JSW Steel focusses on strengthening its relationships with the communities through a meaningful and purposeful engagement. It implements a range of programmes that enables improved quality of life for people who are impacted by its operations. Over the years, JSW Steel’s continuous efforts have resulted in better education, better health, better employment, better infrastructure and better sanitation for the local communities.

“Driven by the vision and transformative spirit of our founder Mr. O. P. Jindal, we, at JSW Steel, are committed to bring a positive change in the lives of our local communities. The organisation has strategically invested in projects that aim to solve the fundamental issues of the locals by providing opportunities and infrastructural support, thereby helping them lead a meaningful life. A testimony to the impact of these projects is the fact that our initiatives touched more than four lakh individuals across geographies in FY 2018-19.”

The Company contributes towards CSR with the aim of mitigating the major challenges faced by the communities across all locations where it has operations. The interventions focus on programmes aimed at creating development models that can be replicated at scale and adopted across geographies with similar issues.

Our approach to CSR

JSW Steel’s CSR approach is based on a framework that is developed to identify key stakeholder groups, including the local community, the local government or bodies, academia and research institutions, investors, etc. The CSR interventions are wholly based on the needs assessed through community engagement, backed with a definitive structure arising from the identification of needs of the local area and the existing systemic gaps.

Natural resource management is one of the key areas identified for addressing the basic issue of poverty. Leveraging the substantial work that had been done around watershed management, steps were taken to develop synergies, thereby improving agricultural productivity and generating livelihoods. Another area that has received renewed focus is the gap in the field of education that is being bridged through the provision of supplementary teachers.

Overall, the Company has aligned its CSR programmes to the key areas of health and nutrition, education and learning, agri-initiatives, livelihood, sanitation, water conservation and augmentation, biodiversity promotion, skill enhancement, and art, culture and sports.

JSW Foundation, the CSR arm of JSW Steel, administers the planning and implementation of all the CSR interventions. It is guided by the CSR Committee appointed by the Board, which reviews the progress from time to time and provides guidance as necessary. The CSR projects are designed looking at a multi- year time horizon. They are executed in partnership with suitable implementing partners who are identified following a rigorous due diligence process. Joint periodic reviews of the project with the partner form the basis of course corrections from time to time. Indicators identified at the project conceptualisation stage are used to ascertain its impact. Projects also include a defined phase-out strategy, ensuring that they are adopted by the community.

During FY 2018-19, the Company’s contribution towards CSR stood at `63 crore.

For detailed information on CSR spend, refer to Annexure D of Directors' Report

Contributing to the Swachh Bharat Mission

Vijayanagar

A waste collection and disposal initiative was launched in 12 surrounding villages, covering 20,000 households and 1,400 commercial entities. With a daily collection of 5 MnT of waste, the initiative has also generated a revenue of `90,000 by sale of dry waste in a year.

Salem

The Company constructed two toilet blocks for about 500 students studying in government schools to provide safe sanitation facility.

Education for specially-abled children

With an aim to guide and assist parents, siblings and other family members on how to train their disabled children, funding was provided to construct a classroom for the specially-abled children in the Government Boys Higher Secondary School premises.

Health

Working towards the aim of improving the health of the local community, the following initiatives were undertaken:

• Health camps
• Awareness drives on topics such as HIV AIDS and general hygiene
• Malnutrition eradication drive
• Paediatric health camps
• Provision of vehicle for government hospitals