(Gujarat Tea Processors and Packers Limited)
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been deeply rooted in the Company’s business culture since inception. The Company is committed to conduct its business operations in an environmental friendly and socially responsible manner. Through its various CSR initiatives, it has been the Company’s constant endeavour to impact the lives of underprivileged people of the society and the environmental sustainability.
Shree Vasant Narayan Desai Multipurpose Charitable Trust, set up in memory of the Wagh Bakri Tea Group’s founder Shri Narandas Desai and Vasantba, also generously donates to the downtrodden people in the society for various causes since past four decades. In 2001, when a devastating earthquake shook the State of Gujarat, the group worked non-stop to help the affected people here. It has also donated generously for polio eradication to the Sevani Suvas Polio Foundation. The Group ascribe much importance to Education and felicitates outstanding students every year from across the Gujarat.
The Company’s CSR role has emerged from time to time in different forms while working for the social cause. The Company’s CSR projects are aligned to benefit the needy and underprivileged people of the Society so also to contribute to Environmental, Social and Economic sustainability. The Company has undertaken its social activities and projects in the fields of Women Empowerment, Education, Health Care and Environmental sustainability with the help of eminent implementing agencies, which excel in their own fields of social work.
Keeping in view the statutory requirements of the Companies Act, 2013 towards Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the Company has formed a Corporate Social Responsibility Committee consisting of its Directors viz., Shri Piyushkumar O. Desai (Chairman), Shri Pankajkumar R. Desai (Vice Chairman), Shri Raseshbhai R. Desai (Managing Director) and Shri Bhushan Punani (Independent Director). Shri Piyushkumar O. Desai is the Chairman of CSR Committee. All the members of CSR committee have rich and extensive experience in carrying out CSR activities and are directly and indirectly associated with various charitable and social activities too. The details of the Company’s various CSR projects undertaken and implemented in the fields of Education Promotion, Women Empowerment, Health Care and Environmental, Social & Economic sustainability are provided in sections given herein below:
Annual Report on CSR Activities for the FY 2021-22
Annual Report on CSR Activities for the FY 2020-21
Annual Action Plan for the FY 2022-23
Annual Action Plan for the FY 2021-22