V-MART RETAIL LTD

CHANGING LIVES THROUGH CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR)

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is termed as a way of ‘giving back ‘to the society

through many different ways by positively impacting on their lives and environment.

Our Vision/CSR Vision

“Create value and make our ecosystem proud”

To uphold and contribute to the realization of a sustainable society by balancing our

business activities with nature using the resources we have in making a real and

sustainable difference.

Our CSR Mission

Its a commitment to ourselves in maintaining a firm philosophy and conviction in

enhancing the living conditions of the society and environment around us.

Importance of CSR in our company

CSR is an integral part of our company as well as our company vision. It is an “Impact

through Empowerment” within us.

Our Objective

The main objective of the CSR policy is to lay down guidelines for the Company to

make CSR a business process for sustainable development of the society at large.

It aims to enhance and implement the society welfare measures by the Company

in a well structural manner on short and long term basis with a vision of making

V-Mart to act as Good Corporate Citizen. CSR is an evolving concept at V-Mart,

it’s been there since incorporation, we have promised to ourselves to take up the

responsibility of ensuring a healthy ecosystem. V-Mart’s CSR program is anchored

on the continuing commitment to improve the quality of living conditions and

opportunities for the differently able without regard to their faith, origin or gender.

Our CSR Policy

The V-Mart CSR policy is broadly framed taking into account the following

measures:-

1) Welfare measures for the community at large including employees and their

families, so as to ensure the poorer section of the society derived the maximum

benefits.

2) Contribution to the society at large by way of social development, imparting

education, training, social awareness specially with regard to economically

backward class for their development and distribution of necessary clothes/foods

item to the poor society in rural area of the country.

V-Mart Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy is underpinned by the following:

a) Contributing for a better tomorrow

b) Empowering the community

c) Promoting employee participation and commitment to CSR

How we achieve this:

Our main aim is to be committed to sustainable development through partnering

with those NGOs which are aimed at enhancing the living standards of deprived

citizen.

Our main focus areas in CSR are:

1) Providing education in rural areas and carrying out other activities for education in

the local areas, awareness program on girls education, providing school bus/ cycle

facilities to needy girl student of the school in the operational area of the

Company/Company outlet, support to technical/vocational institutional, support

for education for their self development;

2) Water supply including providing drinking water in rural area, Company

operational area, installation/repair of hand pamps, rain water harvesting scheme

3) Generation of employment in rural areas/small town, cities;

4) Grant /donation/financial assistance to hospitals, reputed NGOs, charitable

institutions/sponsorships to reputed NGOs of the society/locality doing/involve in

upliftment off the standard of the society;

5) Providing clothes/foods and other necessary items to poors and needy section of

the society living in different parts of the country, specifically the section of the

society in vicinity of stores/outlets/warehouse/offices of the Company;

6) Adoption of any village for carrying out the activities like infrastructure

development, education development, community development, providing

employment opportunity for the villagers;

7) Empowerment of woman for education/health & self employment;

8) Health care by providing Indoor medical facilities & medicines, organizing health

awareness camps;

9) Activities relating to environment protection, including plantation, green belt

development ;

Activities relating to social empowerment including training of rural youth for self

employment on welding, fabrication and electronic appliances, construction of hostels

for girls, care for senior citizens, organizing training programmes for woman on

tailoring, fabrication designs, home foods, painting and other vocational courses.

Some of our CSR initiatives are highlighted below:

COMMUNITY SERVICE

a. TOUCHING LIVES- „DISABILITY IS NOT INABILITY‟

V-Mart has taken a step towards helping the people with disabilities by joining hands

with SARTHAK Educational Trust, by giving them an opportunity to work with the

organization. SARTHAK Educational Trust is an NGO working in the field of disability

Rehabilitation. They believe that it is only employment which will bring inclusiveness

of persons with disability to the mainstream society.

For us this was a huge motivation to be able to help the disabled. The program is

designed to address the challenges associated with disability.

b. RIG RECRUITMENT

Recruitment drives in Kashipur for V-Mart’s store in Kashipur held in April, 2014. The

selected candidates are from RIG foundation which gives training to the children of the

victims of Uttarakhand disaster (July, 2013).

RIG Institute of Hospitality and Management has been set up in Greater Noida and at

Bazpur, Uttarakhand by Hospitality Education Services International (HESI). It is one of

the largest and most modern private hospitality management institutions in

Uttarakhand.

HEALTH CARE

CREATING A HEALTHY FUTURE FOR THE PRESENT GENERATION

c. BLOOD DONATION DRIVES

The blood donation drive is one of the ways V-Mart has shown its commitment to raising

the awareness level of helping the ones in need of blood. Each store/ region chooses a

hospital to organize the blood donation drives.

Kota- Blood donation camp held on 17th Feb, 2014, with 107 unit of blood donation.

Udaipur- Blood donation camp held on 22nd Feb, 2014, with 30 donor.

Blood donation camp in Ajmer took place successfully on 6th March, 2014 with 45

donors. Total donation- 45 units. Each donor was presented with a certificate from Lions

Club- Ajmer.

Jhansi- Blood donation camp held on 25th March, 2014.

Varanasi- Blood donation camp held successfully on 21th April, 2014.

d. EYE CAMPS

Store tied up with the local authorities and organized various eye camps at the stores.

Under the auspices of this partnership, this initiative has seen more than 100 people

undergoing free eye consultation. Great enthusiasm of the people can be seen in the

following glimpse.

Lajpat Nagar: Eye camp held in Lajpat Nagar (Delhi) on 6th April, 2014

Moradabad: Eye camp held in Moradabad (U.P.) on 22nd April, 2014

GO GREEN PROJECT

The go green project is an initiative in partnership with Jaagruti, an NGO that

focuses on ensuring we provide a clean and maintainable environment in our

corporate office by recycling used paper. In return, we will receive eco- friendly

notebooks, slip pads, etc.

'JAAGRUTI' works with over 100 well-respected institutions in Delhi and NCR since

the start of its Waste Paper Recycling Initiative in August 2011. To name a few,

these institutions include Diplomatic Establishments like U.S. Embassy, National

Crime Record Bureau, Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Delhi International Airport

Limited and many Hospitals.

CLEAN CITY DRIVE:- GORAKHPUR

One of the most concerned drive “CLEAN CITY” took off from Gorakhpur on 16-01-2015.

Our Gorakhpur team tied up with the local Govt. authorities and organized this special

event, DM of the city was present to grace the event, this initiative has seen more than

200 people and various school children participated to make this event “GRAND”. Great

enthusiasm of the people can be seen in the following glimpse.

CHILDREN ARE SPECIAL FOR US:- DRAWING COMPITETION

A UNIQUE STEP TO MOTIVATE OUR KIDS:-AT LUXA

With the continued support of our staff and the environment around us, we

believe we will be able to achieve our CSR principles.