REPORT ON CSR ACTIVITIES IN FY 2018-19

1. Aravind Eye Hospitals - The Govel Trust. a non-profit organization is running the Aravind Eye Hospitals at , Theni, , , Coimbatore City centre, , Tuticorin, Tirupur, Udumalpet, , Salem, and . It was founded in l976 by Dr. G. Venkataswamy as an eleven bedded hospital in a rented facility, with a mission to eliminate needless blindness by providing appropriate, compassionate and high-quality eye care to all. GIC Re have contributed approx. Rs. 2.73 cr towards their project wherein the main aim is to reduce vision impairment. The projects spans over 2 years.

2. Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO) - is a Section 8 company functioning under the Administrative Control of Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities for providing aid & appliance to the disabled at totally free of cost. The objective of this project is the upliftment of poor and needy disabled beneficiaries by bringing them into main stream of society to lead a normal life through their need assessment and provision of requisite appliances. GIC Re has agreed to conduct 10 camps across pan India at following places Firozpur, Haridwar, Amravati, Indore, Kozhikode, Aurangabad, Adilabad, Darjeeling, Mysore, Vishakhapatnam. The project cost is Rs. 5.00 cr.

3. Amar Seva Sangham- It is a premier organization in the field of disability management. GIC Re stands by its commitment to construct Stage 3 and 4 in their school which would have 1 Lab, 3 classrooms, corridors, one toilet each for girls, boys and staff and ramp. The approx. cost of the project is Rs 1.27 cr.

4. Ashray Social Welfare Foundation - They work in the sectors of Women Empowerment, Community Health and Nutrition, Water and Sanitation, Education, Skill and Community Development. GIC Re has contributed Rs. 19.75 lakhs for a pre-fabricated van which will be used as a medical mobile unit to provide primary health care services. The medical services would be provided in 12 villages of Santalpur Taluka, Gujarat.

5. Annamrita Foundation - formerly known as ISKCON Food Relief Foundation implement the Midday Meal program in municipal, government aided and non-aided schools for the benefit of underprivileged children. We have contributed Rs. 15.20 lakhs for two food delivery vehicles to supply their mid-day meals to the various schools in Mumbai and Jaipur.

6. Bhagwan Mahavir Viklang Sahyata Samiti- The main objective of BMVSS is providing mobility and dignity to the amputees especially to those who are below poverty line. They provide amputees and polio patients artificial limbs and other aids and appliances totally free of charge. GIC Re has been associated with them since the last 4 years. This year we have contributed funds for about 3 projects • Rs. 25.00 lakhs for their Jaipur centre which covers their running expenses for about 3 months. • We have committed Rs. 4.04 cr through BMVSS. The funds have been spent on patients availing their services across the eight centres in Rajasthan viz. Jaipur, Ajmer, Bikaner, Jodhpur, Kota, Pali, Udaipur and Bharatpur. This would also include camps conducted in Rajasthan and camps conduced outside Rajasthan through these centres. • Rs. 6.20 lakhs were spent on a camp conducted through their Ahmedabad centre.

7. Bosco Net - is a secular organization working towards the goal of empowering the young. It believes in empowering change, especially for the young people who are citizens of tomorrow’s world. Their vision is to attain a just and harmonious nation where the youth and marginalized communities are the protagonists of social development through the services rendered by Don Bosco all over South Asia. GIC Re has contributed approx. Rs. 99.00 lakhs for 5 school buses. They `ll be used in Don Bosco schools at Punganur, Ravulapalem; AP and Mariapuram, Wyra in Telangana.

8. Ciigma Health Foundation: -CHF is a healthcare support organization representing the voice of deprived, excluded and vulnerable population especially the Marathwada region in Maharashtra, regardless of their race, creed and gender. It strives to offer effective interventions in health. We have contributed Rs. 24.00 lakhs for 60 cancer screening camps.

9. Dhan Karunai Ilam-. Their mission is to build people and institutions for development innovations and scaling up to enable the poor communities for poverty reduction and self- reliance. GIC Re has been associated with Dhan Karunai Ilam since the last financial year. • We have already completed a project for construction of compound wall for the girl`s orphanage for Rs. 8.99 lakhs. • We have also contributed funds for construction of boy`s hostel, compound wall and a workshop building for apprx Rs. 2.00cr.

10. Deep Vidya Mandir Samiti - is an NGO for the empowerment of the people in the underserved rural areas for the past 25 years. They work in the field of Rural and urban Development, Health, Education and Hunger Dedication plan of child or eradication of social Evils. GIC Re has contributed funds for a van and an ambulance. The ambulance will be used to ferry the needy patients in the area and the accident victims to the government run hospitals. The van will be used to ferry disabled children to and fro to school. GIC re s contribution stands at Rs. 23.00 lakhs approx.

