New Delhi, 30 Aug 2021: Leading business conglomerate DCM Shriram which has a vast business portfolio comprising agri-rural business, chemical manufacturing, has spent a total of Rs 20.11 crores on different Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs in the financial year 2020-21.
The CSR spent of the company in 2020-21 was close to 11 % more as compared to the previous year. This year, the diversified group has surpassed its prescribed CSR budget as per the Companies Act 2013 a little bit by spending an excess of Rs. 3 lakhs.
During the financial year 2019-2020, the company had spent Rs. 18.45 crores as part of its CSR initiatives against a prescribed budget of Rs. 18.41 crores.
According to the company officials, DCM Shriram spent Rs. 20.11 crores in the financial year 2020-21 as part of its CSR initiatives against a prescribed budget of Rs. 20.08 crores. As per the annual reports of the company, its average net profit for the preceding three years was Rs. 1003.97 crores. Thus, the prescribed expenditure on CSR for the year 2020-21 stood at Rs. 20.08 crores.
According to the company’s annual report, the company spent more than 50 % of its CSR budget on COVID related relief activities including Rs 10 Cr towards contribution to PM CARES. Other major spent areas included:
• Promoting education, vocation skills, livelihood
• Environmental sustainability
• Rural development
DCM Shriram CSR 2020-21: A brief of CSR theme-wise spent
| SN | Project Detail | Project Theme | Location | Spent (in Rs lakh) |
| 1 | Preventive Healthcare - Mother and Child health focusing on Women’s Reproductive Health with an objective to reduce IMR (Infant Mortality Rate) and MMR (Mothers Mortality Rate). Preventive Eye care program, Training on MHM and Family Plannning | Sanitation - Shriram Swachhagrah program for schools & community. Building of Toilet blocks in Govt. schools and Individual Household Toilet Blocks | Promoting health care including Preventive healthcare and Sanitation | Distts. Lakhimpur Kheri & Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh; Kota, Rajasthan; Bharuch, Gujarat | Distts. Lakhimpur Kheri & Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh; Kota, Rajasthan; Bharuch, Gujarat | 280.00 |
| 2 | Education - Khushali Shiksha Program for improving Leaving level of students in Govt. schools. Shriram Scholarships for the students of ITIs. Vocational Skills - Khushali Rozgar program for the upliftment of rural youth and women. Running 2 Silai schools and 2 Digital Learning centers. Livelihood - Jeetega Kissan program for Agri-skilling of farmers | Promoting Education, Vocational Skills and Livelihood | Distts. Lakhimpur Kheri & Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh; Kota, Rajasthan; Bharuch, Gujarat | 209.00 |
| 3 | Khushali Paryavaran - Undertaking Water conservation through construction of tanks, check dam, dugwells, etc. Plantation and Maintenance of trees | Soil health program, Program on Bio Control of pests to reduce dependence on chemical pesticides | Environmental Sustainability | Distts. Lakhimpur Kheri & Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh; Kota, Rajasthan; Bharuch, Gujarat | Distts. Lakhimpur Kheri & Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh; Kota, Rajasthan; Bharuch, Gujarat | 145.00 |
| 4 | Rural Development - Construction / repair of village roads, school buildings, tube wells, RO Plants etc. Disaster relief, Integrated Village Development | Rural Development | Distts. Lakhimpur Kheri & Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh; Kota, Rajasthan; Bharuch, Gujarat | 122.00 |
| 5 | COVID-19 - related spend (Including Rs. 10 crores cntributed to PM CARES FUND | disaster management, including relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction activities | Lakhimpur Kheri & Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh; Kota, Rajasthan; Bharuch, Gujarat | 1165.00 |
| 6 | Overhead |
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| 90 |
In 2020-21, to combat the spread of COVID-19, the company ramped up its efforts in over 100 villages around its areas of operations through digital online messaging, thereby supporting the local administration in amplifying the efforts on prevention of the COVID -19.
DCM Shriram’s CSR works covers education, health care, agriculture/animal husbandry extension, better livelihood skills, and employment. The company's CSR initiative in villages also provides support to the education of girl children and scholarships to merit students.
DCM Shriram CSR Programmes—An Overview
Preventive Healthcare & Sanitation
Khushali Sehat, is DCM Shriram’s flagship CSR program on preventive healthcare, running since 2010. The program is undertaken in alignment with various government schemes like NURM, JSY, RKSK, and ICDS. This year, the program worked primarily towards Mother and Child health focusing on Women’s Reproductive Health with an objective to reduce IMR (Infant Mortality Rate) and MMR (Mothers Mortality Rate).
COVID-19 Relief
• Created awareness at mass level regarding COVID-19 with a message of ‘stay home, stay safe and maintain social distancing’
• Set-up ‘COVID-19 Control Rooms to ensure that migrants are sensitized. Over 2500 plus migrants were reached out and provided with a sanitation kit
• Donated 1,000 COVID- 19 sampling kits, N95 masks, surgical gloves, and masks to the Hardoi district COVID-19 control centers to help district administration control the pandemic
• Donated over 40,000 masks to Community Health Centers (CHCs) in UP made by the young girls/women of our Silai School (Vocational Skilling Program of DCM Shriram) and the families of our sugar unit employees
• Launched a pilot, across all four sugar units, supported villages with a medical teleconsultation from doctors with the help of our VLWs (Village Level Workers). Promoted teleconsultation in 44 villages in Hardoi and Lakhimpur Districts of UP
• Partnered with Akshaya Patra Foundation and distributed over 1800 POSHAN kits to malnourished adolescents, lactating mothers, and pregnant women to celebrate POSHAN Maah.
• Partnered with Tata Trusts to and spread awareness among 5620 women and 3426 girls on MHM through 1100 plus awareness sessions across 44 villages
Sanitation
DCM Shriram’s Sanitation program called ‘Shriram Swachhagrah’ was implemented in three states, Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh, in alignment with the Government of India’s Swachh Bharat Mission and supporting Swachh Vidyalaya Yojana. The company is running this program since 2014, started from the state of UP and scaled up and replicated in other districts of its operations i.e. Kota and Bharuch. The company recalibrated the Shriram Swachhagraha program post the pandemic from SLTS (School Led Total Sanitation) towards CLTS (Community-Led Total Sanitation) with a focus on ODF +, which is also phase 2 of the Swachh Bharat Mission.
Mr. Ajay S Shriram is the Chairman of the CSR Committee. Other key members include Mr. Vikram S Shriram, Mr. Ajit S Shriram, Mr. Sunil Kant Munjal, Justice (retd.) Vikramajit Sen, and Shri Pravesh Sharma.
