Gillette_India_Limited_AR_20

Annual Report 2019-20 10 Gillette India Limited Schools around India temporarily closed as a preventive measure to contain the spread of COVID-19, affecting millions of students, particularly from underprivileged communities. To facilitate continuity of learning, your Company partnered with Pratham to pilot newer platforms of learning. We connected with students via phone calls, SMSs, video calls and WhatsApp to encourage them to continue learning at home. For children in their formative years, we encouraged mothers to engage their children in simple hands- on activities focused on building their child’s cognitive and language skills. For students in grades 1-8, we provided academic content and engaging activities in Math, Science and English to help them continue learning. Along with partner Educational Initiatives, we provided students access to the Mindspark software to enable them to continue learning. We also set up a toll-free hotline for students to hear educational stories and solve questions over the phone. Your Company has constituted a Corporate Social Responsibility Committee. The composition and terms of reference of the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee are provided in the Corporate Governance Report annexed to this Report. Annual report on Corporate Social Responsibility activities as required under the Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Rules, 2014 has been appended as Annexure II to this Report. The CSR Policy is available on the Company’s website at https://in.pg.com/india-governance- and-policies/gil/terms-and-policies/. ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND CONSERVATION OF ENERGY Environmental sustainability is embedded in our Purpose, Values, Principles, and our business. We are committed to improving lives, now and for generations to come by ensuring that our products, packaging and operations are safe for employees, consumers and the environment. We ensure by focusing on technologies, processes and improvements that matter for the environment. Within our operations, we strive to grow responsibly, continuously improve our efficiency while reducing our carbon footprint. All the manufacturing plants in India are ‘zero waste to landfill’ sites which means that there is no manufacturing discharge into the environment. We are committed to help reduce the flow of plastic by making changes now and bringing long- term solutions. In India, we have put in place a system to recover and recycle multi-layered plastic packaging waste. We are working with various waste management companies and the industry to collect, segregate and recycle multi- layered plastic packaging waste. In line with our ‘Ambition 2030’ goal of creating a positive impact on the environment and society, P&G India group set-up an ‘Environmental Sustainability Fund,’ to collaborate with external partners offering environmentally sustainable business solutions. We made this announcement at the second edition of ‘P&G vGROW External Business Partner Summit’ which focused on identifying and implementing step-changing environmentally sustainable solutions like packaging innovations, renewable sources of energy and reducing carbon footprint. Our vGROW forum offers potential partners like startups, small businesses, individuals and large organizations a platform to pitch their innovative industry-leading solutions to our leadership team. We are embracing our responsibility to be a catalyst for good in our communities. More than 150 P&G India employees, partner employees, family and friends collected nearly 2300 kg of waste from the Mahim beach in Mumbai. The collected waste was segregated and recycled by our waste management partner. Through these interventions, we strive to enhance the overall state of cleanliness and waste management by making sustainability a part of everything we do. In partnership with our stakeholders and employees, we are helping to build a more sustainable future for us all, a cause we strongly feel and believe in. Measures taken for energy conservation Our Bhiwadi and Baddi plants took several employee engagement initiatives to drive an energy saving mindset. As a result, in the last five years, both the plants reduced their carbon footprint significantly on energy, water usage per unit of production, emissions and waste generated per units of production. Various measures taken are given below: