Understanding mandatory provisions of Corporate Social Responsibility

and study of CSR Major Projects of HPCL under focus area Education

A project submitted to

University of Mumbai for partial completion of the degree of

Master in Commerce

Under the faculty of Commerce

By

Ms. Naroise Zakir

Under the guidance of

Prof. Anjali V

HR College of Commerce and Economics

November 2017

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Understanding mandatory provisions of Corporate Social Responsibility
and study of CSR Major Projects of HPCL under focus area Education

A project submitted to

University of Mumbai for partial completion of the degree of

Master in Commerce

Under the faculty of Commerce

By

Ms. Naroise Zakir

Under the guidance of

Prof. Anjali V

HR College of Commerce and Economics

November 2017

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This is to certify that Ms. Naroise Zakir has worked and duly completed her Project
Work for the degree of Master in Commerce under the Faculty of Commerce in the
subject Corporate Social Responsibility and her project is entitled “Understanding
mandatory provisions of Corporate Social Responsibility and study of CSR Major
Projects of HPCL under focus area Education” under my supervision.

I further certify that the entire work has been done by the learner under my guidance
and that no part of it has been submitted previously for any Degree and Diploma of any
University.

It is her own work and facts reported by her personal findings and investigation

Prof Anjali V

Date of Submission: October 14, 2017

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 Declaration by learner

I the undersigned Miss Naroise Zakir here by, declare that the work embodied in this
project work titled Understanding mandatory provisions of Corporate Social
Responsibility and study of CSR Major Projects of HPCL under focus area Education

forms my own contribution to the research work carried out under the guidance of Prof
Anjali V is a result of my own research work and has not been previously submitted to
any other University for any other Degree/ Diploma to this or any other University.

Wherever reference has been made to previous works of others, it has been clearly
indicated as such and included in the bibliography.

I, here by further declare that all information of this document has been obtained and
presented in accordance with academic rules and ethical conduct.

November 5, 2017

Naroise Zakir

Certified by

Prof Anjali V

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 Acknowledgment

To list who all have helped me is difficult because they are so numerous and the depth
is so enormous.
I would like to acknowledge the following as being idealistic channels and fresh
dimensions in the completion of this project.
I take this opportunity to thank the University of Mumbai for giving me chance to do
this project.
I would like to thank my Principal, Prof Parag Thakkar for providing the necessary
facilities required for completion of this project.
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I would also like to express my sincere gratitude towards my project guide Prof Anjali
V whose guidance and care made the project successful.
I would like to thank my College Library, for having provided various reference books
and magazines related to my project. I would like to thank Ms Kritika Kulshrestha who
has been my guide at Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited and helped me to learn
the CSR concepts, Acts, Rules and various projects undertaken by HPCL.

Lastly, I would like to thank each and every person who directly or indirectly helped
me in the completion of the project especially my Parents and Peers who supported me
throughout my project.

November 05,2017

Naroise Zakir

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 INDEX

Chapter :1.0: Executive Summary Page 7-9

Chapter :2.0: Introduction of the Company Page 9-15

Chapter :3.0: Corporate Social Responsibility Page 15-16

Mandatory CSR in India Page 16

Companies Act 2013: Section 135 Page 17

CSR Rules 2014 Page 19-27

Schedule VII of Companies Act 2013 Page 27

Chapter 4.0: CSR Policy of HPCL Page 28-32

Compliance to Co Act 2013 Page 33-34

Chapter 5.0 HPCL CSR and Expenditure Page 35-40

Chapter 6.0: HPCL CSR Expenditure in Education Page 41

Study HPCL CSR Major projects in Education Page 41-52

Chapter 7.0: My role in the organization during the internship: Page 53

Chapter 8.0: Challenges Page 54
Chapter 9.0: Conclusion Page 54-55

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1.0 : Executive Summary:

The term CSR seem to have come under focus and spotlight in last 2/3 decades as
Businesses strive to navigate todays risk and opportunity to create greater economic,
social and environmental values while the social and environmental challenges mount.
Though its existence and practices go back to history, CSR has been active amongst
social activists, academicians, business world, government, non-government, civil
society, community for last 5/6 decades. As such at times it is termed as Post World
war II development. However, till date there is no consensus meaning of CSR because
of its ubiquitous presence. There exists wide meanings and different understanding of
the term even among CSR professionals, practitioners. The most commonly used
definition has been that of World Council of CSR and Sustainable Development
(WCCSD). It defines CSR as continuing commitment of business to behave ethically
and contribute to economic development while improving quality of life of the
workforce and their families as well as local community and society at large. India
became the first and lone country in the world to have mandated corporate social
responsibility among certain companies with effect from 2014-15. The details
mentioned in section 135 of the Co Act 2013 becomes the law and guiding principles
of Corporate Social Responsibility in India. The definition of CSR in India according
to the Act thus differs somehow from the ubiquitous presence and meaning of the term.
During the study an attempt has been made to understand all the five points raised in
section 135 of the companies Act 2013 and CSR rules 2014, promulgated to make the
process of implementation smooth. The Definition, CSR activities, CSR Committee,
CSR policy, CSR expenditure, CSR reporting format and list of activities as provided
in schedule VII of the Act were reviewed.

With the above familiarization the CSR practices that followed in Hindustan Petroleum
Corporation Limited were compared to understand the status of implementation of the
Act. Before undertaking the activity, the back ground genesis and details of Hindustan
Petroleum with respect to its business products presence assets and infrastructure were
reviewed after collecting information from website as well as with discussion with

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Project Guide from CSR department of the corporation. After getting acquainted with
the company an attempt was made to find the details of the Board level directors various
governance process followed by the company. Accordingly, after reviewing various
website details the strength, weakness opportunity and threat analysis (SWOT) analysis
of the organization was reviewed. The tag line brand implication unique selling
proposition and the details of the organization was also segmentation, target group
and positioning (STP) were also reviewed.

The CSR policy of the corporation was also reviewed to understand the process
followed by the corporation and its sync with the Companies Act. A comparative
analysis of the provision of the act and the details available in the CSR policy and
practices followed at the company was made. It was observed that in terms of the broad
parameters of the policy such as Governance, involvement of Top management in
formulation of policy allocation of funds identifying programme, projects, activities
provided in schedule VII, execution monitoring and spending the allocated amount and
finally reporting all details in prescribed format as annual report and most importantly
putting all details in the public domain the CSR policy and activities in Hindustan
Petroleum Corporation Limited appeared to be in consonance with the requirement of
Section 135 of Companies Act 2013 and the rules formulated thereafter.