11. Impact India Foundation -Their aim is to act in partnership with the Govt of India as a catalyst to bring together NGOs, Corporate Sectors, Professionals and the Community in mass health projects of national priority using the existing systems and infrastructure. GIC Re sponsored the 195th The Lifeline Express (LLE) at Varanasi, UP. The aim was to provide free and modern medical care to the rural and tribal people. GIC Re contributed approx Rs. 57.00 lakhs for this health care programme wherein 5419 persons treated/ or screened.

12. Kerala- Chief Ministers Flood -The state of Kerala was hit by flood in the first week of August 2018. The state was in the midst of an unprecedented flood havoc which caused immeasurable misery and devastation and loss of human lives, infrastructure and crop damages have been reported. GIC Re contributed Rs. 3.00cr for this national disaster.

13. Kendriya Sainik Board: - is the apex body of the Central Govt which looks after the welfare of War-Widows, Armed Forces Veterans (AFVs) and their dependents across the country. The mission of KSB is to provide welfare to the Ex-Servicemen (ESM), Widows, Disabled and Dependents of Armed Forces Veterans and undertake rehabilitation, resettlement and crate re-employment opportunities near his/ her place of residence. GIC Re will be contributing Rs. 9.60cr against penury for 2000 beneficiaries for one year.

14. Language & Learning Foundation - is an education centered NGO where the focus is to upgrade the skills, talents and positive attitude of the teachers working in Government Schools in rural areas through Capacity Building Programmes. We have contributed funds for capacity building and resource package for the Government School Teachers in Chhattisgarh and Haryana. The total project cost was Rs. 47.50 lakhs.

15. Masoom - strives to improve the learning environment and the future prospects amongst the less privileged students of the night schools who work during the day and attend the school at night. Masoom functions in 174-night schools across Mumbai, Pune, Ahmednagar. Night Schools run in the evening from 6.30 pm to 9.30 pm, to serve the migrant/ working class population of the city who have either dropped out of school in earlier grades or have never gone to school. These students cannot go to day school as they are working during the day or age barriers. GIC Re has contributed Rs 46.00 lakhs approx. to bear the partial cost of the 12-night schools. The project will be effective in the next academic year (FY 19-20).

16. NARMADA Nimar Abhyudaya Rural Management and Development Association- was started by Ms. Bharati Thakur in 1995 in Mandaleshwar in Madhya Pradesh. Their focus is on education basically formal and informal education to help and motivate children for schooling. GIC Re has helped them construct a ground +2 structure for a school and provided 2 vehicles. The approx. cost of the project is pegged at Rs. 1.45 cr.

17. NIA Scholarships - GIC Re used to support 50% of the fee structure for meritorious students of the PGDM course in NIA (National Insurance Academy). This financial year 3 students were supported. We contributed approx. Rs. 5.61 lakhs.

18. Contribution to Nagaland Floods - The North-Eastern state of Nagaland is reeling under the effects of severe flooding and landslides. At least 359 locations across the state have been completely cut off, with Kiphere, Tuensang and Phek, bordering Myanmar, isolated for more than 15 days. GIC Re contributed Rs. 3.00 cr for this national disaster.

19. Parivaar Education Society -is a humanitarian organization inspired by the spiritual and humanistic ideals of Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda, with its chief institutions based in West Bengal, and a recent second branch in Madhya Pradesh. Parivaar has worked towards the total care and overall development of children who are highly vulnerable to exploitation, victimization and trafficking, including orphans, street children, abandoned children and extremely impoverished children from tribal areas. We have funded informal education for 2497 tribal children in Devas district of MP which approx. comes to Rs. 2.92 cr.

20. Ramakrishna Sarada Mission Matri Bhavan - is a woman centered and women empowered institution. It is run fully by women and it seeks to serve poor women and children. Last year it served 45,000 women & children patients through its multi-specialty 100 Bed hospital in . It is a charitable hospital which provides high quality medical care either free or at concessional rates or at rates much below the market rates. We have given then funds to purchase 5 vehicles amounting to Rs. 59.00 lakhs.

