Corporate Social Responsibilty Policy

COMPANY BACKGROUND:

NOVEX COMMUNICATIONS PRIVATE LIMITED was incorporated in the year 2002.
Presently, the Company is engaged in Broadcasting and Programming Activities.

CSR VISION STATEMENT

“Help Improve Lives by Partnering with Communities to deliver lasting Solutions.”

The Vision statement is built on the four value pillars:

Improving Lives
Sustainable Development
Partnerships
Care and Concern

OBJECTIVES OF COMPANY’S CSR:

COMPANY’S CSR policy intends to:

Strive for economic development that positively impacts the society at large with a minimal resource footprint.
Embrace responsibility for the Company’s actions and encourage a positive impact through its activities on environment, communities, stakeholders and the society.

CSR BUDGET:

The Board of Directors of the Company shall ensure that in each financial year the Company spends at least 2% of the average net profit made during the immediately preceding financial year.
As per section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 (“the Act”), the Company will report in its Boards Report to the shareholders of the company, reasons, if any, for under spending the allocated CSR Budget in any of the financial year.

VALIDITY AND MAINTENANCE OF CSR POLICY:

This CSR Policy of the Company has been approved by the Board of Directors, at its meeting held on 9^th September, 2019 and shall remain in force until modified by the Board.
The CSR policy will be maintained by the CSR Committee of the Board of Directors and reviewed by the Board of Directors at periodic intervals.

Focus Areas
Novex Communications Private Limited recognizes that ensuring lasting impact will require our CSR programmes to leverage our existing strengths, work with communities we have access to, focus our interventions and where possible facilitate new ways of delivering services to address the most pressing social challenges.

The focus area will include:

1.1 Eradicating hunger, poverty and malnutrition; promoting health care including preventive health care and sanitation including contribution to the ‘Swachh Bharat Kosh’ set-up by the Central Government for the promotion of sanitation and making available safe drinking water;
1. Eradicating h unger

Provision of food, nutrition supplement, clothes etc for the poor, children and other deprived sections of the society.
Food Supply for the purpose of Disaster Relief.
Supporting nutrition in anganwadi centres and building capacities of anganwadi workers to this effect.

2. Poverty and malnutrition

Trauma care around highways in case of road accidents.
Provision of shelter for homeless.
Supplementing of Govt. schemes like mid-day meal through additional nutrition.

3. Promoting preventive health care

Giving medical and Legal aid, treatment to road accident victims.
Provisions for aids and appliances to the differently- able persons.
Enabling access to, or improving the delivery of, public health systems.

4. Promoting sanitation including contribution to the ‘Swachh Bharat Kosh’ set-up by the Central Government for the promotion of sanitation and making available safe drinking water.

1. 2 Promoting education, including special education and employment enhancing vocation skills especially among children, women, elderly, and the differently abled and livelihood enhancement projects:

Promoting education

A. Promotion of Road Safety through CSR:

Promotions of Education, Educating the Masses and Promotion of Road Safety awareness in all facets of road usage.
Safety traffic engineering and awareness through print, audio and visual media.

B. Consumer Protection Services

Providing effective consumer grievance redressal mechanism.
Protecting consumer’s health and safety, sustainable consumption, consumer service, support and complaint resolution.
Consumer protection activities.
Consumer Rights to be mandated.
All consumer protection programs and activities on the same lines as Rural Development, Education etc.

C. Monetary contributions to academic and other institutions with the objective of assisting students in their studies.
D. To provide Education Kit comprising study material, uniforms etc. to the poor students of Govt. Schools.
E. Adoption of Govt. Schools and / or providing financial assistance to set up various infrastructure facilities.
F. To extend support /educational assistance to children from financially backward families and underprivileged community as part of the company’s social responsibility.

VOCATIONAL SKILLS

Employment enhancing vocational training to the youth through its Youth Employability Programme. This will help the beneficiaries in improving their employability and improve their prospects economically. The programme will also have a positive impact on the confidence of the young beneficiaries and enhance their ability to face various challenges in life.
Employment linked vocational skills training with aim to train and employ over thousands of youths in the rural areas over the next five years. Training will be executed by multiple specialized training providers.
To conduct Drivers’ training Programme so as to minimize road accidents.
Any other projects related to the above.

1.3 Promoting gender equality, empowering women, setting up homes and hostels for women and orphans; setting up old age homes, day care centres and such other facilities for senior citizens and measures for reducing inequalities faced by socially and economically backward groups;

Setting up homes, hostels and day care centers for woman; such other facilities for old age women; and adopting measures for reducing inequalities faced by socially and economically backward women through.
Activities to prevent discrimination of girl child and promote girl education and employment.
Activities for women empowerment and health care of pregnant women.
Support old age homes.
Support orphanages.
To provide financial assistance to organizations working on the similar objective.
Any other project related to the above.

Measures for reducing inequalities faced by socially and economically backward groups;

Enabling access to, or improving the delivery of, public health systems.

1.4 Ensuring environmental sustainability, ecological balance, protection of flora and fauna, animal welfare, agroforestry, conservation of natural resources and maintaining quality of soil, air and water including contribution to the Clean Ganga Fund set up by the Central Government for rejuvenation of river Ganga.

Ensuring environmental sustainability

Plantation drives in schools, villages, our manufacturing units & offices/business premises and other areas in general;
Reviving endangered plants, promoting agro-forestry;
Adoption of wastelands to cultivate plants;
Promoting biodiversity;
Animal welfare and veterinary services.
Technical support and Knowhow for improving farming and building capacities of small farmers.
Promoting alternate energy resources.

Ecological balance

Doing our own research on the field for individual crops to find out the most cost optimum and Agri – ecological sustainable farm practices. (Applied research) with a focus on water management.

Maintaining quality of soil, air and water

To do Product Life Cycle analysis from the soil conservation point of view.
Contribution to the Clean Ganga Fund set up by the Central Government for rejuvenation of river Ganga.

Conservation of natural resources

Renewable energy projects- Design and implement community based projects for energy efficiency & energy conservation, RE technology, pollution reduction and environment protection such as promoting use of solar energy, smokeless cookstoves, etc.

1.5 Protection of national heritage, art and culture including restoration of buildings and sites of historical importance and works of art; setting up public libraries; promotion and development of traditional arts and handicrafts