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In our relentless pursuit to drive transformative change in the deserving less privileged and marginalized communities, National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) has been carrying on various socio-economic developmental projects/programs that have meaningful yet sustainable impact on the deserving lives. The Company undertakes need based and impact driven CSR projects/programs in line with its CSR policy and thematic areas.
The CSR Action Plan consisting need based projects are recommended and approved by the CSR Committee and the Board of NSDL. NSDL strives to be one of the most active organizations in terms of social contribution in the depository segment in India hence, the CSR is one of the key avenues to remain connected to the community and be a responsible business by aligning our growth with the development of the society at large. At NSDL, we believe in constant engagement with the communities to understand the need and accordingly designing and delivering the project to address the community needs. We adopt a participatory multi-stakeholder approach that involves extensive engagement with all key stakeholders.
The below mentioned CSR projects are recommended and approved by the Governing Board of NSDL. It is also recommended that in case of any unspent funds out of proposed CSR programs/projects, the CSR Committee shall recommend the alternate programs/projects/activities in pursuance to CSR policy to be undertaken to utilize such unspent funds. The Board may consider and approve such alternative programs/projects/initiatives in a particular FY, if the same are complying with the CSR policy and rules. Further, the Board basis the recommendation of CSR Committee shall also approve the new projects/programs to be undertaken out of any unallocated CSR budget (if any) during a financial year.

Project Details

NSDL has been extensively working for the cause of Thalassemia by providing comprehensive care to patients who belong to marginalized communities. NSDL’s intervention include provision of bed-side Leukocyte Filters and yearly DXA Scan and Cardiac & Liver T2* MRI investigations to underprivileged Thalassemia patients. In order to improve quality of life of Thalassemia major patients and ensure appropriate disease management, there is a dire need of regular interventions such as filters, oral supplements, iron chelation therapy, period investigations, etc. NSDL has been supporting Thalassemia major patients by ensuring that these crucial interventions are timely available for patients. The use of bed-side Leukocyte Filters helps in reducing Febrile Reaction and thereby decreases allergic reactions during blood transfusions. While DXA Scan and Cardiac & Liver T2* MRI tests help to diagnose life threatening risks of iron overload on critical organs which may cause damage to body parts like the heart, liver, pituitary and pancreas during blood transfusions. In current FY, NSDL to benefit around 310+ Thalassemia patients who belong to poor socio-economic background from Mumbai and suburban areas and adjacent districts like Thane, Palghar, Raigad, etc.

Project Objective

To support underprivileged Thalassemia patients through preventive, diagnostic and curative measures by providing the essential medical tools and diagnostic services.

Project Beneficiaries

Underprivileged Thalassemia Patients from MCGM’s LTMGH (Sion Hospital), Mumbai and CTC, PHO & BMT Centre, Borivali, Mumbai.

Project Details

NSDL has been organizing free comprehensive eye care camps for underprivileged people who are engaged in unorganized occupations/sectors including agriculture. In last four years, NSDL has conducted eye care programs for 2600+ beneficiaries who belong to poor socio-economic background and engaged in unorganized sectors/occupations. Post eye screening, the beneficiaries are provided with spectacles and safety spectacles for daily occupational activities based on their need and diagnosis.

In FY 2025-26, NSDL shall execute the comprehensive eye care project for people engaged in unorganized occupations and MSME sector from the identified districts of Tamil Nadu namely, Chennai, Salem, Nagapattinam, Chengalpattu, Karur, Kanchipuram, Dharmapuri, Vilupuram, Krishnagiri, Thoothukudi, Kanyakumari, Viruthunagar, Ramanathapuram, Coimbatore, Tirunelveli, Nilgiris, Ariyalur, Cuddalore, Dindigul, Madurai, Mayiladuthurai, Trichirappalli, Thiruvannamalai, Vellore, Thanjavur, Thiruvallur, etc. The community camps shall be organized in the villages/towns/areas within in and around these locations. The project includes thorough visual task analysis of the beneficiaries followed by comprehensive eye examination and spectacle distribution. NSDL to execute the project in association with Medical Research Foundation (MRF). Further, MRF shall implement the project through its clinical unit named as ‘Sankara Nethralaya’ which is based out of Chennai.

Project Objective

The objective is to conduct comprehensive eye check-up for underprivileged community people especially engaged in unorganized occupations & MSME industry and thereby making quality eye care services accessible and available for all.

Project Beneficiaries

Under this project, NSDL shall serve the marginalized community people engaged in unorganized occupation/sector and MSME sector. Around 1200+ beneficiaries to be impacted in current FY.

Project Details

With a view to enhance school enrolment, retention and improvement in classroom attendance of students as well as improving the nutritional status of the malnourished students, the Government of India launched the National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education (NP-NSPE) popularly known as Mid-Day Meal programme in 1995. The major objective of mid-day meal program is to make nutritious food to students leading to better health status and thereby to enhance the enrolment of students in schools and encouraging them to attend school more regularly and help them concentrate on classroom activities. Since 2021, NSDL in association with Akshaya Patra Foundation has been providing nutritious mid-day-meals to the students in government schools. Mid-day-meals have played a pivotal role in curbing the drop-out ratio and enhancing classroom attendance in the schools as these meals are the only nutritious food that students get in a day.

