Environmental,
Social &
Governance
Creating meaningful impact with social and sustainability programs
Movate is committed to making its operations sustainable and to respond effectively to its external impact. At Movate, we integrate CSR and sustainability into our core business strategy, and is designed to create value and positive change. The senior leadership of Movate including the board has made a firm commitment to CSR & sustainability. The senior management is also engaged in it. While sustainability and CSR have been a part of the culture at Movate, it is only recently that we have taken a concerted decision to formalize our efforts to create lasting impact. We have taken a long view to accelerate our efforts systematically over a 3-5 year horizon.
How we did it
Respect and responsibility towards people, community, and the natural environment will be central to our CSR. Movate is committed to assigning leadership and resources to CSR activities within its community and areas of influence. At Movate, we have identified four CSR focus areas:
List of CSR projects approved by the board of directors FY’24
Flip book – ESG Report – April 2023 to March 2024
ESG Report – April 2023 to March 2024
Learn more about Movate’s commitment to take the ESG Framework charter forward and create a better world tomorrow.
CSR Policy
List of Projects approved by the Board
Composition of CSR Committee
Education
Engaging & supporting education for underprivileged children, providing digital literacy programs, skill development, infrastructure support, and training for low-income groups. Skill development, training, infrastructure support, and support at colleges & institutions that enable employability.
Environment
sustainability
Ensuring environmental sustainability & protection, ecological balance, and conservation of natural resources.
Community
development
We believe in improving the lives of local communities and support their endeavors for sustainability, cleanliness drives, waste management, and green initiatives. If required skill development, infrastructure support, and training at communities will be provided to improve employability.
Support in times of need
Supporting relief and rehabilitation efforts arising out of a national disaster.‹›
What have we done?
Movate contributed to the St. Anna School in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, by providing nutritious meals, stitched uniforms, shoes, textbooks, bags, and other essential supplies to the school children. Movators were encouraged to donate school kits and sports items.
Movate collaborated with The Akshaya Patra Foundation (TAPF) to provide nutritious meals for the students of the GMPS Immadi Halli Middle School (GIHMS) in Bengaluru, India. Movators joined hands with the TAPF team to provide over 100,000 mid-day meals. The initiative aims to solve problems related to government school children taking timely meals, hunger, and nutrition. After all, every school kid deserves a healthy and balanced meal. Movate provided school kits and uniforms as well. This initiative promotes a healthy environment to help kids concentrate and learn.
For more details, contact ESG.Global@movate.com or Shelton.victor@movate.com
In June 2024, against the backdrop of the World Environment Day 2024’s theme, “Land Restoration: Combatting Desertification & Drought,” Movate organized an awareness campaign at its offices. With the support of an independent global campaigning organization, Movate helped set up a kiosk to interact one-on-one with employees on climate change, the present environmental threat, and the necessary course of action.
Other awareness goals covered taking a pledge to make sustainable choices, converting compost from wet waste at home, seeds, and sapling distribution to encourage kitchen gardening, waste segregation, games on sustainability, crossword puzzles, VR (Virtual Reality) demos on the current realities, petitioning online for a cleaner environment and considering donations to support various initiatives.
A total of 750 Movators participated in the interactions across all India-based offices in Chennai, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad.
Movate has signed an MoU with Loyola College to set up an AI & IoT based advanced Robotics Lab at the college with the help of an implementation partner, Yagen Robotics. Movate’s EVP & CFO, Ramaseshan K, stated how the facility would benefit the industry by creating a talented pool of skilled professionals in the area of robotics. A. Louis Arockiaraj SJ, principal, Loyola College, envisioned how the lab would help the students in their computer science, data science, and related streams. Fr. Dr. B. Jeyaraj, Secretary & Correspondent of Loyola College, and Benedict Arokiasamy, SVP & Head – Learning & Development, Campus & Institutional Alliances, Movate, also graced the occasion and envisioned bright prospects for the talent community. Read the press release for more details on the facility and partnership.