CSR activities of the company was reviewed in details in terms of its annual CSR spent
in last three years. Interaction with the guide and other members of the CSR department
also helped in understanding various focus areas and spent in these areas. It was
observed that Corporation gives special thrust to the education for the marginalised
section of the society. Accordingly, a detailed study was conducted on all the major and
long term CSR projects undertaken by the corporation in the focus area education. The
five major projects focused and identified different target groups to provide different
service deliveries. For Example the project ADAPT(Able Disable all people together)
attempted to provide educational and therapeutic need of differently abled children in
Mumbai whereas Agastya ( Science Laboratory) aimed at promoting science among
children of government school particularly from marginalised section. Akshay Patra
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aimed at supplementing government efforts in providing midday meal in school by
making it more hygienic nutritious and serving it hot to mitigate the school drop out in
view of prevailing hunger. Nanhi Kali on the other hand aimed at providing holistic
development of First generation school going mostly tribal Girl children. It envisaged
material support, educational support and social support by involving all stake holders
including students’ parent’s community and teachers and providing material and
educational and life skill to the girl children. Keeping in view the government’s
initiative in digital India and to propagate computer education project Unnati targeted
students in semi urban area where in computer lab are set up by providing equipment
(PC) and special teachers teach the students as well as the teachers of the school the
basics of computers and internet. To make the programme sustainable the old teachers
take up the teaching of new students.

It was observed that HPCL contribute immensely to the basic and primary education
area and address the requirement of children from marginalised section of society
mostly in and around their working locations. Some of the case studies show that there
has been greater outcome and impacts in the lives of the children and their family who
have successfully taken up employment and livelihood generation activity to support
the family.

2.0: Introduction of the Company:

HPCL is a Central Public Sector Enterprise (Government of India Enterprise) under the
ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and has a Navratna Status. It is the fourth largest
company in India in terms of turnover and also figures in the list of Forbes 2000 and
Global Fortune 500 company. It had originally been incorporated as a company under
the Indian Companies Act 1913. Its main business is (a) Refining of crude petroleum
in its refineries to produce various petroleum products including base stock that is
required for manufacturing lubricating oil and grease and (b) Distribution and
Marketing of Petroleum Products in the length and breadth of the country and also
abroad. Its products include Motor Fuels (Petrol /Diesel/Compressed natural Gas)
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Domestic Fuels (Liquefied Petroleum gas/ kerosene Oil), Industrial Fuels (Diesel Oil
of various specification /Furnace Oil/ Natural Gas), Aviation Fuels (Aviation Turbine
Fuel). In addition, it markets various special products required for multiple usage by
industries. It also manufactures various types of Lubricating oil and Grease required for
industries, defense, railways, road and water transport, virtually for all purposes. It has
also business interest in exploration of crude Oil (petroleum), Wind Energy,
petrochemicals. The company is listed both in Bombay Stock exchange (BSE) and
National Stock Exchange (NSE), India. Government of India has more than 50% share
or ownership.

HPCL owns & operates two major refineries producing a wide variety of petroleum
fuels & specialties, one in Mumbai (capacity 7.5 Million Metric Tons Per Annum) and
the other in Visakhapatnam, that has a capacity of 8.3 MMTPA. HPCL has the largest
Lube Refinery in the country, with a capacity of 428 Thousand Metric Ton per annum.
HPCL has a joint venture refinery with 9 MMTPA capacity at Bathinda, Punjab. It also
owns approximately 16.95% in the 15 MMTPA Mangalore Refinery and
Petrochemicals Ltd. (MRPL).

HPCL has product pipelines network of more than 3370 kms for transportation of
petroleum products across the length and breadth of the country and a wide spread
marketing network consisting of 13 Zonal offices and 106 Regional Offices in various
cities and towns. It has also huge infrastructure such as product storage and handling
Terminals, Pipeline networks, Aviation Service Stations, LPG Bottling Plants, Inland
Relay Depots & Retail Outlets (petrol Pumps), Lubricating oil /Grease and LPG
Distributorships.

It has over 11,000 employees working all over India at its various refining and
marketing locations.

HPCL has committed to achieve economic, ecological & social responsibility

objectives of sustainable development through varied operations and activities. In
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addition, HPCL undertakes various sustainable development initiatives and Corporate
Social responsibility initiatives through its dedicated Sustainability and CSR
departments.

HPCL’s CSR focus areas are in the fields of Child Care, Education, Health Care, Skill
Development & Community Development, touching lives of weaker section of society.
Under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan as of Mar’17, HPCL has constructed 490 new
toilets at retail outlets and 1,436 new toilets at Schools under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
initiated by Govt. of India for creating a Clean India. The overall spend on

Its registered and corporate office is in Mumbai at following address:

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited. Petroleum House,17, Jamshedji Tata Road,
Mumbai 400020, Maharashtra, India., Email: corphqo (at) hpcl [dot] in

Genesis of the Company:

1952: On July 5, 1952 The Company was incorporated in the name of Standard
Vacuum Refining Company of India Limited
1962: The was subsequently changed to ESSO Standard Refining Company of India
Limited On 31st March,1962
1974: Esso Standard and Lube India Limted were taken over merged and Hindustan
Petroleum Corporation Limited comes into being
1976/1977: Caltex Oil Refining (India) Ltd. - CORIL was taken over by the
Government of India and merged with HPCL.
1979: Kosan Gas Company, was taken over and merged with HPCL.
HPCL thus comes into being after merging four different organizations at different
points of time. It has rich past of private and public existence.

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Statement and Objectives:

HPCL Vision:
To be a World Class Energy Company known for caring and delighting the customers
with high quality products and innovative services across domestic and international
markets with aggressive growth and delivering superior financial performance. The
Company will be a model of excellence in meeting social commitment, environment,
health and safety norms and in employee welfare and relations.
HPCL Mission
"HPCL, along with its joint ventures, will be a fully integrated company in the
hydrocarbons sector of exploration and production, refining and marketing; focusing
on enhancement of productivity, quality and profitability; caring for customers and
employees; caring for environment protection and cultural heritage.

It will also attain scale dimensions by diversifying into other energy related fields and
by taking up transnational operations."

Board of Directors:

Mr. M.K. Surana: Chairman and Managing Director

Mr. P K Joshi: Director- Human Resources
Mr. Ramaswamy: Director –Finance
Mr. S Jeyakrishnan: Director – Marketing
Mr. Vinod S Shenoy: Director – Refineries
Top
Part-time ex-officio Directors
Ms. Urvashi Sadhwani - Director
Mr. Sandeep Poundrik: Director

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Independent Directors
Shri Amar Sinha
Mr. Siraj Hussain
Shri Ram Niwas Jain
Smt. Asifa Khan
Shri G.V. Krishna
Dr. T.N. Singh

Governance:

Thus it can be seen that HPCL is managed by full time functional directors who are the
employee of the corporation, ex-officio directors nominated by Government and
independent directors.

In addition, the company has a code of conduct for its employees both for executive
and nonexecutive employees. It has implemented Right to Information Act and a well-
established grievance redressal set up. It also has a full-fledged vigilance department
that keeps surveillance and suggest improvement in system and processes. It has
implemented integrity pact. It has also adopted Global Compact by voluntarily
disclosing action initiated in the area of Human Rights Labor, Environment and anti-
Corruption

SWOT Analysis:

The strength weakness opportunity and threat analysis of Hindustan Petroleum

Corporation Limited as observed from mbaskool.com is appended below. It shows
Unique selling proposition, segment target group and positioning with tagline.

