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Biocon Ltd. focuses on healthcare, education, and civic infrastructure through its CSR activities. For healthcare, it works on preventative care, primary care by upgrading local clinics, and secondary/tertiary care through specialty hospitals. For education, it supports after-school learning centers. For infrastructure, it focuses on sanitation, upgrading schools, and flood relief.

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Biocon Ltd. focuses on healthcare, education, and civic infrastructure through its CSR activities. For healthcare, it works on preventative care, primary care by upgrading local clinics, and secondary/tertiary care through specialty hospitals. For education, it supports after-school learning centers. For infrastructure, it focuses on sanitation, upgrading schools, and flood relief.

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Importance of Corporate Social Responsibility and CSR activity

of Biocon Ltd.
Introduction:
There is a quote – “Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a
better place and not just take from it”. As we are living in a society where no human being
can lead his/her life happy without the help of other human beings and natural resources like
land, water and air for a single day, we should feel responsible towards the society rather than
doing it forcefully for the sake of gaining attention in the society. In a similar way every firm
which uses the man power as tool for production, natural resources as raw materials and
people living in the society as its source for revenue should be taking care of the man
power (who are employees), saving the natural resources by not polluting the land, water and
air and serving the needs of the people in the society. This responsibility of the firm towards
the people and nature is termed as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). It is an
inseparable component of the product being offered by the firm to the people.

There are many positive attributes by CSR activity of the firm which helps in the growth and
its sustainability in the society. A firm which takes care of its employees and their family
makes them feel proud and responsible towards the part of work they do in the firm which is
in turn responsible for the growth and development of the firm. A firm which serves the
people in the society by providing basic essential needs like Sponsoring the poor children
education to allow them shine with some bright colours, providing fresh water for drinking
purpose by establishing water treatment plants especially in rural areas for low cost and
adopting backward areas makes the people indebted for the generosity shown by the firm.
There are few firms which emphasize on the health of people and focus on disease
prevention. Biocon Ltd. is one among the firms which addressed chronic diseases like
cancer, diabetes and hypertension and malnutrition through its products.

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Biocon Ltd. and its CSR activity:

Dr. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, founder and chairperson of Biocon, funded many projects that
helped undeserved sections of rural and urban in India. She established Biocon foundation in
December,2004 to streamline her philanthropy and ensure that her donations were effectively
utilised for the eradication of poverty in India. As a part of CSR activity, Biocon foundation
has adopted an integrated approach to make an impact on the society by selecting three areas
– healthcare, education and civic infrastructure.

Healthcare:

Healthcare is classified into Preventive Health care, Primary Health care, Secondary &
Tertiary Health care.

1) Preventive Health care: This program focuses on


i) water borne & hygiene related illness like typhoid, Gastroenteritis and dengue
ii) chronic illness like Cardiovascular diseases, Diabetes, cancer and Tuberculosis
iii) Maternal & Childcare like Immunization, Anemia and Nutrition
2) Primary Health care: As a part of Primary health care Biocon foundation has created a
eLaj’s model which consists of improving and upgrading infrastructure of PHC’s,
renovating toilets & Labor rooms, recruiting doctors for PHC’s, training lab
technicians to use semi -automatic lab devices, digitizing patient records and mapping
to a unique ID to ensure continuum of care.
3) Secondary & Tertiary Healthcare: Under Secondary & Tertiary health care Biocon
foundation has set up Bangalore health city which consists of a heart hospital, an eye
hospital, an orthopaedic hospital. Mazumdar Shaw cancer Centre, a cancer hospital
with 1400 beds was set up in the health city premises to ensure affordable cancer care
to the patients.

Education:

In the area of education Aata Paata Wadi, is an after-school resource centre for under
privileged children designed for learning spoken English and as well as computer skills.
Around 192 children have benefited from this centre till date. Old clothes were also
distributed as a part of this program.

Civic Infrastructure:

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Under Civic infrastructure three issues were given utmost priority: Sanitation, Primary
schools and flood relief.

1) Sanitation: Biocon Foundation’s sanitation initiative was started in the year 2007 with
an aim to offer poor rural communities access to safe and sustainable sanitation
facilities. Biocon foundation is implementing a comprehensive Sanitation and hygiene
program in Huskur with an aim to ensure every household in the village has its own
private toilet and to encourage the use of toilets by making community members
understand the link between illness and unsanitary behaviour.
2) Primary Schools: Biocon Foundation has upgraded infrastructure of existing
Government schools in Anekul Taluk and has successfully upgraded 25 schools in the
first year. In Hebbagodi, Biocon has built a primary school and toilet blocks along
with facilitating the daily supply of water through BWSSB to people living around
Biocon campus. In Hennagara Gram Panchayat, Biocon has sponsored the
construction of two primary schools.
3) Flood relief: Biocon foundation has become a part of the Aasare project, proposed by
Karnataka government to build homes for families whose homes have been washed
away during the 2009 floods in Cholachagudda village at Badami Taluk of Bagalkot
district through public- private partnership.

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