BWI: Fullerton India Bags 3 Awards for its CSR Initiatives

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Source: Fullerton India
Monday, July 01, 2013 04:27 PM IST (10:57 AM GMT)
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Fullerton India Bags 3 Awards for its CSR Initiatives


Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Monday, July 01, 2013 -- (Business Wire India) -- Fullerton India Credit Company Limited was honoured with three awards last weekend for its CSR work in the community. At the Responsible Business Summit 2013- June 28'13, Fullerton India won awards in two categories- 'Best Corporate Social Responsibility Practice' and 'Best Community Development Program'. The Responsible Business Summit is a symposium on sustainability and was attended by leading Indian corporates. Fullerton India won its third award at the Corporate Excellence Awards - June 29'13 for 'Best Community Development'. Endorsed by CMO Asia, the Corporate Excellence Awards are given out to corporates for excellence across all disciplines including Corporate Social Responsibility, IT, Finance & Marketing.

Fullerton India won the awards for the sustainable work that it has been doing in Rural India as part of its Livelihood Advancement Initiative. Deeply invested the development of rural India and its people, Fullerton India is committed towards development work amongst the communities it serves. It identifies programs in its rural branch catchment areas that have a sustained and positive impact on the community, thus helping the community to improve their income and standard of living.

As part of its CSR initiative, Fullerton India organises over 700 programs annually, benefitting more than 31,200 households last year alone.

Conceptualising Livelihood Programs with Partner organisations across disciplines, Fullerton India brings together Partner organisations like the Government, NGOs, Socio-Economic development organisations, Manufacturing and Trading organisations in the Private sector to implement the programs. Fullerton India's CSR programs and events are organised and run completely by its employees.

"Our CSR initiative is focussed on Rural Livelihood Advancement and designed to have a sustainable impact on its beneficiaries. These programs aimed at rural households are implemented by engaging over 2000 of our employees" said Ravi Shankar, EVP Rural Business, Marketing & CSR.

Fullerton India is one of India's leading Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFC). It has over 360 branches spread across 21 states in urban and rural centres. It offers several retail finance products for varying needs of customers in the locations it serves. Fullerton India has a widespread reach in Rural India through its network of 140 rural business branches called Gramshakti, which service over 15,000 villages. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fullerton Financial Holdings, Singapore, which is a subsidiary of Temasek Holdings of Singapore.



CONTACT DETAILS
Shreya Jha, VP Marketing & CSR, Fullerton India, +91 (22) 67491202, shreya.jha@fullertonindia.com
Manoj Awasthi, +91 9811135420, manojawasthi@gmail.com

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