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Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL)

Category Oil & Gas

Sector Energy

Tagline/ Future Full of Energy,

Slogan

USP HPCL has got a strong marketing structure among other PSUs

HPCL STP

Segment Corporates, countries, individuals looking to fulfill energy needs

Target Group Enterprises looking for energy for production, people for petrol diesel
for vehicles and domestic uses

Positioning HPCL is working for fulfilling the energy needs of India

HPCL SWOT Analysis

Strengths 1. HPCL is one of India’s leading Oil and gas company

2. Hindustan Petroleum owns largest Lube refinery in
India producing Lube Base Oils of international standard.
3. Large product portfolio including oil, natural gas, lubricants etc
4. More than 11,000+ people are employed with HPCL
5. HPCL has refineries in Mumbai, Vishakapatnam, Mangalore,
Bhatinda
6. New Refinery planned in Barmer Rajasthan Ratnagiri Maharashtra
7. Strong backing of the Indian government gives it financial stability

Weaknesses 1. Intense competition from other PSU's and international oil

companies means limited market share
2. Government intervention often disrupts operations efficiency

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Opportunities 1. HPCL can tap the increasing fuel/oil prices and increase margins
2. Increasing demand for natural gas in transport and industries.
3. HPCL can focus on partnerships and international growth to
expand export market
4. Acquisition and tie-ups to strengthen its market position

Threats 1. Government regulations can affect HPCL's performance

2. High Competition from other players
3. Fluctuating market and crude prices can reduce profitability for
HPCL

3.0: Corporate Social Responsibility:

CSR Definition
The most commonly used definition has been that of World Council of CSR and
Sustainable Development (WCCSD). It defines CSR as continuing commitment of
business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving
quality of life of the workforce and their families as well as local community and society
at large. There has been various definition of CSR. Since it broadly encompasses
Business ethics and morality, Corporate accountability, Corporate citizenship,
Corporate management, Environmental responsibility, Human rights & Labor rights,
Responsible buying and supply chain management, Socially responsible investment,
Stakeholder engagement Sustainability, Philanthropy etc. Focus on any of the
parameters can tilt the definition and meaning. The European Commission has defined
CSR as the responsibility of enterprises for their impact on society. CSR should be
company led. Public authorities can play a supporting role through a smart mix of
voluntary policy measures and, where necessary, complementary regulation. (European
Commission, 2016). The definition of CSR by European Commission reinforces the
belief that where voluntary process fail regulatory process has to step in.
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CSR in India:
Many Indian business house have immensely contributed to social and environmental
causes in addition to their economic development and fiduciary responsibilities. Charity
by business houses before industrialization was mostly philanthropic, driven by
religious belief such as Daan (Hindu), Zakat (Muslim), Seva (Sikh) and was confined
to one’s own community, caste, religion. Post industrialization, Indian corporates were
engaged in various philanthropic activities which however were also person, location
specific, adhoc and ameliorative and were neither, inclusive substantial nor
institutionalized.

Indian parliament enacted Companies Act 2013 replacing Companies Act 1956 where
in as per Section 135, companies falling under its set criterion are to Comply or (The
Gazatte of India, 2013). The gazette notification is appended below. While various
governance issues including constitution of board level committee, finalization of CSR
policy and involvement of apex management etc. are mandated, the failure to report
CSR spending or the reasons for not spending shall amount to contravention of
Companies Act, and the company shall be punishable with fine and the officer who is
in default shall be punishable with imprisonment or with fine or both. In the financial
terms every company, private limited or public limited, which either has a net worth of
Rs 500 crore or a turnover of Rs. 1,000 crore or net profit of Rs 5 crore, needs to spend
at least 2% of its average net profit for the immediately preceding three financial years
on corporate social responsibility activities.

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This led to a great revolution in the area of CSR in the largest democracy, India, making
it the only country to make CSR mandatory though the debate for this act of making
responsibility as accountability/ mandatory still continues.

Indian CSR as per Co Act 2013

CSR is a way of conducting business by which corporate entities in India can
conscientiously contribute to social and environmental good for the nation. As per the
CSR rules 2(c ) under Companies Act 2013 published on 29-03-2014, "Corporate
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Social Responsibility (CSR)" means and includes but is not limited to (The Gazatte of
India, 2013):
 Projects or programs relating to activities specified in Schedule VII to the Act
or
 Projects or programs relating to activities undertaken by the board of directors
of a company (Board) in pursuance of recommendations of the CSR Committee
of the Board as per declared CSR policy of the company subject to the condition
that such policy will cover subjects enumerated in Schedule VII of the Act.

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After publishing these CSR rules in order to facilitate smooth implementation Government of India
(Ministry of Corporate Affairs) has published various clarification and also enhanced the scope of
Schedule VII by including new items. Activities as mentioned in Schedule VII are detailed below:
Schedule VII:

1. Eradicating hunger, poverty and malnutrition, promoting health care including preventive
health care and sanitation including contribution to the Swachh Bharat Kosh set-up by the
Central Government for the promotion of sanitation and making available safe drinking
water.
2. Promoting education, including special education and employment enhancing vocation
skills especially among children, women, elderly and the differently abled and livelihood
enhancement projects.
3. 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;
4. 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;
5. 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 arts and handicrafts;
6. measures for the benefit of armed forces veteran, war widows and their dependents;
7. Training to promote rural sports nationally recognized sports and Olympic sports;
8. Contribution to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund or any other fund set up by the
Central Government for socio-economic development and relief and welfare of the
Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, other backward classes, minorities and women;
9. contributions or funds provided to technology incubators located within academic
institutions which are approved by the Central Government;
10. Rural development projects

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4.0 : CSR Policy of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation:

In line with Co Act 2013 HPCL developed a CSR policy which was recommended by CSR
Committee and approved by Board of Directors. The Policy as well as the members of CSR
committee have already been published in the website of the company. Many other relevant details
including the expenditure made by the company towards CSR activities are also available in the
website.

The policy is appended below:

A. Background
With effect from April 1, 2014, every company, private limited or public limited, which
either has a net worth of Rs 500 crore or a turnover of Rs.1,000 crore or net profit of Rs 5
crore, needs to spend at least 2% of its average net profit for the immediately preceding three
financial years on corporate social responsibility activities. The CSR activities should not be
undertaken in the normal course of business and must be with respect to any of the activities
mentioned in Schedule VII of the 2013 Act.

B. CSR Policy
I. CSR Objectives
1. HPCL will focus its CSR activities on local communities around which the
Company lives and operates like Refineries, Terminals, Depots, LPG Plants,
Pipelines, Aviation Stations, Lube Blending Plants, Project locations and other
offices, etc. HPCL is committed to allocate at least 60% of the CSR Budget for
these local communities.

2. HPCL will implement CSR activities to empower weaker, less privileged and
marginalized sections of the society to create Social Capital.

II. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

a. CSR Committee

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 Corporation will have a Board Level Sub-Committee herein after referred to as
CSR Committee consisting of three or more Directors out of which at least one
shall be an Independent Director.

