MAHINDRA & MAHINDRA LTD. Board’s Report 101 Domain Skilling: Under this initiative of Project Kaabil, the candidates are trained majorly in the domains of Automotive, IT/ITES, Hospitality, Healthcare, Retail, Entrepreneurship and Apparel sectors across 15 states, equipping them with vocational skills required to secure jobs in these industries. In FY25, this initiative reached out to 12,242 women out of which 11,792 women were trained with support of the Mahindra Group. Of these, 10,639 were supported through your Company. Agri Skilling: Regenerative Agriculture: This initiative of Project Kaabil has enabled women farmers to use regenerative agricultural practices and undergo bio-diversity training to improve soil fertility and increase productivity. This has ensured food and nutrition security for their families, along with enhanced income levels. The Mahindra Group supported 52,443 women farmers in FY25 from Muktsar Sahib and Tarn Taran in Punjab, Shravasti in Uttar Pradesh, as well as Araku in Andhra Pradesh. Of this, 50,000 women were supported by your Company. This intervention helped women farmers reduce their agriculture input costs and in future will help them enhance their livelihood income with sale of crops. Farm Skilling: Under the farm skilling initiative of PRERNA, your Company supported 3,811 women farmers by training them in effective farming practices and providing them with advisory services which include soil health, access to gender-friendly farm equipment, linkages to Government welfare support initiatives, resource efficient agriculture methodologies, and increasing crop productivity. Technological Integration: In addition to the physical intervention programs, the Company has recently launched a technical integration to create outreach and achieve scale via a job placement portal for young women. Kaabil app and website is a digital platform for young women entering the job force with skill development training modules, hyperlocal job opportunities, career counselling and mentorship to enable women to navigate hyper-local jobs at entry level and stay invested towards longer term career opportunities they may otherwise not be familiar with. Environment Conservation Jal Samriddhi (Water conservation) has been a flagship CSR initiative across the business locations of the Company. The focus is on capacity building of farmers and community in creating/rejuvenating water harvesting structures for water conservation, soil erosion prevention, improving soil health, and crop diversification. These efforts increased water harvesting potential for irrigation and drinking by positively impacting surface and ground water levels. In FY25, under Jal Samriddhi project, your Company undertook creation and renovation of 611 water harvesting structures resulting in 3,758.18 lakh litres of water harvesting potential and an increase in irrigation potential across 1,942.2 hectares. Cumulatively 15,173.45 hectares were covered under water management initiatives and more than 48,781 farmers and community members have benefitted through water conservation. This includes a collaborative project undertaken with NABARD in Kadwa river basin, Igatpuri (Nashik District) which is a long term project aimed to ensure water security in the water scarce area. In total, 117 villages were covered across 7 states. Employee Volunteering Employee volunteering continues to be a vital component of your Company’s CSR efforts. Through the Employee Social Options (Esops) and MySeva platforms, the Company’s employees contributed to various social causes including blood donation drives, tree plantation, cleanliness drives, health check-up camps, supported government schools, and diverse community engagement activities. The Mahindra Group employees invested 3,82,405 person hours through the Esops Platform (Company organized), and 1,28,282 person hours were contributed through MySeva (individual social responsibility). Your Company’s employees contributed 69,471 person hours towards a variety of social causes, of which 69,267 person hours were invested through Esops and 204 person hours were contributed through MySeva. The third edition of Mahindra Volunteering Day was held on 5th December, 2024, wherein 37,357 enthusiastic volunteers contributed 1,14,996 person hours in various activities. During the last Financial Year, your Company was humbled to receive the following awards for its contribution to society, further motivating to serve its communities. 1. CII Sustainability award for ‘CSR Domain Excellence’ Category (December 2024) 2. ‘One Decade Excellence in CSR Award’ by Honourable Governor of Maharashtra (July 2024)
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