Movate set up a Pride Café at Bangalore, India, on Friday, February 16th, 2024. The café is a hospitality initiative with the aim of changing traditional views about the LGBTIAQ+ community. While the café offers a safe space to socialize and network with one another, it also helps employees and members of the café to work, grow, and contribute to society as agents of change. The facility provides them with much-needed visibility in society. EVP & Chief People Officer, Anish Philip, graced the launch of the café alongside team members and volunteers from Movate. For more details, contact ESG.Global@movate.com or Shelton.victor@movate.com
A conducive environment for learning and growth matters. Movate helped spruce up the academic facilities at Byatarayanapura Government high school and Byatarayanapura Government Primary School in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Revitalizing the floors with new tiles, applying fresh wall paint, setting up furniture & fixtures, establishing a computer lab (digital learning center), and providing marching band sets and sports equipment were a few of the enhancements among the others. Many Movators came together and coordinated across various tasks to give the school a fresh look and feel. Volunteers were encouragedto donate educational kits and other relevant materials to the students. The refurbished school was scheduled to be handed over to the authorities on February 3, 2024. For more details, contact ESG.Global@movate.com or Shelton.victor@movate.com
Movate extended healthcare support for the transgender and marginalized communities in Hyderabad, India on the 8th and 9th of December 2023. Movators volunteered and coordinated across various tasks to ensure the drive was a successful one. The camp covered eye and health screening services and provided spectacles to those in need. Food kits were distributed during the drive. This two-day camp on Friday and Saturday covered approximately 400 people from various communities. For more details, contact ESG.Global@movate.com or Shelton.victor@movate.com
Reflecting the spirit of respect and care, Movate donated essential equipment: a freezer with a cooler, insulated pasteurizers, a steamer, and a colander to Anandam Old Age Home. Movate continues to provide for the well-being of senior citizens who need our support.
Movate handed over 5 battery-operated wheelchairs to persons with disabilities (PWD). Training was provided to various beneficiaries on how to operate the wheelchairs. This unique equipment liberates the differently abled to work and do their daily chores.
Movate’s EVP and CFO, Ramaseshan K; EVP & Chief Delivery Officer (CDO), Anantha Padmanabhan, graced the occasion and flagged off a new journey for the beneficiaries.
Movate supported The Akshaya Patra Foundation (TAPF) towards establishing a webpage and mobile (IOS & Android) enabled platform to manage 61 kitchen operations in India. Movate’s technology-based solution for the TAPF’s quality team enables data points such as food-related parameters on the cooking floor, customer satisfaction survey, and cook-to-consumption time, etc., to be instantly captured digitally instead of paper, thereby enabling savings of paper equivalent to 900,000sheets of paper.
Movate celebrated World Environment Day by planting 3000+ native saplings at the Aaavin milk dairy farm. All the saplings will be nurtured and cared for by Movate.
At Movate recycling, reusing, and upcycling is the way to go. Movators were requested to drop used materials like clothes fabrics, books, mildly used toys, sports goods and similar items in a collection box placed across facilities. Around 300 Kilograms of materials were collected and handed over to the beneficiaries of these items.
As is known to all, in a world that is totally digitized, computer knowledge is essential from a very basic age. Computers aid the development of children in many different ways: vocabulary and language development, phonological awareness, understanding of books, knowledge of letters and words, enjoyment of literacy, number concepts, patterns and relationships, measurements, visual arts, and much more. We at Movate have extended our support towards the setting up of a computer lab at St. Anna School, Chennai, thus educating the school and molding the students to be computer literate. We are also providing desktop computers, UPS, internet connection, tables, chairs, air conditioners, painting, mural art, teacher tables, floor renovation, lighting, entrance readiness, cupboards, and many other utilities. We have extended our support in controlling rainwater leakages in the classrooms.
Installing two solar-operated cloth bag vending machines. The vending machine can accommodate 500 cloth bags and each bag can hold up to 5 kg weight. The same can be collected from the vending machine by inserting a Rs 10 coin or note or even making payments through UPI. The initiative aims to solve two main pressing issues, i.e., eliminating single-use plastics and reducing unemployment issues among women self-help groups.
Setting up three AAVIN shops for women beneficiaries.
