At Tata Chemicals, sustainable growth is much more than a strategic business agenda. We have defined it as an inclusive growth charter, with strong focus on the prosperity and empowerment of the communities around which we conduct our business. This is important as the communities give us the licence to operate and impact the decisions of customers who are influenced by the Company’s reputation and social development work.
Our programme framework is aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and in line with the Tata ethos. We have set up self-sustaining enterprises for ensuring sustainability of our community development programmes.
Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is focussed on enabling development that drives sustainability and community empowerment. Our efforts are directed towards improving the scale, reach and impact of our CSR programmes.
Development that enables Sustainability and Community Empowerment
Our CSR efforts in this area are centred around enhancing livelihood for farmers, youth and artisans in rural communities.
We work closely with farmers to augment the productivity of their land and enhance their income. In FY 2022-23, we worked with 5,245 farmers on capacity-building trainings, field demonstrations, support on livestock management, supply of seeds, organic farming and agriculture equipment. Our initiatives contributed significantly to improvement in farm productivity and led to increase in the sustainable income of the farmers.
Farmers benefited by farmer outreach initiatives
Cattle covered under livestock management programmes
We engage with the youth in rural communities and support them in becoming self-reliant through various skill development interventions. These initiatives are aimed at equipping them with employable skills to get jobs or start their own enterprises.
Youth provided skill training
Artisans impacted
Sales of traditional handicrafts
Given the criticality of environment conservation to sustainable business growth, we have identified protection of biodiversity, along with water conservation and management as vital elements of our CSR approach.
People covered through Environmental projects
Mangroves planted
Whale sharks rescued
Our land development and Jal Dhan (water management and conservation) programmes in Gujarat and Maharashtra continued to benefit people in these regions during the year.
Total water harvested through Jal Dhan
Location: Tata Chemicals Mithapur Coral
Reef Restoration
Social, economic and environment indicators are the key enablers of the overall societal development, and we continue to invest in their improvement through targeted initiatives.
Healthcare is an important area of intervention for the Company, and we are committed to building a healthy community.
Women and adolescent girls treated for haemoglobin
Children screened for malnutrition
Reduction of prevalence of anaemia among women
Reduction of prevalence of stunted children under 5
Lactating mothers have positively responded to increase in consumption of essential supplements like iron and vitamins
We are running various educational programmes to improve the quality of education, ensure zero school dropouts, and focus on bridging the learning gap caused due to closure of schools during the pandemic.
Students supported
(Online Classes, Scholarships, Quality of Education: 40,159)
(Learning and Migration programme: 11,987)
We are working on community need-based infrastructure projects, and ensuring access to clean drinking water for communities.
Households provided with tap
connection in Mithapur in FY 2022-23
This is a key cross-cutting theme in all our programmes that focus on empowerment, partnerships and equity, and are incorporated with the aim of achieving long-term sustainability.
Women covered under empowerment programmes
People covered under various Affirmative Action programmes
Purchase from marginalised/ vulnerable group vendors
Ialways had a penchant for accounting and dreamt of running my own business someday. However, as I hailed from an economically marginalised family, I always thought it would remain an unrealised dream. But my association with TCL’s ‘Hun Pan’ digital programme changed that. Besides learning digital banking, I also acquired the skills to train and empower 200 other women to do online banking and other transactions.
I then went on to start Dwarkesh Foods Foundation with some of these women. I am happy to share that the Foundation is the first ever 100% women-owned and managed company in the Dwarka district.
My entrepreneurial journey has transformed my life. Today, I have my own house. My husband owns a grocery shop while I work as a Director at Dwarkesh Foods. Dwarkesh Foods Foundation takes pride in providing daily meals to TCL’s workforce at Mithapur.
My future plan is to empower 100 women by enabling them to work in the Foundation. I want to make the Foundation sustainable. And I am confident of realising this dream, too, thanks to the training and empowerment received from TCL.
Nilpaben Gosai
Director - Dwarkesh Foods Foundation & Head – Dwarkadish Mahila SHG
Interventions associated: Self Help Group (SHG), Rural Entrepreneurship Development Programme (REDP), Hun Pan Digital, Dwarkesh Foods Foundation.
