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Technologies
for a better world
Annual Corporate Sustainability Report
2015-16
Dear Fellow Stakeholders,
Welcome to our Sixth Sustainability Report for the year
2015-16. This report encapsulates our efforts relating to
sustainability. At KPIT, sustainable development is at the
core of our business decisions and we align our
sustainability strategy with our business goals. This reflects
in our company's mission statement too, which is to create
'Technologies for a better world'. This means concern for
safety, environment and communities percolates in every
sphere of our business.
In this letter, I will take you through how we define KPIT, the
way we run our business, how we enable our customers be
successful and sustainable, how we empower our
employees and help communities around us.
From the Chairman's desk
KPIT - A technology company that caresCare and relationship forms the nucleus of KPIT's overall business strategy. In this regard, we
continue to deepen relationships with our strategic customers, employees, stakeholders and care
for the environment and the world at large. In order to do this efficiently, we use our technology
knowledge as we believe that technology alone has the power to create a more sustainable
future. And thus, KPIT focuses on envisioning and enabling a cleaner, greener, connected,
comfortable and intelligent world, a world that is self-sufficient, sustainable and efficient.
Our R&D (Research and Development) arm – CREST (Center for Research in Engineering Sciences and
Technology) is entrusted with the responsibility of pioneering technologies, products and solutions
that are not only innovative and efficient but also green, safe and sustainable. India's first ARAI
(Automotive Research Association of India) certified On-Bus Intelligent Transport System (ITS)
solution and Revolo- a plug-in, parallel hybrid solution developed by KPIT are a testimony to our
focus on innovating technologies that enable clean mobility.
How we run our business
KPIT's vertical focused approach and expertise in IT and Engineering is creating a better world with
solutions that are sustainable, safe and smart. We focus on industries that build intelligence into the
products they offer.
• Automotive and Transportation
• Consumer and Industrial Manufacturing
• Energy and Resources
• High Tech
• Life Sciences
• Utilities
As a Company, we do not consume non-renewable sources of energy and we ensure all the waste
generated as a result of our business process is treated and recycled for use or is disposed in a
responsible manner. Our upcoming facility in Phase 3 Hinjawadi (Pune) is built on a terrain that
merges into the hills and with minimum excavation to retain the natural topography. Aspects like
innovation, uniqueness, efficiency and purity were given preference while designing the campus.
With initiatives like green architecture, Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI), sewage treatment plant, waste
management system, energy efficient equipment, awareness campaigns and several others, we
continue to be a Company that is extremely conscious about the impact of our processes on the
environment.
How we partner with our customers
We focus on a customer-first approach and understand that business priorities evolve from time to
time and thus, believe in building a long-term partnership and trust with clients. This allows us to
understand their business better and provide innovative & environment friendly solutions that help
meet their dynamic needs, deliver value to the people that matter the most to them. We enable them
in their efforts to be sustainable and efficient by helping them produce products that are of high
quality, less costly, use less energy or fewer materials.
In order to stay relevant to our focus industries, we continue to invest in upgrading to latest
technologies. During the course of the year we will continue to invest in technologies (like Products &
Platforms and will focus on the development of AMS and next generation digital, IoT, Cloud &
analytics platforms) that will enable our customers to attain their business goals.
How we enable our Employees
Our employees are our torchbearers and hence their growth is one of our fore focus. Over the course
of FY16, we have been able to improve on our people productivity. We introduced a new performance
management system (KPMS) that entails a complete 'Role' based approach. A key essential of the
framework is to provide clearer career growth paths with the respective roles and provide clarity on
what a particular role entails in terms of expectations. This will enable our focus on developing and
growing people internally. We also have a renewed thrust on internal promotions on defined
guidelines and have made substantial investments in training and development.
How we enable our communities
We are also equally committed to helping our communities through numerous CSR activities, such as
Chhotte Scientists Program-an initiative to teach Science fundamentals to school children, Solid
Waste Management, Zero Garbage Drive-an initiative aimed towards promoting segregation of
organic and inorganic waste at source and several others.
We strongly believe that the future generation is governed by the way we grow today. We always aim
to align our growth path to make tomorrow cleaner, greener and more sustainable.
This report details our efforts and initiatives in that direction.
Happy Reading.
Introduction
We are glad to present you our Sixth Sustainability Report for the year 2015- 2016.