The role / responsibilities of the CSR Committee include:

1. Formulate and recommend to the Board, a Corporate Social Responsibility
Policy which shall indicate the activities to be undertaken by the company
as specified in Schedule VII of the Companies Act 2013.

2. Recommend the amount of budgeted expenditure to be incurred on the

activities referred to in clause (1) above.

3. Monitor the Corporate Social Responsibility Policy of the company from

time to time.

4. Institute a transparent monitoring mechanism for implementation of the CSR

projects/programs/activities.

5. Monitor implementation of CSR activities on quarterly basis.

6. Approve programs / projects / activities with monetary value of Rs.70 Lakhs

and above in each case.

7. Approve projects/programs/activities of any value which are outside

HPCL’s focus areas.

b. CSR Council:
Members of the CSR Council:
Chairman: Director HR,
Members : ED–HRD, ED–Retail, ED–LPG, ED–O&D, ED–P&P, ED–HSE,
ED-MR and Head CSR

The role / responsibilities of the CSR Council include:

1. Suggest CSR activities to CSR Department which align with Corporate
Vision

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midcourse corrections, if any.

c. CSR Management Committee

Members of CSR Management Committee
Chairman: Director HR,
Members: ED – HRD, Functional SBU Head / ED RCD (for Mktg. /Ref
proposals resp.), Head – CSR, GM – Corp. Finance, Chief Manager – CSR
(Secretary)

The role / responsibilities of the CSR Management Committee include

1. Review the proposals for CSR projects/programs/activities received from
various locations.

2. Approve proposals of value between Rs.40 lakhs and Rs.70 lakhs against
approved allocated budget.

d. CSR Working Committee

Members of CSR Working Committee:

Chairman: Head - CSR

Members: Head – HR Mktg, DGM Sustainability, Chief/Senior Manager Corp
Finance, Chief Manager - CSR (Secretary)

The role/responsibilities of the CSR Working Committee include:

1. Review the proposals for CSR projects / programs / activities received from
various locations.

2. Approve proposals of value less than Rs.40 lakhs against approved allocated
budget.

III. CSR Focus area Projects / Programs / Activities:

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. The corporation’s CSR focus areas are inspired from national developmental
policies and international commitments of nation for development of children,
women and weaker sections. HPCL CSR focus areas are based on inspiration from
legislations on Child Rights, Child Development and Education, National Health
Policy and National Health Missions, Health Care in India- Vision 2020, National
Skill Development Mission, and policies on community rural development.

All projects/programs/ activities will be in the areas of:

1. Child Care

2. Education

3. Health Care

4. Skill Development

5. Sports

6. Environment & Community Development

a. Detailed break up of projects/programs activities under each of these will be

approved in line with the Limits of Authority Manual.

b. Any projects/programs activities in areas other than the above will be taken with
the approval of CSR Committee.

c. These projects/programs/activities shall be undertaken at any of the following:

1. The Local development plan of HPCL which is in proximity to HPCL

operation areas/locations

2. In BRGF (Backward Region Grant Fund) districts as identified by Planning

Commission.

3. Where there is a strategic connect for HPCL.

Not less than 60% of the budget will be spent for the community in and around
HPCL locations.

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 d. CSR projects / programs / activities will be implemented through implementing
partners/specialized agencies. The minimum eligibility criteria of an
implementing partner are as follows:

1. It must be a registered society, trust, company or any specialized agency

having minimum three years of experience post registration in handling
activities of similar nature.

2. Experience of working with any Government Body or Public Sector

Enterprise will be preferred.

However, the selection authority can request any other qualification on a

mandatory basis from the applicants while selecting the implementing partners.

IV. FINANCIAL RESOURCES

. Annual CSR Budget:
In alignment with The Companies Act, 2013 the corporation shall earmark as CSR
Budget, at least 2% of the average of net profits of the company made during the
three immediately preceding financial years.
a. Budgetary Allocations

1. Not less than 60% of the Budget will be allocated for activities in a Project
mode.

2. Not more than 5% of the budget will be allocated for capacity building and
communications.

3. Balance budget will be for one time and Other Social Activities.

On an overall basis, at least 25% of the budget should be with a special focus on
SC/ST/Welfare Plan for Weaker Section.

Any surplus arising out of the CSR projects/programs / activities will not form
part of the business profit of the Company.

V. Monitoring

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1. CSR Committee on quarterly basis.

2. CSR Council on quarterly basis.

a. In addition to the above, at the end of the year, Third Party Impact Assessment of
major projects will be carried out.

Status of Co Act 2013 implementation at HPCL:

During the internship at HPCL, got acquainted with the provisions of Section 135 of Co
Act 2013, CSR Rules 2014 and the contents of the list of Schedule VII. A study was
undertaken about the status of implementation of all the in the CSR activities of the
company. The observations are recorded here with.

Compliance Status of Co Act 2013 at Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited

S.No. Provision Of Act Status of HPCL Remarks
1 Companies to have a Board Committee of 6 independent Complied
at least 3 directors of which at least 1 is directors and 3
independent director – Sec 135(1) functional directors as
permanent invitees
2 Board Report to disclose the composition Done from 2014-15 Complied
of the Committee Sec 135 (2)
3 Responsibility of the Committee a. Formulated and Complied
a. Formulate & recommend to the Board recommended
a CSR policy indicating activities b. Amt
undertaken as in Sch VII recommended
b. Recommend the amt of expenditure c. Being monitored
c. Monitor the policy
Sec 135 (3)
4 Board to approve the policy & disclose in Already done in 2014 Complied
its report & place it on web site. and available on
website.
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policy Sec 135 (4)

5 2% of avg profits after tax of 3 preceding In last three years Complied

financial years more than 2% of
Sec 135 (5) average net profit of
preceding three years

6 Preference to activities in local areas Included in policy. As per policy

Sec 135
7 Board may decide to undertake activities Included in policy. As per policy
thru registered trust or registered society
or registered company under section 8
a. This entity to have a track record of 3
years in similar programs
b. Projects/programs to be undertaken
thru these entities to be specified with
a monitoring and reporting
mechanism in place

Rule 4(2)
8 Projects and programs that benefit only Included in policy. As per policy
the employees or families not considered
as CSR
Rule 4(5)
9 Expenditure on capacity building for Included in policy. As per policy
employees or implementing partners for
CSR limited to 5% of CSR expenditure
Rule 4(6)
10 Policy to include Overall projects As per policy
a. List of CSR projects/programs should programmes are
be in line with Schedule VII included
specifying modalities, execution and
implementation schedules
Rule 4(6)(1)(a)(b)
11 Activities specified in Schedule VII HPCL focus areas: As per policy
(copy attached) a. Child care and
education
including special
education – Point
1 ii of Sch VII
b. Health care –
Point 1 i of Sch
VII

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 c. Skill development
- Point 1 ii of Sch
VII
d. Livelihood
enhancement
projects - Point 1 ii
of Sch VII