21. Ramakrishna Seva Mission, Vrindavan - The major focus is on health care services for the poor – they have a 240-bedded charitable hospital in Vrindavan. GIC Re has 2 projects with them • Sponsorship of 90 students (i.e. 30 girls each in first, second and third year) for the academic year 2018 – 19 starting on 01.10.2018. The programme would aid in skill development (nursing); Women Empowerment GIC Re has contributed Rs. 24.75 lakhs. • Installation of Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) Power Plant at Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama (Charitable Hospital), Vrindavan (UP) cost approx. Rs. 1.26 cr. This plant will be used to harness renewable energy and the generation would be utilized for self-consumption by the hospital in service of poor and unprivileged people of the region.

22. Rural Development Trust - has been implementing program activities across various sectors in 3268 villages spread across 102 Revenue Mandals in 4 districts of Andhra Pradesh. The construction of the micro bacterial lab was completed in June 2018. The project in totality costed around RRs. 68.00 lakhs.

23. RAIL Sahyog -The Corporation has gone out of the way to associate with Indian Railways and to try and upgrade their infrastructure, technology and hygiene. Railways had requested for possible collaboration with them for the various initiatives which would impact a large number of people not just the passengers but the entire community living around approximately 8700 stations across the country. 10,000 ten seater benches will be installed across various stations on pan India locations. The total cost of the project is approx. Rs. 52.00 cr.

24. Swachhata Pakhwada- was started in April 2016 with the objective of bringing a fortnight of intense focus on the issues and practices of Swachhata by engaging GOI Ministries/Departments in their jurisdictions. We also come in the same bracket and observe the fortnight diligently. CSR department had organised a lecture on Swachhata Pakhwada by Adv. Afroz Shah, Champion of the Earth, United Nations (UNEP) & A noted expert in the field of Clean India movement today 24.01.2019 at 4.00 pm. He has requested GIC employees to volunteer some time for generating awareness among the youth who reside in the slums on the banks of Mithi river to fight the plastic menace.

25. Sri Sankaradeva Nethralaya - was established in Guwahati in the year 1994 with a mission to provide quality eye care services through state-of-the-art facilities to the people of the region at affordable cost and equal quality treatment at free of cost to economically unprivileged patients who cannot afford cost of treatment. GIC Re has contributed Rs. 1.15 cr for purchase of ophthalmic equipment.

26. Smile Foundation - GIC Re has initiated a mutli scale project through Smile Foundation to address health issues through their proposal ‘Mobile Medical Unit – Smile on Wheels (SoW)’. The project cost is Rs. 4,95,77,004/- and will be implemented in four locations i.e. 1. Kullu (Himachal Pradesh), 2. West Singhbhum (Jharkhand), 3. Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh) and 4. Mumbai (Maharashtra). The project spans over 3 years.

27. Shraddha Rehabilitation Foundation - focusses only on the wandering mentally ill destitute roaming on the streets of India since 1988. The mentally ill destitute picked up from the Mumbai-Pune belt off the streets, and other organisations. The beneficiaries are rehabilitated with various psychosocial interventions depending on their condition. GIC Re has contributed for sponsorship of 1200 destitute (and mentally ill) which amounts to Rs. 2.84 cr approx.

28. Samaritan Help Mission - is a NGO that has been working in densely-populated, impoverished slums in the Howrah District of West Bengal for 17 years. Its main operations began in Tikiapara in 2001. GIC Re has been associated with SHM in the last few years. This year, the Corporation has funded for two projects • Contribution of funds for the construction of a new school building (Ground Floor + 2 Floors) for Samaritan Public School, Bankra along with full infrastructure for Nursery to Class XII standards. The approx. cost of the project is Rs. 3.36 cr. • Upgradation of the existing Rebecca Belilious Charitable Dispensary into Rebecca Belilious Charitable Day Care Hospital with Training and Paramedics. The cost of the project is approx. RS. 1.51 cr.

28. Satya Special School - The school basically caters to special children in the urban and rural areas of Pondicherry. Their aim is to provide good quality, affordable education and therapy through their well-equipped specialty center. The school caters to approx 929 special children. They have 9 centres in Pondicherry - 6 urban and 3 rural centres. GIC has contributed funds for purchase of 2 vans which costed approx. Rs. 24.86 lakhs.

29. Samarthanum Trust for the Blind - It caters to people in need by providing numerous services including quality education, accommodation, nutritious food, vocational training, sports and placement-based rehabilitation. We have collaborated with them for renewable energy. Installation of solar panels were sanctioned for them for approx. Rs. 24.50 lakhs.

30. S.P. Medical college and P.B. M. Associated Group of Hospitals - a government run hospital in Bikaner, Rajasthan. We have agreed to contribute funds for installation of their solar system which would eventually help them in reducing their electricity bills. The approx. cost of the project is Rs. 3.67 cr.

