Aditya Birla Group of Companies

(Corporate Social Responsibility)

Mohamed Sharique. V

• About Birla’s• Company Overview.• Corporate Social Responsibility

(CSR).• Strategy & Focus Area• Awards

• Birla Group started at 1857.• Shiv Narayan Birla started cotton trading operation in

the small town of Pilani in Rajasthan.

• Ghyanshyamdas Birla(GD Birla)--he set the

manufacturing company.

• Grandson of G.D. Birla is Aditya Vikram Birla(A.V. Birla)

• Son of A.V. Birla is Kumar Mangalam Birla(K.M. Birla)

Company Overview• A US $40 billion corporation, in the League of Fortune 500

Employee strengths 136,000 42 different nationalities

Ranked Number 4 in the global ‘Top Companies for Leaders’ survey

Over 50 per cent revenues flow from its overseas operations

Ranked Number 1 in Asia Pacific for 2011

The Group operates in 36 countries

• Our vision is –

“to actively contribute to the social and economic development

of the communities in which we operate. In so doing build a

better, sustainable way of life for the weaker sections of society

and raise the country’s human development index”.

• Reaching out to underserved communities is part of our DNA.

• Believe in the trusteeship concept.

Strategy“Give a hungry man fish for a day, he will eat it and the next day, he would be hungry again. Instead, if you taught him how to fish, he would be able to feed himself and his family for a lifetime."Focus AreaRural development activities span Five Key

• Education

• Healthcare

• Sustainable livelihood

• Infrastructure

• Espousing social causes

Education

In Education, our endeavor is to spark the desire for learning through

• Formal schools

• Balwadis for elementary education

• Quality primary education

• Aditya Bal Vidya Mandirs

• Girl child education• Adult education programmes.

Health Care• Pulse polio programme

• Mobile clinics — doctors' visits

• General and multispecialty medical camps, cleft lips

• Reproductive and child health care, mid-day meal projects

• Safe drinking water, sanitation — household toilets, community hospitals

• HIV / AIDS, cancer, TB awareness and prevention camps

• Blood donation

Sustainable Livelihood• Providing livelihood in a locally appropriate and

environmentally sustainable manner • Formation of Self Help Groups for women empowerment • Vocational training through Aditya Birla Rural Technology

Parks • Agriculture development• Watershed development• Partnership with Industrial Training Institutes.

• Housing, water and sanitation are a priority.• 50 million houses for families• Water is a perennial problem. • Sanitation and hygiene• Renewable sources of energy.

Infrastructure

Social Change

• Dowry less marriage • Widow remarriage • Awareness programmes on

anti social issues • De-addiction campaigns and

programmes • Espousing basic moral

values.

Birla Institutions• Sarala Birla

Academy

• Aditya Birla World Academy

• Aditya Birla Schools

• Aditya Birla Memorial Hospitals

CSR Awards and Recognition2014• Madura Clothing won the 2013 Golden Peacock Award for Corporate

Social Responsibility• CSR activities of Aditya Birla Group, Indian Oil, Hindustan Unilever, ACC Ltd honoured with ‘Navshakti Sanman’2012• UltraTech wins Intel-AIM Corporate Responsibility Award• Asian Centre Awards 2012 – Awards for Corporate Governance,

Sustainability & Leadership' commended the Aditya Birla Group as the 'Company with Best CSR and Sustainability Practices

2011• PADMA BHUSHAN CONFERRED ON MRS. RAJASHREE BIRLA-March

2011• Mrs. Rajashree Birla was presented the All India Management

Association (AIMA) Managing India Award 2011 for 'Corporate Citizen of the Year'.