CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

A. Policy Objective :

Guljag Industry Limited (Hereinafter referred as ‘the Company’) is committed to conduct its business in a socially responsible, ethical and environmentally friendly manner and to continuously work towards improving quality of life of the communities.

B. Principles :

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Committee has formulated and recommended to the Board and the Board has approved aCorporate Social Responsibility Policy (CSR Policy), which outlines the Company’s strategy to bring about a positive impact on societythrough various CSR activities and programme.

C. Constitution of Corporate Social Responsibility Committee :

The Board of the Company shall constitute a CSR Committee of the Board consisting of three or more directors, out of which at least one director shall be an independent director.

The CSR Committee shall—

  • Formulate and recommend to the Board, a CSR policy and activities to be undertaken by the Company in areas or subjects, specified in Schedule VII of the Act.
  • Recommend the amount of expenditure to be incurred on the activities.
  • Monitor the CSR Policy ofthe Company fromtime to time.

The Board of the Company shall after taking into account the recommendations made by the CSR Committee, approve the CSR Policy and disclose contents of such Policy in its report and also place it on the Company’s website and ensure that the activities as are included in the CSR Policy of the Company are undertaken by the Company.

D. CSR Activities:

Pursuant to Schedule VII of the Companies Act, 2013, the Committee has approved the following activities as “CSR Activities” to be undertake under the CSR policy of the Company. The Board of Directors has reviewed the said activities and express its consent to the Committee to pursue the said activities under CSR policy of the Company under section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013, Schedule VII and other applicable rules, regulations, notifications etc., issued/to be issued from time to time.

E. Approved CSR Activities:

  • Eradicating hunger, poverty and malnutrition, promoting health care including preventive health care and sanitation including contribution to the Swach Bharat Kosh set-up by the Central Government for the promotion of sanitation and making available safe drinking water.
  • Promoting education, including special education and employment enhancing vocation skills especially among children, women, elderly and the differently abled and livelihood enhancement projects.
  • Promoting gender equality, empowering women, setting up homes and hostels for women and orphans; setting up old age homes, day care centres and such other facilities for senior citizens and measures for reducing inequalities faced by socially and economically backward groups.
  • Ensuring environmental sustainability, ecological balance, protection of flora and fauna, animal welfare, agroforestry, conservation of natural resources and maintaining quality of soil, air and water including contribution to the Clean Ganga Fund set-up by the Central Government for rejuvenation of river Ganga.
  • Protection of national heritage, art and culture including restoration of buildings and sites of historical importance and works of art; setting up public libraries; promotion and development of traditional art and handicrafts;
  • Measures for the benefit of armed forces veterans, war widows and their dependents;
  • Training to promote rural sports, nationally recognised sports, paralympic sports and olympic sports
  • Contribution to the prime minister's national relief fund or any other fund set up by the central govt. for socio economic development and relief and welfare of the schedule caste, tribes, other backward classes, minorities and women;
  • Contribution to incubators or research and development projects in the field of science, technology, engineering and medicine, funded by the Central Government or State Government or Public Sector Undertaking or any agency of the Central Government or the State Government.
  • Contributions to public funded Universities; Indian Institute of Technology (IITs); National Laboratories and autonomous bodies established under Department of Atomic Energy (DAE); Department of Biotechnology (DBT); Department of Science and Technology (DST); Department of Pharmaceuticals; Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH); Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and other bodies, namely Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO); Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR); Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR) and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), engaged in conducting research in science, technology, engineering and medicine aimed at promoting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
  • Rural development projects
  • Slum area development
  • Disaster management, including relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction activities.
  • any other measures with approval of the Board on the recommendation of CSR Committee subject to the provisions of Section 135 of the Act and the rules made thereunder, as amended from time to time.

F. Budget for CSR Activity& CSR Expenses:

The Company shall allocate the budget for CSR activities. The minimum budgeted amount for a financial year shall be 2% of the average net profit of three immediate preceding financial years. The Company may allocate more fund/amount than the amount prescribed under section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013, for the CSR activities for any financial year. The Committee shall calculate the total fund for the CSR activities and recommend to the Board for the approval. The Board shall approve the total fund to be utilized for CSR activity for respective financial year. CSR expenditure shall include all expenditure including contribution to corpus for projects or programs relating to CSR activities approved by the Board on the recommendation of its CSR Committee, but does not include any expenditure on an item not in conformity or not in line with activities which fall within the approved CSR activities.

G. Identification of activities/projects:

Out of approved CSR activities, the Committee shall decide which activity/project should be given priority for the respective financial year. While arriving at the decision of the activity to be undertaken for the respective year, the Committee shall analyse the basic need of the community/ area in which the Organisation operates or at the place where its registered office is situated. The Committee shall record its findings and prioritised the CSR activities.

H. Monitoring by the Board:

The Board of Directors shall constantly monitor the implementation of the CSR activities. The CSR committee shall place a progress report, including details of expenses, before the Board. The Board shall review the same and suggest recommendation, if any, to the committee with regards to implementation process.

I. Compliance and Reporting to Board:

The Committee is responsible to undertake CSR activities as per the approved CSR Policy. A detail report containing the implementation schedule, total budget allocated, actual expenses incur, surplus arising, if any, result achieved, further work to do in the concern CSR activity, Recommendation for the CSR activities for next year etc. should be placed before the Board for its consideration. Any surplus arising out of the fund allocated for CSR activity shall not be the part of the business profit of the Company.