5.0 HPCL CSR:

From the web details and annual report of HPCL it is observed that the company believes in
“Creating Shared Values", by reaching out to the stakeholders, community and society who are
directly or indirectly involved in its business operations. HPCL believes that business and society
are interdependent and success of one depends on the progress of other. Intervention models which
have the potential to sustain its outcomes and create a long-term impact on not only the beneficiary,
but also on the root social factors, are aimed while implementing CSR activities. Company has
also identified six focus area stating that all the projects/programs/ activities will be undertaken in
the following areas to make difference to the underprivileged:

1. Child Care

2. Education

3. Health Care

4. Skill Development

5. Sports

6. Environment & Community Development

Rather than creating parallel system HPCL endeavors to intervene meaningfully to the existing
system of delivery to the society particular to find out gap and mitigate them with resource
allocation. Some of the salient observation as noted after interaction with my project guide at
HPCL and referring to various documents are provided below:

 Child Care and Education

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HPCL has been investing in the area of child care and education as it believes that has multiple
impact over prolonged period in the society. As such HPCL spends most of its CSR budget in the
area of childcare and education. HPCL attempts to understand and identify the root causes of
social problems that impede the process of education for all particularly that of girl child. It has
adopted Project Nanhi Kali through its partner K C Mahindra Education Trust that encourages girl
child education and is building gender equality among communities in remote rural areas. The
project aims to bring first generation learners from remotely located tribal villages to mainstream
education by providing material support social support and educational guidance. The social
barriers of education for girls are removed through constant engagement at family and village level
and a support network for girl child is created which enables her to start and continue her education.
Bal Panchayats and Nanhi Kali Clubs has boosted the confidence level of the girl child and they
are able to stand and speak at various forums. 12000 Girls from Araku (Andhra Pradesh), and
Gavanpada (Mumbai) were supported in the year 2016-17.

Through Project Akshaya Patra HPCL is bridging the gap by providing hygienic and nutritious
mid-day meals to students of schools at Visakhapatnam. The intervention through this program
has resulted in higher enrolments and negligible drop-outs from schools. 12585 children have been
provided Mid-Day Meals in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh in the vicinity of Visakh Refinery of
HPCL.

To give boost to computer education and e-literacy HPCL, has partnered with specialized agencies
to provide computer awareness, basic education and internet exposure to first generation computer
learners of Class VI to Class IX in semi-urban and rural areas under its CSR Project Unnati.
Beyond just providing classroom-teaching, the sustainability of the project is also ensured by
following the “Training the Trainer” model wherein the school teachers are also trained and the
teachers as well as the old students undertake the teaching of new students. In addition, a computer
lab is established at each of these schools by providing new computers and other facilities. These
facilities are then become the properties of the school where training is imparted on sustained basis
to ensure continued computer education in these schools. 6000 students in the rural and semi urban
schools have been trained in basic computers in the year 2016-17.

Self-dependency in all aspects of lives of Children with Special Needs (CwSN) is the objective for
which HPCL CSR makes effort. The critical importance of inclusion of CwSN through state of art

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therapies and special education facilities are taken care by HPCL through project ADAPT. 300
Children across the city of Mumbai were provided support in an inclusive environment. With the
aim to bring equality to the lives of Persons with Disability HPCL through this program supports
the Inclusive Education, therapeutic needs and vocational training of such children. The students
of these differently abled children are also involved in the process to bring in partnership so that
the therapy education also continues at home after the school hour.

Through Augusta Science laboratory efforts are made to increase the curiosity inquisitiveness and
interest towards science education among students in the government education. Mobile science
laboratories go to about 23 school covering 9548 students. Most of these students are from under
privilege section of the society.

 Health Care

To address the critical situation of health requirements and to provide basic medical facilities to
people in need at remote rural areas and far flung villages, HPCL CSR in partnership with ground-
level NGOs are running seventeen Mobile Medical Vans in states of Odisha, Bihar, Rajasthan,
Maharashtra, Jammu & Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh and Jharkhand West Bengal. These Vans
provided basic medical attention to rural populace in approx. 350 villages. Through this
partnership HPCL has ensured medical facilities at the doorsteps of villagers providing basic
treatments for common ailments, health awareness and make necessary referrals for major ailments
free of cost. The mobile medical vans have successfully treated patients in remotely located
villages lacking basic health care facilities.

The costly treatment of heart problems has taken lives of those who could not afford it. Project Dil
without Bill supported those who could not afford Heart Surgeries through their means. For them
surgeries are performed free of Cost at Sai Heart Hospital supported by HPCL. Awareness and
follow-up camps conducted at various cities and towns, during the year was also an initiative to
reach out to the neediest patients. 1100 People have been supported under Dil without Bill in the
year 2016-17.

Truckers are one of the most vulnerable link in the supply chain of any businesses and national
development process. Their occupation put them on risk of many health issues including

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HIV/AIDS. HPCL interventions through the Khushi Clinics under project Suraksha set up at 7
retail outlets on the highways to address this vulnerable section of the society.

The Khushi Clinics apart from providing basic medical facilities which are scanty at the highways,
also provide AIDS awareness, STI treatment, social marketing of condoms, counselling, etc. to
ensure the health and well-being of the truckers.

To respond to problems of prevailing Health Infrastructure, Sushrut hospital a multispecialty

hospital and charity institute at Chembur, Mumbai is being supported by HPCL. The hospital has
been providing medical care to the people in the vicinity since long.

 Skill Development

A number of students in the country drop out from regular education for various compelling
reasons which narrows their livelihood option in later part of their lives and they remain unskilled
and earn very little daily wages. At the same time there is a diverse labour demand in the country
requiring various skills. It is in line with these demands of employment as well as skills, the diverse
training in skills like electrical, welding, hospitality, driving, tailoring, beautician course, etc. are
identified and imparted to underprivileged youth in these areas through our Swavalamban
program. The module also provides other capacity building and soft skills required for these youth
to sustain their employment and earn a livelihood for themselves and their family.

The CSR activities at locations around HPCL installations have enormously contributed to
community development wherein support in health care has saved lives in rural areas, provision
of drinking water has ensured right to life, educational support to rural schools have given a ray of
hope to little children whose futures were perceived as uneducated mass and specifically
contributed to the empowerment and self-dependency of the people who remained socially and
economically backward.

Development of SC/ST Communities

CSR initiatives at HPCL has taken specific efforts for the development of economically and
socially backward communities. A number of initiatives have been taken during the year for the
development and empowerment of SCs, and STs and towards women empowerment. The long
term initiatives included SCs, STs and Women/Girls as beneficiaries in large numbers. Our long

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term projects specifically focus on people from SC/ST Communities and efforts for the benefit to
the socially marginalized groups. A large of community development initiatives were taken by the
field level employees of the corporation for the development of SC, ST, OBC and Minority
communities. Appx. 45% of expenditure other than on Swachh Vidyalaya Abhiyan was made on
Development of SC/ST Communities in a Pan India Manner.

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is a national campaign by the Government of India to clean the streets,
roads and infrastructure of the country. HPCL as part of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has taken various
initiatives under CSR ensuring that clean environment is created and maintained in all its business
units as well as in community at large.