In current FY, NSDL in association with Akshaya Patra Foundation shall be serving around 3,81,150 mid-day-meals to around 1925 students in identified government schools in Thane, Ahmedabad and Gorakhpur.

With this initiative, we strive to promote education as well as ensure nutrition for the school students.

Project Objective

The major objectives of mid-day meal scheme are to make nutritious food to students leading to better health status.

To develop grasping prowess of students by improving the nutrition level, to enhance the enrolment of students in schools and encouraging needy students, belonging to disadvantaged sections, to attend school more regularly and help them concentrate on classroom activities.

Project Beneficiaries

The school going students from government recognized schools to be covered under this project. The concentration is majorly on the schools attended by students from lower socio-economic background, where mid-day-meal are their only source of meal in a day which supports them with required nutrients for healthy growth. NSDL shall be catering to approx. 31 schools in Thane, Ahmedabad and Gorakhpur covering around 1925 students in academic year 2025-26.

Program Details

NSDL has been conducting various skill development projects to empower youth by providing sector specific skills training followed by livelihood linkages. The youth are enrolled and trained on job roles across various sectors such as BFSI, Construction, Hospitality, Healthcare, IT & FinTech, Retail, etc. Post training, the trained candidates are provided with employment or self-employment opportunities for livelihood generation. The deserving youth are identified and trained on sector specific skills depending upon their need and inclination. The skill development initiatives are carried out under NSDL’s flagship project, ‘Artha SAMARTH’. The sector specific training curriculum designed as per industry demand is being used for imparting training to deserving candidates from poor socio-economic background.

For current FY 2025-26, NSDL in association with Tata Community Initiatives Trust (TCIT) shall train the underserved youth from marginalized communities on job roles for sectors such as Construction, IT, Retail, etc. The candidates shall be trained on livelihood-linked job roles such as Assistant Electrician (Construction Sector), Retail Sales Associate (Retail sector) and Cyber Security and Java Full Stack Developers (IT Sector).

The training program includes a classroom training followed by OJT/internship as per the course demand. Additionally, there is a specialized training on soft skills and digital skills. The program includes various phases such as beneficiaries’ mobilization, counselling, training, assessment, certification, livelihood linkages, etc. Post training, the candidates shall be provided with employment or self-employment opportunities as well as post placement retention support.

Program Objective

To Create highly skilled & professional workforce to serve Industry demands for employment of a thriving industry locally and to transform youth into an employee/ entrepreneur through behavioural change, knowledge acquisition and skill development.

Program Beneficiaries

NSDL shall be serving the candidates between age group of 18 to 35 years with a special focus on underserved youth. Around 145 candidates shall be trained on sector specific job roles.

Program Details

Health care system is one of the basic requirements of every community. Most of the areas in our country, till date, are unreached and underserved due to poor health infrastructure. ‘Health’ is one of the core CSR thematic areas of NSDL wherein we endeavour to implement sustainable as well as impact driven initiatives to address various health issues within vulnerable communities.

In line with the current healthcare initiatives, NSDL has initiated a mobile cancer screening unit for screening of oral, breast and cervical cancer in the deserving communities especially rural & tribal pockets of India. Considering the limited or lack of cancer screening and cancer care facilities as well as high prevalence of oral, breast & cervical cancer in marginalized rural/tribal areas, NSDL deploys a mobile cancer screening unit to ensure timely diagnosis of cancer. NSDL Niramay- Cancer Screening Unit (CSU) with portable diagnostic equipment installed and accompanied with medical team has been initiated to provide doorstep cancer screening, diagnosis and referral services.

To ensure holistic cancer care, the diagnosed patients are referred to appropriate hospitals to undergo curative treatments under Govt. or charitable schemes. Besides cancer screening services, NSDL Niramay envisages the awareness and sensitization about oral, breast & cervical cancer within targeted communities.

Besides screening services, NSDL Niramay unit shall also facilitate awareness and sensitization about oral, breast & cervical cancer within targeted rural/tribal villages including schools. The specialized community health camps shall be organized to cover maximum number of beneficiaries.

Program Objective

The primary objectives of Project NSDL Niramay - Cancer Screening Unit (CSU) are:

• Early detection: Identifying cancers like oral, breast, and cervical at an early stage.
• Increased access to care: Ensuring timely and affordable screening and treatment.
• Community awareness and sensitization: Educating the community people on cancer prevention and early symptoms.
• Referral for diagnosed patients with cervical, oral and breast cancer for further treatment under charitable or Govt. schemes.

The services are provided free of cost to the marginalized community people irrespective of caste, creed, religion, gender, etc.

Program Beneficiaries

The unserved or underserved community people from poor socio-economic background especially, from rural & tribal pockets of India are the targeted beneficiaries for the project. Since the project primarily focuses of early detection and sensitization of community people, NSDL follows a camp based approach to provide services in the identified areas. The targeted communities are selected where the screening and treatment for diseases like cervical, breast, and oral cancer are non-existent, leading to late-stage detection and poorer outcomes and further leading to mortality.