31. Sainik School Kazhakootam -The concept of the Sainik School originated in the visionary mind of late V K Krishna Menon, who was our Defence Minister in the early sixties. They aim to establish Sainik Schools originated in order to serve as an ideal residential educational institution for the deserving intelligent sections of the boys, hailing especially from the rural areas of our country. Preparing boys academically, physically and mentally for entry into the National Defence Academy. We have contributed Rs. 20.00 lakhs for digitalisation of their classrooms.

32. Shree Pragnachakshu Mahila Seva Kunj- is one of the organisations which work in the field of visual impairment. SPMSK has 4 branches – one each in Umargaon, Surendra Nagar, Morvi and Ahmedabad, basically catering to girls, boys and women with visual disabilities. We have contributed funds for one 33-seater bus to ferry the blind girls going to the college as well as when they need to be dropped off for various programmes or hospital and one Premium Solar Water Heating System at Umargaon Branch. The total cost of both the projects is Rs. 31.00 lakh approx.

33. Seva Mandir: is running 151 Shiksha Kendras providing education to 6000 children in the tribal areas of Udaipur and Rajsamand district. The program includes stipend of teachers, study material, capacity building of teachers, evaluations, research, program expertise, monitoring etc. which is managed by Seva Mandir. We have contributed approx. Rs. 7.57 lakhs for providing school bags to children in 115 Shiksha Kendra school for children up to 5th std.

34. Stree Mukti Sanghatana - has been working towards women empowerment for over four decades now. It strives to eliminate all kinds of gender discrimination and to achieve equality, social justice and equal status and further endeavours to translate the rights conferred by the constitution of India into reality by conducting various programmes and activities. With the basic aim for waste segregation, they supplied waste bins at J. J. Hospital situated at Byculla, Mumbai. The approx. cost of the project is Rs. 3.74 lakhs.

35. SankalpTaru Foundation- is a ngo that initiates, develops and manages reforestation and environmental conservation projects across India. We had initiated 2 projects on planation with them – at Barnmer , Rajasthan and Leh Ladakh, JK. The objectives of these programmes were 1). To develop a plantation based rural livelihood program, 2) To foster existing plant species and 3) Promotion of biodiversity in the area. The projects were commenced in FY 15- 16 and reached completion this year. GIC Re has contributed Rs. 15.00 lakhs apporx for these 2 projects.

36. The Akshaya Patra Foundation- meals meet the nutritional requirements of children, complying with the government norms as per the recommendations of qualified nutritionists. Their kitchens are technology-intensive, and can cook a minimum of 100,000 meals in less than four and a half hours with minimum human intervention and sustained quality. The cooked food is distributed through heat-insulated, dust-free special purpose vehicles.GIC Re has contributed funds for three projects- • Midday meal support for 19800 students at Rourkela and Puri for the FY 18-19 amounting to Rs. 1.82 cr. • Rs. 4.85 crs for feeding 45500 students across Bhillai, Chhattisgarh; Nathdwara, Rajasthan; Nayagarh and Rourkela, Odisha; and Vrindavan, UP; Hubli, Karnataka; Guwahati, Assam. The project is for the current academic year. • TAPF in co-operation with the Pondicherry Government, will be constructing a new rice based Centralized Kitchen which will serve approximately 50,000 government school children every day once the it reaches its highest capacity. GIC Re has committed to 50% of the project cost which amounts to Rs. 5.92 cr. The co-sponsor for this project is New India Assurance Co Ltd.

37. TATA Memorial Centre - TMC is a premier cancer care facility in India which has been at the forefront in the fight against cancer since the past 75 years. They aim to provide comprehensive care in the field of cancer. GIC Re has contributed for 3 projects • Rs. 6.30 cr over a period of 5 years. The project basically aims at women suffering from breast cancer. Approx. 200 women per year will benefit from this programme. • We have also contributed funds for DDPCR which in layman` terms – machine for liquid biopsy. Invasive surgery will be avoided as a result of this machine costing approx. Rs 49 lakhs and • endoscopic machine which is used for head and neck cancer which costs around Rs. 48 lakhs.

38. Vanarai -Their major activity of Vanarai involves transforming wasteland into productive, fertile land. GIC Re contributed approx. Rs. 58,000/- for plantation drive conducted at Valhe village, Pune, Maharashtra.

39. Yerawada Jail Plantation- The first direct activity for the current year was conducted in the Yerawada Open Jail, Pune Maharashtra on 28.07.18. 500 mango saplings were planted. Rs. 3.25 lakhs were spent on this activity.