Corporate Social Responsibility Activities
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The Company has undertaken the CSR projects and programmes for Fy 2025-26 through following implementing agencies: 

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay: IIT Bombay is an autonomous institute and a deemed university, established in 1958. Research and Development (R&D) at IIT Bombay has evolved and flourished over the decades. IIT Bombay pursues foundational research leading to knowledge generation that lays the foundation for empowering India as a nation to be technologically confident and self-reliant. The Company's CSR obligations spent on the following research programme: 

• Breakthrough Research programme: The IIT Bombay Breakthrough Research Initiative is a strategic initiative aimed at fostering high-impact, frontier scientific research by empowering top faculty members with world-class resources, infrastructure, and support systems. One of the key verticals of the Breakthrough Research is Life Sciences & Bioengineering, with a special emphasis on next-generation therapeutics and affordable drug discovery. The Company supported the Breakthrough research in Life Sciences & Bioengineering. 
• Impact: The Company's support will strengthen long-term research depth and excellence, placing India on a credible ascent toward scientific breakthroughs on next-generation therapeutics and affordable drug discovery. The initiative seeks to identify, nurture, and enable a cohort of exceptional researchers who have the potential to produce transformative scientific discoveries and deep-tech innovations.

Angel Charitable Trust: Angel Charitable Trust is committed to serving the underprivileged by providing support in education, healthcare and livelihood. 

• Education & Literacy: Promoting education, including special education and employment enhancing vocational skills, especially among children, women, elderly, and the differently abled. 
• Skill Development & Livelihood: The initiative included activities such as distribution of educational materials, provision of scholarships, digital literacy training, and vocational skill development programmes tailored to local needs.
• Women Empowerment: The programme enhanced women's socio-economic status through skill development, livelihood opportunities, and awareness on health, education, and financial literacy
• Healthcare and Nutrition: The programme aimed the health and well-being of underserved communities through nutritional support, health camps, and awareness on hygiene and sanitation.
• Impact: The aforesaid programmes enhanced learning outcomes, employability, women’s. empowerment, promoting better health & nutritional outcomes for underprivileged and underserved communities.

Green Helping Foundation: Green Helping Foundation Trust works to uplift under-privileged communities through initiatives in education & literacy, health & family welfare, microfinance & SHGs, women’s development & empowerment, and skill development training across underserved regions. 

• Promoting Education: The programme strengthened educational outcomes by providing learning resources, school supplies, and digital support to students.
• Eradicating Hunger, Poverty & Malnutrition: The programme aimed at supporting underprivileged communities through distribution of food packets and essential groceries to economically weaker sections. Supporting community welfare through meal drives and basic sustenance initiatives. 
• Impact: These initiatives strengthened community-level education by increasing school participation and promoting inclusive learning opportunities. They also contributed to improving nutritional standards and reducing hunger in the target region. 

• Mobile Clinic: To deal with the issue pertaining to the poor doctor-patient ratio and alarming situation in some villages not having proper registered health clinic in 5-7 kms radius, Poonawalla Fincorp had organized a weekly mobile clinic for the poor masses and conducted around 579 health camps serving around 44000 patients across the country. These mobile clinics comprised of a qualified doctor and lab technician team to conduct basic health tests like blood pressure, BMI & blood sugar. During the Covid 19 pandemic, masks and sanitizers were also distributed to all the visiting patients through the medical camps.
• Provided emergency services to needy families during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Contribution of INR 5 Cr to PM CARES Fund during COVID-19.
• Contribution  to Grant Medical Foundation flagship multi-disciplinary hospital, Ruby Hall Clinic, based in Pune, for procurement of ​medical equipment, i.e., (i) six ventilators and (ii) one laser system CO2 Acupulse Bost, (iii) Cardiac CT scan machine to enhance its capacity to provide life-saving care through our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program relating to healthcare initiative for the underprivileged patients.

Promotion of sports in India is recognized as a CSR activity as per Schedule VII of the Companies Act, 2013. CSR efforts have focused on areas like education and healthcare, sports are now emerging as a significant area of investment. CSR in sports holds immense potential to foster national pride, youth development, and societal well-being.

Poonawalla Fincorp Limited (PFL) has engaged with Sindola Sports India Foundation, the agency which is creating an integrated Cricket, Tennis focused facility for sports man and women from the underprivileged class.

PFL has funded to the agency as a CSR contribution which was primarily spent on

• Development of the players including skill, education, temperament and values. ​
• Facility management and consultancy services to the players.​
• Training avenues for the ancillary/support functions such as ground keeping, sports management, sports reporting, etc.
• Medical assistance, sports physiotherapy, psychotherapy for players, etc.​
• Create sporting environments such as tournaments, leagues, etc.​

• Players and Coach accommodation

• In the financial year 2021, projects were undertaken to build infrastructure till setting up of digital labs to ensure modern facilities with hygiene factors in government/ trust schools in rural areas that cater to underprivileged children.
• Provided mid-day meals to nearly 6500 school kids at different government schools located in Kolkata, Nellore, Aurangabad, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Faridabad, and Delhi jointly with ISKCON Food Relief Foundation as our implementation partner for this initiative. Poonawalla Fincorp had joined hands with NGOs to provide dry rations, stationery items, and hygiene kits to marginalised kids across the country when schools were closed during the Covid19 pandemic. In FY 21, happiness kit (including dry rations, nutrition supplements, stationery, exercise books, masks & sanitisers) were distributed to 7500 students. Since 2015, 15.20 lakh mid-day meal were served touching the lives of over 33000 kids.
• Rolled out a scholarship scheme “Padhega India Tabhi Toh Aagey Badhega India” providing financial support to bright students from under-privileged families to continue to live their dream by pursuing under-graduate studies at prestigious institutes. Around 647 students enrolled in this scholarship scheme from various streams like Engineering, Medical, Humanities, Science, Commerce and Law at some of India’s best-known institutions since 2015. Most of our first batch (2015) students have completed their courses and received job offers from various Indian and overseas companies.
• Constructed toilets and changing rooms for girls at govt. school in West Bengal.
• Provided Infrastructure support to Govt. high school for boys located in Naihati, West Bengal.
• Adopted of 15 Ekal school of FTS, Contribution towards the reconstruction of an old age home in Kolkata affected by cyclone Amphan etc.

