CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Progress that takes everyone along

At PNB Housing Finance, we believe in driving action towards the sustainable development of communities around us. Through Pehel Foundation, our dedicated CSR arm, we are executing our social vision and making a positive impact.

With the pandemic wreaking havoc on human health, we channelised our collective energy towards strengthening the healthcare infrastructure across various locations. We continued to support welfare projects for construction workers, and enabling children’s access to formal education by strengthening school infrastructure. We also worked on projects related to water conservation, increasing green cover, improving access to clean drinking water, and livelihood generation for women and persons with disability.

`23.22 CRORE

CSR spend in FY22

3.5 LAKH

CSR beneficiaries in FY22

SUPPORT DURING COVID-19

We remained steadfast in extending a helping hand to the nation during the recurrent COVID-19 waves, in the following ways:

  • Supported government hospitals by setting up a 50-bed ICU facility at Palwal, Haryana and 20-bed ICU facility at Raipur, Chhattisgarh
  • Set up PSA technology-based oxygen plant at a government hospital in Bhopal, MP
  • Provided one ambulance each at Agra and Delhi NCR as emergency pre-hospital medical care to the underprivileged, benefiting 150+ persons during the time

STRENGTHENING INDIA'S HEALTHCARE INFRASTRUCTURE

Recognising the need to put up a strong front in the face of the pandemic and future health crises, we contributed in the following ways:

  • Upgraded infrastructure of 5 Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs)/Community Health Centres (CHCs) in semi-urban locations near Chennai, Udaipur, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Noida by providing modern healthcare equipment and improving civil infrastructure
  • Provided 3D printing and 3D scanning devices in prosthetics and related areas to National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Multiple Disabilities (NIPMED), Chennai which significantly impacted the quality of life for individuals with missing limbs through the creation of customised affordable prosthetics
  • Upgraded a blood bank in Hyderabad in partnership with Give India by providing automated blood screening devices for children with Thalassemia
  • Set up a state-of-the art facility in Hyderabad, in partnership with Give India, to offer advanced ear and hearing care services to the underprivileged and address hearing and associated problems in people with hearing impairment

PROMOTING QUALITY EDUCATION THROUGH INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT

Our aim is to bring education opportunities to young people with potential. We are helping strengthen infrastructure at several schools in association with NGOs. Some of our efforts include:

  • Supported Lotus Petal Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation for the construction of a new campus to provide education and skill development for 17,000 children from less privileged backgrounds in the outskirts of Gurugram in Village Dhunela
  • Developed 20 remote teaching units, in partnership with Lotus Petal Foundation, to run online interactive classes for ~75 government schools across Haryana
  • Supported the operational cost of running two formal schools in Delhi, in partnership with Vidya, a not-for-profit organisation, for the education and empowerment of underprivileged children
  • Backed the Niramaya Charitable Trust to renovate five Anganwadi centres into Pehel Smart Anganwadi centres for improved learning, growth and health outcomes for children in the outskirts of Ahmedabad, Gujarat
  • Supported Spherule, a not-for-profit organisation, in transforming three government schools into smart schools by facilitating the development of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) laboratories, digital classrooms and playgrounds
  • Aided Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram, a not-for-profit organisation working to uplift indigenous girl students, through the restoration of a residential facility in Nashik, Maharashtra
17,000

Children were given education and skill development opportunities

10,000

Construction workers impacted through two welfare schemes

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION AND WATER MANAGEMENT

Our responsibilities as a model corporate citizen extends to the natural environment around us and some of the measures we have undertaken are as follows:

  • Partnered with Manjari Foundation to provide access to safe drinking water supply to 200 households in two villages of Chittorgarh, Rajasthan
  • Set up five community-level, decentralised water ATMs to create affordable access to safe drinking water in villages around Ahmedabad, Gurugram and Udaipur districts in partnership with SMEC Trust
  • Initiated Jal Khushali II and partnered with SM Sehgal for the development of two pond structures in Baretha village in Morar Block in Gwalior, and Nareshwar Village in Morena Block in Madhya Pradesh
  • To strengthen our commitment towards environment conservation, we partnered with SMEC Trust in planting (Miyawaki technique) 6,300 saplings in Bengaluru and 2,000 in Narela, New Delhi
  • Partnered with Give India to set up Integrated Waste Management (IWM) system with provisions of composting machine and a waste collection vehicle at Dehradun, Uttarakhand

BRINGING HOLISTIC WELFARE FOR CONSTRUCTION WORKERS

We are always striving to find ways to make a positive difference to the lives of those integral to the housing ecosystem. Some of our efforts include:

  • Partnered with CREDAI and DB Tech to impart high quality skill training in construction related trades, improving livelihood opportunities for 1,000 candidates
  • Improve skilling infrastructure for building construction trades and facilitate continuous skilling of building construction workforce
  • Supported DB Tech in setting up two physical training centres at Kanpur and Lucknow. We also partnered with JK Cement Nimbaheda Foundation for the development of Building Construction Excellence Lab, which is configured with modern training equipment and facilities in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
  • To enable access of construction workers to various entitlements and government schemes, we partnered with Haqdarshak and supported 10,000 construction workers pan India in accessing two eligible welfare schemes or documents for their empowerment