Employment-based training in appian platform to Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) and women beneficiaries
Movators visited St. Anna School, Chennai, India to support a great cause. During the visit, we provided beneficial materials to over 150 children belonging to the school and the orphanage. The children and the staff in charge were served an appetizing lunch with dessert. Following this, the CSR Movators distributed backpacks, shoes, and goodies to all the children. The school offers free education to orphaned children.
KBR Park is located in Jubilee Hills in Hyderabad. The park has an approximate area of 390-acre. In a city that’s rapidly losing its green cover, this park is one of the few large, surviving open space areas. On average, close to 500 people use the facilities daily at the park. Installing the RO plant has provided the walkers and visitors access to clean and purified water.
The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) center plays a tremendous role in the lives of women as the main concern of the women taking up a job is childcare. The ICDS scheme comes under the purview of Gender Responsive Public Services. The estimated population in that vicinity is 95,000 this includes people from across Chennai and the nearby districts. Movate refurbished two Anganwadi Centers and provides the necessary facilities for childcare.
Movators identified families migrated from various places to areas around construction sites to make a livelihood. We extended a helping hand to support these communities by providing them with basic amenities and groceries.
Medical camps across Hyderabad were conducted as part of eye and preliminary health screening for the transgender (TG) community. 370 people of the community were benefitted through nine drives in collaboration with LV Prasad Eye Hospital. 30 spectacles were donated after a special eye camp. The drive was initiated on March 12th, 2022 and concluded on March 31st, 2022 – A day dedicated as International Transgender Day of Visibility
Movate installs Solar Panels with battery back up at The Government Urdu Model Primary School (GUMPS), Bangalore, Karnataka. The installed capacity is 1100 Watts which covers fans, lights and a computer system. The school had a requirement to provide power supply for light bulbs alone due to the frequent outages in the locality. We have extended our support to a few selected fans and also a computer during this installation. The connected points will draw power from solar energy whenever electricity is cut off from the grid. For normal usage, the system will operate on solar power. This arrangement ensures classes to operate normally during power outages and thus experience considerable reduction in carbon emissions. This system has been provided with an AMC package for three years, starting from the second year onwards.
In the heart of every child is a hunger for home. Not just for food and a place to sleep, but for safety and community. Most importantly: for love. ALL THE CHILDREN organization , an Indian social improvement association, is straightforwardly benefitting more than 80 children and 50 senior citizens consistently. From medical care, to fitting social conduct, to understanding one’s privileges – ALL THE CHILDREN organization looks to teach, enable and develop better residents.
Movate extended support to “All The Children Home (ATC)” at Chennai by donating two month groceries, school bags for children, washing machines and boxing kits. The children at this home have no kith nor kin and have no place to reside. This organisation provides quality education, boxing training, dancing classes, food, regular workshops on arts etc. for the resident children at the home. Apart from this the home also supports the requirements of elderly people.
Donating cooking pulverisers for grinding rice, wheat and masala to Anandam Old Age Home. These machines will support automation of the cooking process for 100 plus senior citizens and the working staff. The food is prepared by the residents. This is a free home for senior citizens who have no family members to take care of them. The home supports healthcare, stay and quality food to all inmates at no cost.
Supporting a home for special children which provides the needs and shelter to the girl children, who are orphaned being intellectually challenged while some of them are crippled and disabled. Many of the disabled children have gone through difficult times with many disturbing incidents to recall.
The Aram Charitable Trust with a moto to protect and promote the right and dignity of people who are marginalized and ignored, is taking care of the girl children providing learning skills under the guidance of a dedicated & trained coach. We have extended our hands towards refurbishing the entire room with interior painting, wall graphics, hospital based cots with mattress, fans, lights, television and also a door.
We have planted 1500 tree saplings at National Security Guard (NSG) regional hub campus at Vandalur, Chennai. 15 varieties of native tree species were chosen for the plantation. Pre-site preparation and plantation was carried out involving 110 plus volunteers from Movate & their family members, friends, NCC cadets, NSG commandos and general public. All these saplings were planted on a hillock and will be nurtured for successful survival.
We have donated therapy equipment and material to Jeyam Special School at Padi, Chennai. The school specializes in providing government-approved formal training to children with special needs. More than 25 essential requirements including a treadmill, a static cycle, dexterity boards for finger exercise, medicine balls etc. were donated to the school.