The following are the initiatives taken under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan at HPCL:

 Large number of people took oath to maintain cleanliness

 Multiple activities including cleanliness drive, walkathon, school functions, and
community based activities were conducted by employees of the corporation in
collaboration with various agencies
 CSR partners carried out various programs in schools, communities involving children,
parents, teachers and administration.
 Annual and Five year Plan Developed for activities under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
 1245 school toilets constructed in states of Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh
and Odisha under Swachh Vidyalaya Abhiyan before 15th August 2016.
 Special drive initiated to provide and maintain clean toilets at retail outlets on a sustainable
basis under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
 Shram Daan initiatives have been taken by HPCL locations which involved cleaning of the
unit premises, cleanliness drives in neighbouring communities, walkathons, street plays,
competitions, school based activities etc. this involved large number of employees of the
corporation in the task of cleaning the surroundings and generating awareness
 Waste to Fuel Generation project is being taken up
 HPCL adopted Golden Temple Amritsar , A Swachh Iconic Place: An initiative of Ministry
of Drinking Water and sanitation :

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  Initiated task of adoption of Urban Slum in Mumbai to maintain its cleanliness and
sensitize citizens on sanitation practices
 Various initiatives like Swachh Pakhwada/Swachhta hi Seva were undertaken across the
country

Child Care & Education

HPCL as a responsible citizen cares for the society by collaborating between individuals and
organizations to promote economic and social empowerment of under-served communities.
Guided by its vision, HPCL CSR has contributed effectively and has brought visible change in the
lives of people.

given utmost support and encouragement. Initiatives of our corporation are broadly classified
under Focus Areas: Child-Care and Education, Health Care, Skill Development, Sports, and
Environment and Community Development. Interventions in these areas make a meaningful and
long-term impact on the community.

CSR Expenditure:

Financial Year Amount Spent(Rs 2% of average Net Difference

Cr) Profit of profit of
preceding three years
2014-15 34.07 34.03 +0.04
2015-16 71.75 53.92 +17.83
2016-17 108.11 82.90 +25.21

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6.0 :CSR Expenditure in Education:

Financial Year CSR Spent(Rs Cr) Spent in Education % Spent in education

2014-15 34.07 10.80 31.69
2015-16 71.75 16.32 22.74
2016-17 108.11 27.18 25.14

It is thus observed that even though HPCL has six focus areas it spends almost one fourth of the
total CSR budget in education. Because HPCL CSR believes that education can bring out many
social changes and investment in the area of education can bring much more return.

Accordingly, it was decided to review two major projects undertaken by HPCL in the area of
education to learn deeper aspect of these projects their implementation process monitoring. As
covered earlier HPCLL CSR has undertaken various CSR projects in the area of education. Where
various locations spread across the country undertake activities based on the need of the
communities in and around their operation from Headquarters’ office major and long term projects
are undertaken. The following major projects under the focus area education are run in partnerships
with Non-profit organization.
 ADAPT
 Agastya
 Akshay Patra
 Nanhi Kali
 Unnati

An attempt was made to understand each of these major project in the area of Education undertaken
by the corporation as their long term commitment to promote education among disadvantaged
section of society including the differently abled children, first generation school going children

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ADAPT (Abled Disabled All People Together):

Introduction and Project Back Ground:

HPCL has been the supporting children with special needs through ADAPT since 2011-12.
ADAPT (formerly the spastic society of India) is a public charity trust with its registered office at
Mumbai. The vision of the trust is to promote the growth and development of inclusion of persons
with disability in particular and other socially disadvantages children and youth including girl child
in India through provision of holistic need based education and treatment under one roof and
development of resources people through manpower development courses.
The project aims to provide quality education and therapeutic treatment to 300 students of
ADAPT schools at Bandra and Colaba in an enabling environment to help them realize their full
potentials. The children follow the state curriculum (Secondary school service), National institute
of open school ( NIOS) or vocational courses of ADAPT.
ADAPT carries out a need assessment or the baseline for each of these students at the beginning
of the year that helps in identifying the intervention required over period of time to set the end line
or the target for each students.
Disabilty is least understood among the people who are able. Actually it is the mind set and
understanding of the able people that many a time fail to see the ability beyond the disability. It
is not only to address the medical needs of the people with special needs but to change the mindset
of all to work towards providing equal opportunity and dignity that needs widespread awareness
and mobilization.

Key stake holder of this project:

 Children with special needs enrolled in ADAPT
 Pranets of Children with special needs enrlled in ADAPT
 The ADAPT resource teams
 Main Steam Schools
 Government and non gvernment bodies
 Society at Large

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The strategy adopted to make the project successful:

 Identifying base line and end line that helps planning interventions
 Adoption of beneficiaries’ perspective
 Rights based model
 Inclusive Education ( Both able and disable children study together)
 Transdisciplinary team
 Community outreach
 Focus on independent living skill
 Engagement with parents
Outcome:
 Direct and indirect beneficiaries covered under various sensitization programs
 Quality service provided at subsidized cost
 Provision of counselling therapeutic and educational support.
 Provision of skill training to CWD/PWD
 Independent living skill and social skills imparted to beneficiaries continuous engagement
and training of parents
 Collaboration with mainstream schools for inclusive education

Impacts:
 Filling last mile gap in implementation of Sarva Shiksa Abhiyan
 Inclusive development of CWD/PWD, children from underprivileged backgrounds
 Collaboration with national international governmental and non-governmental agencies
 Increased sensitivity and awareness among all stakeholders
 Increased accessibility for poor and PWD to services of ADAPT
 CWD/PWD made employable and becoming more independent in daily lives
 Empowerment of parents to take care of their children and participate actively in their
development
 130 CWD/PWD from ADAPT schools received /are receiving formal education in regular
schools

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Agastya (Mobile Science Lab):

Introduction and Project Background:

The Mobile Science Lab (MSL) is a very powerful and innovative instrument to revolutionize rural
education and make hands-on education increasingly accessible. It is a catalytic channel that is
fun, engaging and interactive, aimed to raise awareness among disadvantaged children and
teachers of the value of learning - with a focus on science. Each MSL travels to doorstep of remote
schools with 100+ hands-on science models covering a wide range of topics in Physics, Chemistry,
Biology and Math for Class 5 through 9. There are also experiments not directly correlated to the
state syllabus but are intended to spark curiosity and encourage questioning among the children.

Details of the partner:

Project ‘Agastya’ is being implemented by Agastya International Foundation, an education trust
and non-profit organization. Mission of Agastya International Foundation is to spark curiosity,
nurture creativity and build confidence among economically disadvantaged children and teachers.
A team of scientists, educators and entrepreneurs led by Ramji Raghavan founded Agastya in
1999. Agastya runs hands-on science and art education programs in rural and semi-urban regions.
It is one of the largest science education programs that caters to economically disadvantaged
children and teachers in the world. Through all its programs, Agastya has reached over 10 million
children and over 2, 50,000 teachers in 19 states of India.

Project objective:

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  Increase access to practical, hands-on Science education for economically disadvantaged
government school children.
 To Spark Curiosity, Creativity and build leadership among underprivileged children
 Train teachers from government schools in hands on pedagogy.
 To supplement Government School system with experiential science learning.
 Introduce peer to peer teaching/learning methodology.

