Our Commitments

Torrent Group concentrates its efforts diligently in the areas of:

• Community Health care, Sanitation and Hygiene
• Education and Knowledge Enhancement
• Arts, Culture and Wellbeing
• Ecology

The CSR activities are mainly confined at the places where Group’s headquarters are situated and locations in and around its operations so that the twin objectives of service to the neighbourhood & the community along with involving the individual & collective will and efforts of the Torrent Family can be achieved.

UNMICRC

U.N. Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre (UNMICRC)– Established in 1996 along with Govt. of Gujarat it has been serving the needy for more than 27 years. Started from 75 IPD beds in 1996 to 1200 IPD beds in 2023 it Conducts 2,50,000+ OPDs, 40,000+ IPDs and 6,000+ surgeries each year. UNMICRC is a state-of-the-art cardiac hospital at Ahmedabad (Gujarat) where treatment is rendered to all patients, particularly the economically disadvantaged. Free Cardiac treatment is provided to Gujarat domiciled children and patients from the weaker strata.

Apart from Hospital Infrastructure development, Torrent's Patient Care Initiative Programme at UNMICRC has resulted in effective service delivery and better hospital management.

Other healthcare initiatives

• Medical OPD at Indrad village in Gujarat
• Primary care to women and malnourished children in the urban slum population in the area of Sabarmati at Ahmedabad (Gujarat) is being provided through OPD and Mobile Health Van.
• Upgradation and renovation of Municipal maternity home and ESIC hospital, Ahmedabad.
• In 2001, as part of earthquake rehabilitation, a 60-bed hospital was constructed in Kutch, Gujarat, to support the victims.
• Cleanliness and sanitation drive including awareness creation in villages surrounding SUGEN and DGEN Plants.

Abhivyakti

Initiated by the UNM Foundation, Abhivyakti has always focused on identifying and showcasing only original multi-disciplinary works of art that have played a vital role in redefining Ahmedabad’s artistic culture and given the city’s indigenous creative minds a podium to show their expressions. The idea for creating a platform such as Abhivyakti arose from the understanding that it is necessary to make art available and accessible to people from all social strata. Historically, the ability to enjoy art is associated to a position of privilege. It is to debunk this construction that Abhivyakti pursues to reach out to a more heterogeneous group of audience. Every individual finds themselves with an unquenchable desire to voice their minds and to express thought. We provide a medium that enables dialogue around this and further pushes us to ask new questions.

Abhivyakti encompasses many myriad art forms ranging from dance, music, painting, photography, installations and theatre with an aim to bring international quality art to the people, absolutely free.

To read more: http://www.abhivyaktiart.org/

Shikshasetu

Shikshasetu: A Teaching-Learning Enhancement Programme

Initiated in year 2011 the Programme aims to improve quality of learning among students in the arena of primary education. In a span of 13 years, the programme has reached 45 primary schools in 40+ villages of Gujarat, 250+ teachers and more than 15000 students and 3500+ parents from economically disadvantaged sections of the rural communities and urban slums. The programme has four main components:

• Assessing the learning levels of each student & identifying gaps
• Providing continuous support and capacity building of teachers in teaching pedagogies, soft skills and ICT based teaching tool
• Providing ICT based adaptive learning tool to students
• Community mobilization for spreading awareness about the importance of education
• Vocational skill development programs
• Transformative approach towards learning Maths and Gujarati

Shardashish: Enhancing School Infrastructure

Under Shardashish initiative various activities like construction of new buildings with state of art facilities, strengthening and modification of existing school infrastructure, mid-day meals and working towards improving delivery and overall management of the school premises have been carried out. Total of 141 rooms in 6 schools (Primary, Secondary and High Secondary levels) benefiting 4000 students have been built which includes:

• Shardashish High School at Chhapi : A new building with 39 rooms including classrooms, science and computer labs, assembly hall and playground has been constructed for making it one of the biggest high schools of Gujarat.
• Shardashish High School at Memadpur : was renovated by strengthening and modifying the earlier school.
• Sharda Mandir Primary School, Indrad : A state of art new building with 22 classrooms, computer labs, and mid-day meals kitchen shed was constructed for in the year 2010.
• Primary School at Akhakhol, Surat : Before intervention of Torrent, the primary school at Akhakhol was a 2 room school. In the year 2013, a new school building with 8 classrooms covering shed and other utilities was constructed. With increase in number of parents enrolling their children in Akhakhol primary school post renovation and consistent increase in attendance, the school now runs up to 8th standard with separate classroom for each standard.
• Baddi School & Community Development Work, Baddi : The Baddi school is situated near the Torrent Group Company’s Pharma plant at Baddi in the State of Himachal Pradesh (India). The Company has been supporting the school since long to ensure proper infrastructure and also personality development of the students by conducting various programmes through involvement of employees and to provide other support with respect to extra-curricular activities and academics. Various community development works at Baddi or its nearby areas are also undertaken directly or along with other organisations..
• School, Panchayat and other infrastructure facilities at Sikkim : Upgradation of School and Panchayat buildings and other infrastructure facilities are required at Sikkim for which the Group contemplates to contribute towards the above activities.

