Corporate Social Responsibility

Avery Weigh-Tronix India is committed to working in partnership with communities and relevant stakeholders to facilitate individuals and groups from the underprivileged sections of society to access a better quality of life, making them self-reliant for a better tomorrow.

Avery India Limited’s CSR Policy is inspired by the global CSR ideology of the wider ITW Group. At ITW, every action is done with purpose. Throughout ITW, employees and leaders consider our impact on the communities where we live and work, the lives we touch, and the environment around us.

Avery India’s CSR Activities include:

1.      Eradicating hunger, poverty and malnutrition through: 

(a)    Provision of food, nutrition supplement, clothes etc. for the poor, children and other deprived sections of the society;

(b)   Supporting nutrition in underdeveloped areas and building capacities of workers to this effect;

(c)    Provision of shelter for homeless; and

(d)   Promoting sanitation, making available safe drinking water.

2.      Promoting Health care including Preventive Health care:

Through awareness programmes, health check-ups, provision of medicine & treatment facilities, providing pre natal & post natal healthcare facilities, prevention of female feticide through awareness creation, program for preventing diseases and building immunity.

 3.      Ensuring environmental sustainability and ecological balance through:

(a)    Plantation drives in schools, villages, our manufacturing units & offices/ business premises and other areas in general;

(b)   Reviving endangered plants, promoting agro-forestry;

(c)    Protection of flora & fauna;

(d)   Conservation of natural resources;

(e)    Maintaining quality of soil, air & water;

(f)    Adoption of wastelands to cultivate plants;

(g)   Promoting biodiversity;

(h)   Animal welfare and veterinary services;

(i)     Technical support and Knowhow for improving farming and building capacities of small farmers;

(j)     Promoting alternate energy resources.

 4.      Employment and livelihood enhancing vocational skills and projects:

Including tailoring, beautician, mehndi application, bee keeping, food processing and preservation and other Life Skill Training and livelihood enhancement projects.

 5.      Promotion of education:

Especially among children, women, elderly and the differently abled including:

(a)    Non-formal education programmes;

(b)   Supporting schools with infrastructure like benches, toilets, potable water, fans etc.;

(c)    Supporting other educational institutions;

(d)   Improving educational facilities in general; and

(e)    Supporting children for higher education.

 6.      Promoting gender equality and empowering women including:

(a)    Adult literacy for women;

(b)   Promoting and providing credit support to women’s self-help and joint liability groups;

(c)    Training in vocations pursued by women;

(d)   Setting up homes for women & orphans;

(e)    Setting up old-age homes & other facilities for senior citizens; and

(f)    Setting up hostels for working and student women, day care centres for kids of working women.

7.      Contribution or funds provided to technology incubators located within academic institutions which are approved by the Central Government.

8.      Rural Development Projects.

9.      Other Activities

(a)    Promotion of Sports with special focus on training for rural sports, nationally recognised sports, Paralympic sports, Olympic sports;

(b)   Welfare for differently disabled persons;

(c)    Setting up public libraries;

(d)   Reducing inequalities faced by the socially and economically backward groups;

(e)    Protection of national heritage, art, culture and handicraft; Restoration of Buildings and sites of historical importance & works of art; and

(f)    Welfare of armed forces personnel, war widows and their dependants.

10.  Incidental Activities 

Employing people and incurring other costs to carry out aforesaid activities.

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