Bluechip Corporate Investment Centre Private Limited  
POLICY ON CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Introduction

The Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Bluechip Corporate Investment Centre Private Limited (the “Company”) has adopted the following policy and procedures with regard to Corporate Social Responsibility. The Board may review and amend this policy from time to time subject to the recommendations of Corporate Social Responsibility Committee.

Policy Objective & Philosophy

It is pertinent that business enterprises are economic organs of society and draw on societal resources. Bluechip Corporate Investment Centre Private Limited believes that in the strategic context of business, enterprises possess, beyond mere financial resources, the transformational capacity to create game-changing development models by unleashing their power of entrepreneurial vitality, innovation and creativity. In line with this belief, the Company will continue crafting unique models to create a better society. Such Corporate Social Responsibility ("CSR") projects are far more replicable, scalable and sustainable, with a significant multiplier impact on sustainable livelihood creation and working for a cause of humanity.


Policy
  • To direct CSR’s Programmes, inter alia, towards achieving one or more of the following - enhancing environmental and natural capital; supporting rural development; promoting education including skill development; promoting healthcare including preventive healthcare & sanitation and drinking water; creating livelihoods for people, especially those from disadvantaged sections of society, in rural and urban India and preserving and promoting sports;

  • To engage in affirmative action/interventions such as skill building and vocational training, to enhance employability and generate livelihoods for persons including from disadvantaged sections of society;

  • To pursue CSR Programmes primarily in areas that fall within the economic vicinity of the Company's operations to enable close supervision and ensure maximum development impact;

  • To contribute or provide funds to such organization/trust/society which undertakes the activities in the field of environmental sustainability, protection of flaura and fauna and animal welfare;

Implementation

To implement the Company's CSR Programmes through Company personnel or through Charitable Trust or through external implementing agencies or other Registered Trusts / Society or a Section 8 company that are established or that may be established by the Company or its holding/subsidiary/associate Company from time to time. In such cases, the Company will specify the CSR Programmes which may be undertaken by those Trusts/Societies or Section 8 companies in accordance with their objects and administrative and accounting processes laid down in the respective Trust Deeds/ Memorandum and Articles of Association.


Governance
  • Every year, the CSR Committee will place for the Board's approval, a CSR Plan delineating the CSR Programmes to be carried out during the financial year and the specified budgets thereof. The Board will consider and approve the CSR Plan with any modification that may be deemed necessary.

  • The CSR Committee will assign the task of implementation of the CSR Plan within specified budgets and timeframes to such persons or bodies as it may deem fit.

  • The persons/bodies to which the implementation is assigned will carry out such CSR Programmes as determined by the CSR Committee within the specified budgets and timeframes and report back to the CSR Committee on the progress thereon at such frequency as the CSR Committee may direct.

  • The CSR Committee shall review the implementation of the CSR Programmes periodically and issue necessary directions from time to time to ensure orderly and efficient execution of the CSR Programmes in accordance with this Policy.

  • The CSR Committee will review periodically and keep the Board apprised of the status of the progress of implementation of the approved CSR Programmes.

  • At the end of every financial year, the CSR Committee will submit its report to the Board.

CSR Expenditure

CSR expenditure will include all expenditures that may be permitted under the applicable laws, including contribution to corpus for CSR Programmes approved by the Board on the recommendation of its CSR Committee, but does not include any expenditure on an item not in conformity or not in line with activities which fall within the purview of Schedule VII of the Act.