Though providing infrastructure and state of art facilities is an important contribution, however, it is equally important to provide quality learning to the students and improve the soft skills of students as well as teachers in primary education.

Government teachers are trained to teach students through innovative and interactive pedagogies / methodologies, so that students, while gaining conceptual clarity find learning interesting. The cumulative improvement in the learning level was assessed to be 53.18% in the programme’s Phase I (2011-16).

Based on the learnings from Phase I, and feedbacks received from teachers, additional facilities and activities were added in Phase II. The Programme additionally provides for smart digital classrooms, digital aided learning for five subjects through tablets instead of two subjects earlier, enhancing of soft skills of teachers and Parents’ sensitization in children’s education.

Ujaas

Ujaas - An Initiative for Supporting Old age homes.

Objective

• To improve the lives of senior citizens and contribute to the overall well-being of society
• To uplift the deprived sections of society by supporting and serving the elderly residing in care facilities
• To provide complete and quality care and to ensure that the resident senior citizens live with respect and dignity in a safe, secure, compassionate, friendly environment and surroundings.
• To provide companionship, emotional support, therapeutic occupation, recreation facilities and activities to overcome social isolation and loneliness.

Impact

Initiated in August 2023 under this initiative UNM Foundation has covered 106 Old Age Homes covering 5000+ inmates during more than 1000 visits to such homes by more than 1100 unique volunteers.

Pratiti

City parks play a vital role in the social, economic and physical wellbeing of the cities and their residents. As cities become more densely populated, parks are now recognized as powerful tools for active lifestyles and reduced health costs for the urban communities. Parks provide space for neighborhood residents to interact with each other and meet new people. This allows people to develop a sense of community.

The UNM Foundation along with LEAF, the research arm of Landscape India, formed a group ‘The Park’s People’ which also included many like-minded designers of the city. UNM Foundation and The Park’s people in association with the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation started Pratiti. Several parks have been developed so far, which are located in varied economic and social cross sections of the Ahmedabad city. Some are new parks and some are refurbished parks.

The Foundation has developed and is currently maintaining 15 beautifully landscaped gardens in the cities of Ahmedabad, Surat and Daman for the general benefit of citizens and increasing the green cover of the city. Work for more gardens is also underway

Each of these parks have been developed keeping in mind a unique design, by well-renowned team of architects. These parks have lush green lawn, various types of plants and facilities like walk-way, special enclosure for light games, exercise equipment and beautiful landscaping. Each park is protected by specially designed fencing and also have a special entrance facility for the differently abled people. Moreover each park is equipped with bore well and has recharge well to effectively use the rainwater.

Pratiti plans to continue with this initiative and have further plans to create many more parks including developing parks in impoverished neighborhoods.

2 Lakes across 2 cities have been restored / built at par with international standards.

Shetrunjay Hills, Palitana (Gujarat)

As part of this challenging Ecological restoration project, UNM Foundation endeavours to restore the Shetrunjay Hills, an extremely important ecological and religious site, to its lost glory.

Green Cover

• Over 43% of the total SUGEN Plant area and 40% of the total DGEN Plant area are under green cover as against statutory norm of 33%. Further, 50 meters of green periphery plantation has been undertaken against the norm of 30 meters at SUGEN. More than 1,28,000 trees of all sizes have been planted at SUGEN.
• Around 893 trees were transplanted with a healthy success rate of 77% during the construction of SUGEN Plant; during which period no trees were cut down.
• Trees were planted across 5500 sq. meters of land near SUGEN and the income generated from these plantations goes to the villagers.
• Mangroves were planted in 50 Hectares of land in Dahej to arrest the soil erosion in the coastal belt near DGEN Plant.
• The Company contemplates to contribute towards upgradation/ maintenance of infrastructure facilities and other activities to be carried out in Dahej (Gujarat), Vizag (Andhra Pradesh) & Pithampur (Madhya Pradesh) locations in India.

Green Initiatives:

• The formulations blocks of Torrent Pharma’s Dahej facility have been designed based on a detailed sun path analysis that reduces their exposure to sun thereby reducing the heat load for air conditioning. Besides, 33% of the total land area of the plant has been allocated for green cover.
• All manufacturing and research facilities of Torrent Pharma are zero discharge sites. All treated waste water and manure made out of the site's bio-degradable waste are used in the green areas within the site.
• Urja Dweep is a unique self-energizing residential complex based solely on green power at SUGEN Plant (Surat). It comprises: Swadhar (the medical centre), Jarul (a 48 apartment residential colony) and a Bio Gas plant for using the waste of the surroundings and consequently support the gas and electricity requirement of Swadhar and Jarul.
• Rain water harvesting to conserve and reuse water at SUGEN and DGEN Plants.