviors with emphasis mainly on preventive healthcare.

  • Phase-I, the focus is to improve the basic infrastructure of the school, in terms of class room, library, laboratory, sports facilities, etc.
  • Support in integrated development of Schools in terms of infrastructure, Teaching aids, pedagogy support or imparting training or coaching children for competitive exams, securing admissions to higher education, etc.

  • Develop basic infrastructure of the community based on needs assessment to create Model Villages.
  • Phase-II, the focus is on development of pedagogy and imparting / developing values.
  • Phase III, the focus is on training children on preparing for competitive exams.

  • Increasing Green cover through Tree planation drives.
  • Promoting reduced/prudent use of resources.

  • Creating open defecation free villages, health awareness, etc.
  • Enhancement of health and wellbeing among the Villagers / Communities through medical support by establishing through Medical centers / mobile medical vans, etc.

3. Projects that support promotion of Sports, Arts, Culture, support for Research in premier institutes and values-based education

TII shall nurture, promote and develop the following:

  1. Indian arts & culture or any form of art by way of sponsorship or scholarships, etc.
  2. Develop and encourage Sports including training for any competition, sponsorships, etc.
  3. Research conducted by academic institutes or research institutions into any futuristic technologies, development of cheap or alternate technology or develop solutions that are critical for society or for the benefit of general population or betterment of rural masses, farmers or marginalised sections of society.
  4. Support in construction of academic or training institutions or imparting training that would focus on furthering the dissemination of academic knowledge in various fields or dissemination of various trades, technical skills / employable skills or overall development of the youth or create transformational leaders.

4. Projects that focus on Company’s disaster management programmes

TII shall extend necessary support either monetarily or materially either directly or through an Agency or through Government to:

  • Communities or areas that are affected by natural calamities or disasters or any destruction or losses that are caused due to external aggression on the country, etc.
  • Communities or areas affected by pandemic or outbreak of any disease that is contagious or otherwise. It includes contribution to any research to contain such pandemic or disease.

Monitoring & Evaluation

TII has established a three-tier monitoring mechanism to ensure that CSR projects are effective enough to bring visible changes in the society.

At the Plant level, BU HR Heads will share their observations and reports during Quarterly Review and Planning Meetings with the Head CSR and concerned partner organization and necessary course corrective actions will be taken along with regular action plans for the subsequent Quarter.

At the Company level, the Head HR, TI Corporate shall review the progress of the CSR action plan every six months and shall monitor the progress of each of the projects that have been finalised both in terms of the quality of execution and the monetary spend and shall suggest corrective measures.

CSR progress will also be reviewed by the CSR Committee (Headed by MD) annually in addition to the review of Board Committee on CSR.

Unspent CSR Amount

If CSR expenditure is less than the amount required to be spent under CSR obligation, the Board shall specify the reasons for not spending in the Board’s report and shall deal with the unspent amount in the following manner:

  • Unspent amount pertains to ongoing projects – within 30 days from the end of the financial year such unspent to be transferred to a separate bank account to be called as ‘Unspent CSR Account’.
    • The company can open a single special account, called ‘Unspent Corporate Social Responsibility Account’, for a financial year in any scheduled bank, to transfer the unspent amount w.r.t ongoing project(s) of that financial year. The company needs to open a separate ’Unspent CSR Account’ for each financial year but not for each ongoing project.
  • Unspent amount pertains to other than ongoing projects – within 6 months from the end of the financial year such unspent should be transferred to any fund specified in Schedule VII of the Act.
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