Transforming Government schools:

• Through this project Poonawalla Fincorp undertakes redevelopment program of four Government schools located in Taluka Ausa, District Latur, Maharashtra. This project will include setting up well-furnished computer labs with server room, internet facility, establishing libraries, setting up well-equipped science & technology lab, developing sports center equipped with indoor/ outdoor sports equipment, developing smart classrooms where children can sit and learn together with the help of modern technology, setting up well-equipped vital life skills training center, setting up an open gymnasium with all necessary facilities, developing/redeveloping toilets for boys and girls in schools, installing drinking water filters, providing materials for daily hygiene, painting school walls with different educational concepts, setting up a music center equipped with instruments, setting up an art gallery with drawing sheets, developing a beautiful garden of indigenous trees and flowers, installing rooftop solar system, etc.

• Deploying traffic wardens for maintaining Pune city traffic is a proactive approach taken by Poonawalla Fincorp to contribute to societal welfare. We collaborate with local authorities and deploy trained traffic wardens at critical junctions or busy areas in Pune to manage traffic flow, ensure pedestrian safety and ease congestion. Through this initiative we not only aim to enhance road safety but also align with our commitment to support the community we operate in, showcasing a responsible and civic minded approach beyond our business interest.

Highway Heroes

• One person dies every 3.5 minutes in road accidents on highways in India. The drivers’ fault accounts for 78.5% (3,81,648 accidents) of the accidents and more than 30% of the total road accident deaths are associated with trucks annually. Of the 1.5 Lac people who die due to accidents annually, most are the main bread- earners for their families (source: Report by Ministry of Road Transport & Highways).
• To improve safety standards and awareness, Poonawalla Fincorp conducted training cum health and safety programmes for the truck drivers with the help of Petroleum Conservation & Research Association, Govt of India. Till March-2021, we have conducted camps at more than 190 locations and have trained around 1.85 lakh drivers. This project was featured in the Limca Book of Records for educating the maximum number of drivers on Road Safety.

• The MSME enterprises in India require low capital cost but still serve as an engine for generating employment to promote economic growth, particularly in tribal states. The entrepreneurial success stories from the tribal dominated regions of India can help in promotion of entrepreneurship in other tribal dominated states. The available opportunities and challenges faced by these women would help in improving the MSME sector in India by encouraging women participation.
• Through this project Poonawalla Fincorp aims to understand the opportunities and challenges of tribal women entrepreneurs of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh for preparing recommendations to improve the MSME sector in India through seminars and roundtables to provide a platform to women entrepreneurs of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand to share the opportunities and challenges in the MSME sector.
• The outcomes will highlight the opportunities and challenges for women in MSME sector and the report would provide ways to increase the participation of women entrepreneurs in India’s MSME sector.

• Financial Literacy Centres (FLCs) are an important tool to push the agenda of financial inclusion forward by providing information and literacy on various financial services and products. With the fast growth of digital payment infrastructure in India, it is required to assess the performance of the FLCs.
• Through this project Poonawalla Fincorp aims to survey the FLCs of Sikkim and Haryana to understand the current status of the FLC, review and monitor mechanism of the FLC activities to understand the reasons behind poor state of financial literacy in Sikkim and Haryana.
• Based on the survey, the strengths, and weaknesses of the FLCs would be highlighted and recommendations will be made to improve the overall effectiveness of the FLCs of Sikkim and Haryana through improved digital financial literacy.

• Lead poisoning has become a major global concern. Children and pregnant women are more susceptible to the harmful effects of lead exposure. Common sources of lead exposure in India include paints, spices, recycled lead batteries, toys etc. A UNICEF study has found that nearly 275 million Indian children could have Blood Lead Levels (BLLs) beyond the permissible limit of 5 μg/dL. Lead exposure can affect the development of a child’s brain, resulting in a low intelligence quotient. It can also result in neurological and behavioural changes cardiovascular, renal diseases in adults, cause anaemia, hypertension, renal impairment, seizures, immunotoxicity and reproductive organ toxicity.
• According to Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation data, average Blood Lead Levels in Bihar are 10.42 μg/dL (over twice the WHO threshold for lead contamination i.e., 5) and over 8.15 μg/dL in Jharkhand, and hence, a need to launch a large-scale awareness campaign in Bihar and Jharkhand to fight the challenge of Lead toxicity.
• Through this project Poonawalla Fincorp aims to increase knowledge among target populations of Bihar and Jharkhand about the sources, health effects and effective strategies for reducing lead exposure and to promote social and behavioural change on the issue of lead toxicity in Bihar and Jharkhand by working in close association with local organizations of these states working in health sector.
• This awareness campaign would help in increased awareness and behavioural change to reduce Lead toxicity in the State of Bihar and Jharkhand.