Key stake holders:

Students, Teachers, Trainers, HPCL, Staff from Agastya International Foundation, Parents of the
students and Government authorities

The strategy adopted to make the project successful:

 Teacher Training: Teachers are trained with an aim to disseminate knowledge and
propagate creative-thinking and problem-solving skills among government school
teachers.
 Simple Science Fairs and Summer Camps in which Young Instructors are identified and
trained to demonstrate science concepts to their peers through peer-to-peer learning.

These strategies facilitate greater interaction and understanding of concepts, boosts confidence and
improves communication skills among children and teachers.

Outcome:
School Exposure Visits: In FY 2017-18, under HPCL CSR Project ‘Agastya’, during the first two
quarters of project Mobile Science Labs conducted 148 school visits results in 14508 student
exposures along with 330 teacher exposures.

Community Visits: Conducted 21 Community Visits which benefited 922 children and 1152
adults. Also, Teacher training program was conducted, which benefited 10 Teachers.

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Impact
Agastya’s model delivers creativity-based education services to a large number of disadvantaged
and at-risk children and teachers through innovative service delivery channels. According to a
Ministry of Human Resource Development study conducted on 2,048 children from 256 schools,
over 70 percent of students and teachers welcomed Agastya and demanded an increase in
interventions. In response, Agastya promoted student concept retention and development and
provided professional development for teachers. According to a Best Practices Foundation study
of 1,348 children in Karnataka, there was a significant increase in awareness of alternative learning
methods, motivation to study science and leaps in curiosity.

Akshaya Patra

Introduction & Project Background:

With a view to enhancing enrollment, retention and attendance and simultaneously improving
nutritional levels among children, the National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary
Education (NP-NSPE) was launched as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme on 15th August
1995, initially in 2408 blocks in the country. By the year 1997-98 the NP-NSPE was introduced
in all blocks of the country. It was further extended in 2002 to cover not only children in classes I
-V of Government, Government aided and local body schools, but also children studying in EGS
and AIE centres. In September 2004 the scheme was revised to provide cooked mid day meal with
300 calories and 8-12 grams of protein to all children studying in classes I – V in Government and
aided schools and EGS/ AIE centres.

Project Akshaya Patra, of HPCL, is also focused on providing nutritious mid-day meal to the
school going children. The project is in conjunction with the Mid-Day Meal of the Government
and it simply adds a little more nutrition to that meal. There is nothing new in the program but it
provides financial support to enhance and add more nutrition in the mid-day meal.

Objectives:

The primary objective of the project is to project nutritional mid-day meals to school children in
government schools.

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The secondary objective of the project is to prevent school drop-outs among the children in
government school and to tackle the malnutrition among economically backward school going
children.

The primary object of the project is to be achieved by giving financial support for providing mid-
day meals to 12585 school going children in government schools. The secondary objective is a
trickle down effective which will be achieved through the primary objective. Many socially and
economically deprived children are enrolled in government schools. The dropout rate in the govt.
school is very alarming. The reason behind these high dropouts can be solely blamed to poor
economic condition of the students’ parents, as the parents are not able to feed their children they
are force to send their children to earn some income for the family. Thus, in order to reduce the
drop-outs the government has introduced the Mid-Day Meal Program. This project of HPCL will
also indirectly address this problem of dropout by providing nutritious mid-day meals to the
children.

Plan of the Project:

In order that the objective of the project is fully realized, the project will be implemented in the
following steps:

 The Implementing partner will provide mid-day meals to 5000 school going children in
government schools.
 The Implementing partner will be responsible for providing and maintaining the nutrition
level of the foods provide in the mid-meal program.
 The Implementing partner will establish centralized semi-automatic kitchen facility to cook
and prepare meals.
 The transportation of meals to selected schools and logistics will be the responsible of the
Implementing partner.

Implementing partner:

HPCL has partnered up with The Akshaya Patra Foundation to provide healthy and nutritious mid-
day meals in schools to prevent drop-outs and tackle malnutrition among school children.

Key stakeholders:

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The key stakeholders of this project include-

1. HPCL
2. The Akshaya Patra Foundation
3. Partner schools
4. Students and their families
5. Principal & Teachers
6. Community leaders
7. Community

Key Strategies:

 A centralized kitchen facility.

 Timely delivery of hot and nutritious mid-day meals to the schools
 Weekly menu fixed taking into account regional preferences.
 Quality and quantity of food maintained as per nutritional standards

Outcome:

This intervention has resulted in higher enrollments in schools and reduce drop-outs. It has also
contributed to an improvement in health standards of the students.

It has helped to reduce the burden on school resources and also minimizing food wastage.

Impact:

In the long run, this intervention has been able to fill the last mile gap in implementation of national
schemes.

It has led to an overall improvement in heath standards and learning capabilities of students.

As cooked food is being served to the students, the problem of storage of food grains in schools
has been addressed as a result of which teaching time has increased substantially.

Nanhi Kali:

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Background:

The power of education to transform communities is a gift that has changed India in the last few
decades. However still today, girls are deprived of this gift and are not considered worthy of it.
Even though there is an increase in education enrollment after the Right to Education Act, but girl
child education has not been able to gain that pace and accessibility for all especially for those
from underprivileged and vulnerable sections of society.

Due to this girl child education and gender inequality still remains a challenge to the society.

Objective:

Our Project Nanhi Kali aims to address this issue at its root by providing academic , material and
social support to first generation girl child from remote tribal villages and urban slums. The
intervention is planned in such a way that these girls have access to good quality education and
attend school with dignity.

This helps them to realize their role and potential at an early age as well as gives them confidence
and courage to break the barriers of the society and become independent in life.

Over the years, with this aim HPCL has been supporting girl child education in backward areas.

Implementing partner:

HPCL has partnered up with KC Mahindra Education Trust to support girl child education in
remote tribal villages and urban slums.

Key stakeholders:

The key stakeholders of this project include-

HPCL

KC Mahindra Education Trust

The field staff also known as community activists

Partner schools and staff

Local community

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Girl child students and their families.

Key Strategies:

 Academic support in the form of daily grade specific classes as well as additional support
in the form of extra classes depending on need.
 An interactive and student centric methodology of teaching focusing not only on education
but also on development of creative and other interpersonal skills through peer learning.
 Material support in the form of bags, books and other stationary and other hygiene
materials in order to create her interest and enable her to attend school with dignity.
 Timely assessments to monitor the progress and suitably rewarding them for their
performance.
 Regular Interaction with parents to track child’s performance as well as motivate them to
allow her to continue further studies.
 Constant engagement at family and village level to address the social barriers to girl child
education.
 Sensitizing the community to address the prejudices towards girl child as well as assert the
dire necessity of girl child education.

Outcome:

This intervention has resulted in increased enrollments of girl child and reduced dropouts from
schools.

More number of girls have been able to get good quality education through the support and many
of them have even pursued higher education to become independent and earn a living for
themselves.