Supporting water, sanitation and hygiene related needs across Government Schools
A school and its environment is the basis of growth for children. Proper restrooms and safe drinking water at schools will ensure more turnout of students. Movate constructed & handed over three toilets, commissioned RO water drinking system and will monitor the quality of water for the next two years. The schools benefited are:
Government High School Hoodi Main Road, Hoodi | Government High School Stage II, Kengeri Satellite Town | Government High School Kumalgod |
Three washrooms | 50LPH RO water system with 200 Litre storage capacity | 50LPH RO water system with 200 Litre storage capacity |
Movate has planted 1500 tree saplings inside National Security Guard (NSG) campus at Vandalur, Chennai on 75th Independence Day. About 150 people participated in the drive which involved Movate employees and their families, friends along with NSG commandos and public.
With the rising scarcity in access to basic healthcare facilities and equipment’s during the pandemic, we contributed oxygen concentrators, nasal cannulas, masks, and gloves to Kilpauk Medical College & Hospital, Chennai; Rotary Club of Bangalore and Ashray Akruthi, NGO in Hyderabad. Movate contributed:
- 6 oxygen concentrator devices
- 150 Nasal cannulas
- 1000 pairs of nitrile gloves
- 1000 pairs of latex gloves
- 500 N-95 masks
A school and its environment is the basis of growth for children. Lack of access to proper sanitation facilities poses a huge barrier to education as children frequently forego school due to hygiene-related diseases. Restrooms and proper washing stations can help prevent the spread of many diseases and parasites. Restrooms play a key role in creating a safe and healthy school environment where children can focus on learning. We are glad to announce that we have constructed and handed over five restrooms to The Government Model Primary School at Bangalore.
Movate has planted 2500 tree saplings inside CRPF campus at Avadi, Chennai. CRPF enables the government of India to maintain Rule of Law, Public Order and Internal Security effectively and efficiently, to Preserve National Integrity and Promote Social Harmony and Development by upholding supremacy of the Constitution.
At CRPF, we adopted the “Miyawaki method” which is a unique technique to grow dense forests. Under the approach, dozens of native species are planted in the same area, close to each other, which ensures that the plants receive sunlight only from the top, and grow upwards than sideways.
Native trees from India, which are fruit bearing and pollinating were planted. These saplings once matured will increase our quality of life by bringing natural elements and wildlife habitats into urban settings. They also act as natural water reservoirs and help conserve and replenish ground water. For the event, 55 sapling varieties were chosen and 2500 saplings were planted.
To achieve this feat, 265 plus volunteers from Movate & family members, CRPF Javans, NCC cadets and public were part of this plantation drive. These saplings will be maintained for next two years.
Movate donates personal address sound systems, computer with UPS, printers and cartridges across four government schools.
Movate donates groceries to old age home at Ambattur and refrigerator, computer, colour printer and cartridges to Palliative and Hospice care at Manali
Movate has planted 1500 tree saplings inside National Security Guard (NSG) campus at Vandalur, Chennai. NSG is a federal contingency world class zero error force to deal with anti-terrorist activities in all its manifestations. This NSG base is mainly used to train elite commandos to counter terrorism.
The area for tree plantation in the NSG campus is a raised terrain. Miyawaki type plantation concept was adopted, over a period of time the saplings will grow in to a dense rain forests. Native trees from India, which are fruit bearing and pollinating were planted. These forests will serve as a natural habitat for animals with food and shade. They also act as natural water reservoirs and help conserve and replenish ground water. For the event, 12 sapling varieties were chosen and 1500 saplings were planted.
To achieve this feat, 160 plus volunteers from Movate along with their family / friends, NCC cadets and public were part of this plantation drive. Theses saplings will be maintained for next two year.
Movate in its fight against COVID 19, has supported Voluntary Health Services (VHS) Hospital at Tharamani, Chennai towards donating MISPA – i2 medical equipment which helps in detecting D-Dimer levels and 750 numbers (500ml each) of hand sanitizers. D-Dimer machine has reduced the sampling TAT from 6 hours to 5 minutes resulting in saving time, cost and human lives