Project Details

Health care system is one of the basic requirements of every community. Most of the communities in our country, till date, are with poor health infrastructure. The Mobile medical unit is gradually proving to be instrumental in addressing the primary healthcare needs of urban slums, rural, tribal and slum areas, particularly for low-income and marginalized populations. MMU has proven to be a successful model for providing primary health care services to the underprivileged communities.

Project NSDL Niramay- Mobile Medical Unit (also known as Clinic on Wheels) has been initiated to provide primary healthcare services including preventive, diagnostic, curative and referral services in the rural, tribal, semi-urban and urban slum areas/communities in India. The Mobile Medical Units are equipped with state-of-the-art diagnostic facilities and accompanied by a team consisting of doctor, pharmacist cum nurse, community mobilizer and driver cum health assistant. Through this project, NSDL provides free of cost primary health care services to the needy people at their doorstep. It is our endeavour to serve the deserving communities/areas in rural, tribal and slums who are deprived of basic healthcare services.

Besides primary healthcare services, NSDL Niramay Unit also encompasses the sensitization and awareness activities on subjects like nutrition, menstrual health, hygiene, sanitation, NCDs, etc. IEC sessions for pregnant mothers, teenage girls, and other vulnerable populations. The project includes advocacy programs with local administrative bodies such as vaccination campaigns and the Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan campaigns. NSDL also conducts specialized community health camps depending upon the need. Further, the Mother and Child Health Care forms an integral part of project wherein low birth weight new-born’s, pregnant or lactating women, and Malnourished children are traced and connected to government health facilities for appropriate care.

In the FY 2025-26, the MMU shall be deployed in Karjat Block of Raigad District in Maharashtra. The services shall be delivered in identified 20 villages of Karjat block covering tribal population.

Project Objective

NSDL SHIKSHA SAHYOG is an educational scholarship project initiated with the aim to support underprivileged bright students who lack adequate financial resources to cope with their academic studies. A lot of capable students often fail to fulfil their dreams for studies due to poor financial conditions. The need for scholarships is compelling and critical for our students more than ever before and hence, NSDL provides need based scholarship support on meritorious basis to the deserving bright students in various scholarship categories.

• To Provide Primary, Preventive, Diagnostic, Curative and Referral Health Services at the doorstep of the people in the un-served/underserved areas of the country.
• To reduce out-of-pocket expenses incurred by marginalized population on primary healthcare services
• To co-ordinate with the District Health Systems to achieve improvements in SDGs like to ensure healthy lives; to reduce inequality; to improve life expectancy, etc.

Project Beneficiaries

NSDL Mobile Medical Unit is expected to serve approx. 8,000 distinct beneficiaries throughout 20 designated villages, including women, particularly teenage girls and expectant and nursing mothers, Children (particularly under-five and malnourished), elderly people, beneficiaries suffering from long-term conditions (such as diabetes, high blood pressure, or anaemia). The targeted population are mostly tribal families, daily wage workers, and those living below the poverty line.

Project Details

This project endeavours to bridge the gap between bright students and the right education by providing financial support in the form of scholarships. Through this project, NSDL intends to provide financial assistance to deserving bright students who lack adequate financial resources to cope with their academic studies. For project execution, NSDL has associated with Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS) and Vidyasaarathi (Protean e-Governance initiative) and Ekam Foundation Mumbai. The meritorious students who fulfil eligibility criteria are awarded with scholarship in various academic categories such as higher secondary, under graduation, post-graduation and engineering courses.

The deserving students are identified and shortlisted as per scholarship categories based on certain eligibility criteria. The scholarship amount is being disbursed for the academic year to help the students to fulfil their educational needs pertaining to the academic year.

In FY 2025-26, NSDL Shiksha Sahyog program has been initiated in 2 categories namely-

Category 1- Students pursuing academic education from 11th STD to Post Graduation in Science, Commerce and Arts. In case of Under Graduation and Post Graduation Courses, only the first year students shall be covered.

Category 2- Students pursuing first year B-Tech/BE courses from government recognized colleges (autonomous/non-autonomous) or government recognized universities (deemed/autonomous).

Project Objective

NSDL SHIKSHA SAHYOG is an educational scholarship project initiated with the aim to support underprivileged bright students who lack adequate financial resources to cope with their academic studies. A lot of capable students often fail to fulfil their dreams for studies due to poor financial conditions. The need for scholarships is compelling and critical for our students more than ever before and hence, NSDL provides need-based scholarship support on meritorious basis to the deserving bright students in various scholarship categories.

Project Beneficiaries

In FY 2025-26, it is expected to serve approx. 200+ meritorious students from poor financial backgrounds. The deserving students shall be identified and shortlisted as per scholarship categories based on eligibility criteria. The needy students who fall under respective academic categories shall be awarded with the scholarship provided they fulfil the eligibility criteria.