Impact:

In the long run, this planned intervention has helped to create a good learning environment for girl
child in under-privileged and backward areas wherein it never existed.

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It has also been able to bring about a change in personality of these girls and has also motivated
and instilled a sense of confidence and courage in other girls to study and progress in life.

It has also been successful in bringing about a change in the mindset and attitude of the society
who have become now more open towards girl child education.

Unnati:

Introduction & Background

The future of India will be shaped in the classroom. India has amongst the largest student
populations in the world and a low literacy rate of 74.04% (Census 2011). While India has took
many steps in improving the education system and much still remain to be done. There is a short
supply of educated manpower which is employable. To meet existing and emerging demand, India
needs to significantly gear up its education infrastructure. The Government of India targets to
guarantee elementary education to every child between the ages of 6 to 14 years and for this
purpose, continues to support federally sponsored scheme, known as “Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan”, to
increase access to education as well as improve the quality of education. This scheme also aims to
promote computer-based education in schools.

In the last decade, we have experienced rapid advances in information technology which have
created new changes in the way we live, work and play. The growth of the Internet, e-commerce
and telecommunications has created tremendous opportunities and challenges for both societies
and economies. Information Technology is also having a profound effect on education. The
landscape of our schools today is vastly different from that which we were familiar with during
our own schooldays. Visit any school and you will see students accessing the Internet from PCs
along the corridors, in the classrooms and the library. IT has opened up the world of education. It
provides new tools for teachers and the students. And it opens up the whole world of knowledge
and allows teaching and learning to take place beyond the traditional boundaries and resources of
the school.

Objectives:

Primary Objectives:

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  To create computer awareness among students form less privileged communities in semi
urban and rural areas

Secondary Objectives:

 To introduce students with the world of Information Technology at the basic level
 To develop an IT related peer learning culture among students
 To equip teachers with basic IT knowledge to enable them to use technology for teaching
methodology
 To establish well equipped computer labs in schools lacking the infrastructure for computer
education

Implementing partner:

HPCL has partnered up with NIIT Foundation to provide IT enabled training to impart basic skills
in computer for students in less-privileged schools in semi-urban and rural areas.

Key stakeholders:

The key stakeholders of this project include-

1. HPCL
2. NIIT Foundation
3. Trainer from local community
4. Teachers and school administration
5. Students and their parents
6. Community leaders
7. Community

Key Strategies:

 Highly dedicated and experienced team of professional instructors.

 Highly equipped labs in each school for continued learning.
 40 hours duration for each student with 6-day classes per week , out of which 10 hours
shall be practical computer training in English/Hindi/Vernacular language depending on
the location

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  Training the teachers at the school to ensure sustainability of the project.
 Regular tests to assess the effectiveness of the project.
 Certificates and grades at the end of the program to the trained students and teachers.

Outcome:

This intervention has helped students from economically and socially backward background to get
access to basic computer education and also explore its benefits.

It has enabled them to become confident enough to compete with other students studying in other
schools.

Also, it has provided a platform for teachers to learn and use this knowledge to enhance learning
experience.

Impact:

In the long run, it has helped in creating a good learning environment in schools which is free from
any kind of socio-economic barriers.

The students and teachers have now become more aware and confident enough to use computer to
build their dreams and to even opt career in computers.

7.0: My role in the organization during the internship:

During the internship period I was assigned to Ms Kritika Kulshrestha, CSR officer of Hindustan
Petroleum Corporation Limited. She has explained me details about section 135 of the Co Act
2013 and CSR Rules 2014 and also various aspects of CSR policy of HPCL. She has also provided
me various documents to study and periodically reviewed the progress of my learning. During the
period I have also gone into the focus areas of the CSR policy and selected Child Care as my
learning area of the internship projects. Various documents and details regarding long term and
major projects under Child Care such as ADAPT, Unnati, Akshay patra, Nanhi kali were provided
as reading materials. Comparatives analysis and details of beneficiaries were reviewed and social
class wise analysis was done

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8.0 Challenge:

HPCL as an organization is very vast and its CSR activities are also spread over the country
involving six focus areas. Covering all the details with a short span of 200 hours was a challenging
job. Also the implication of Co Act 2013 particularly section 135 and the CSR rules are also wide.
Further study may be necessary to understand and master the whole gamut of law/rules policy and
projects programmes activities at the field level.

9.0 Conclusion:

Learning about the company:

It was an excellent learning opportunity to be associated with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation

Limited a fortune 500 company and a top rung leading Navratna Company in the public sector.
The profile of the company its genesis and area of operation including its products brand
positioning its board of members including government nominated directors, independent
directors were learnt. Various study about the SWOT (Strength Weakness Opportunity and Threat)
of the company was studied and understood. It was learnt that HPCL has a very good infrastructure
and network and all India presence. Its largest lube refinery and various other refineries huge
number of locations and pipelines and ongoing plans and projects make it a strong player in the
petroleum sector. It also has a strong work force and talent base. The threat could be completion
from existing Oil companies both in public and private sector and possible completion from other
multinational oil companies.

Learning about Co Act 2013:

It was an opportunity to understand various gamut of Co Act 2013 and CSR rules 2014 and
activities covered under schedule VII of the act that gives direction about applicability and
desirability of CSR investment in these areas. The implementation by the organization and
compliance of the Act at various levels were also discussed with the guide and based on the
theoretical and paractical aspect of learning a comparision sheet was prepared giving the status of
implementation at HPCL. It is observed that in terms of forming a board level committee including
independent director, formulating a CSR policy duly approved by Board of disclosing after

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committee members have been put in the website ( public domain).

Allocation of CSR fund, selecting areas of investment complying with schedule VII and having a
monitoring plan are also part of the policy. In addition, reporting in the prescribed format as
communicated by Ministry of Corporate Affairs have also been complied with.

Learning related to CSR activities of HPCL:

Once the Co Act related study was completed it was an opportunity to learn about the CSR
policy of the company various areas of interest or the focus areas of the company and financial
allocation and CSR spent. The CSR department also helped to understand focus area wise
analysis and expenditure that showed that company is spending major amount in the area of
education and Health.

Accordingly, it was decided to further study the details of the major projects undertaken by the
company in the area of education. Various projects in this area were studied in details in terms of
the background of the projects details of the implementation partners and the objective of the
projects. After ascertaining these details, the strategy adopted by the company in implementation
of these projects and the outcome impact of the projects were reviewed.

On an overall basis it was observed that company is committed to work in the area of education
particularly for the differently abled children and other marginalised section of the society. It also
focuses not only on the traditional teaching but also work in the area of computer education and
science education. To mitigate the burning issue of school, drop out due to hunger the company
has supported government midday meal project to make it more nutritious hygienic and delicious
by ensuring serving food hot. For holistic development in the area of education the company has
designed the projects in such a way that the barriers to education are removed and the family
members community leaders parents and other sections of the society are also involved for
effective delivery of services.

After going through above projects it may appear that Corporate Social Responsibility is a boon
to the society where the powerful corporate contribute towards societal development many a times
in tandem with governmental efforts to work in the area of societal and environmental challenges
that are plaguing our society.

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