Sustainability is the epicenter of all our business processes. It is very dear to our heart and goes
beyond financial or operation sustainability. For us, it extends to include environmental and social
sustainability as well-while taking all our stakeholders along as we pursue our mission and goals. We
are passionate and committed to Sustainability, not just in the manner in which we own our business
but also in how we enable our customers to do it. The report encapsulates some of the sustainability
initiatives undertaken by us as well as the results achieved over the last year. It also covers the
economic, environmental and social dimensions of our sustainability strategy. This report presents
our vision of building a global technology company while staying committed to sustainability.
01About the Company1.1 The Goal
1.2 About the Company
1.3 Geographic Performance
1.4 Financial Performance
1.5 Information about the Subsidiaries
1.6 Enterprises Risk Management (ERM) Framework
1.7 Industry Recognition, Awards & Leadership
03Innovation at KPIT 3.1 Domain wise breakup of all patents filed
3.2 Sparke 2016
3.3 EV Bus Project
3.4 Award List
05Environment Initiatives at KPIT5.1 KPIT Green Campus
5.2 Power
5.3 Project undertaken at KPIT for reduction in
power consumption for desktops
5.4 Air Conditioning
5.5 Lighting
5.6 Water
5.7 Waste Management at KPIT Campus
5.8 Environment Awareness Campaigns
5.9 Occupational Health & Safety
5.10 New Campus coming up in Phase III
07Future Ahead
02Corporate Governance and Management practices2.1 Board Composition
2.2 Board Committees
2.3 Board and Senior Management Compensation
2.4 Whistle Blower Policy
04KPIT's way of giving back to the society4.1 Scope of our CSR initiatives
4.2 Environment
4.3 Education
4.4 Energy
4.5 Employee Engagement
4.6 Innovating, Inspiring, Appreciating
4.7 CSR initiatives in North America
4.8 Awards & Accolades
4.9 Graphical representation – Employee involvement
Vs No. of beneficiaries for CSR initiatives
06Employee Engagement at KPIT6.1 Employee Engagement
6.2 Employee Recreation
6.3 Other initiatives
6.4 Performance Appraisal
6.5 Rewards and Recognition
6.6 Employee Competency Development
6.7 Labour Practices Strategy and
Management Approach
6.8 Employment and compensation
6.9 Talent Acquisition
Index
01 ABOUT THE COMPANY
1.1 The Goal
1.2 About the Company
1.3 Geographic Performance
1.4 Financial Performance
1.5 Information about the Subsidiaries
1.6 Enterprises Risk Management (ERM) Framework
1.7 Industry Recognition, Awards & Leadership
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About The Company
1.1 The Goal:
As an organization our goal is to build a Vertically Focused Technology Company that cares…
Vertically Focused
We will continue to focus on the below mentioned industries:
1) Automotive & Transportation
2) Manufacturing:
• Industrial & Consumer products
• Hi Tech
• Life Sciences
3) Energy & Resources
4) Utilities
These industries create products or service customers through products which require intelligence
and we believe that we can work with our customers to create such products by leveraging our
electronics and engineering domain expertise.
Technology Company
We work towards developing technology that is cutting edge, pro-active, innovative and integrates
the capabilities of both IT and engineering to deliver smart solutions and products.
Care
Care and relationship forms the nucleus of our overall business strategy. We would like to work with a
few strategic customers for whom we could render services and solutions in our focused areas. We
care for our employees and we are making necessary investments for the overall development of our
people in alignment with their career path and organizational values. We care for all stakeholders and
society at large and we would continue to contribute to the environment by creating products and
solutions which are greener, safer and well connected.
1.2 About the Company:
We are a global technology company specializing in providing IT consulting and product engineering
solutions and services to Automotive, Manufacturing, Energy & Utilities and Life Sciences companies.
We currently partner with 200+ global organizations who are benefitting from our services and
technology. We have a strong client base of around 75 Automotive OEMs and Tier Is and 50+
manufacturing companies. We have a wide geographic presence with 10 development centers and
34 offices in 16 countries. Our domain expertise and capabilities in the areas of electronics and
engineering has helped us in winning around 9 Innovation awards in the last 4 years. We have a
strong team of 10,900+ people representing over 25 different nations who works at the forefront of
technologies and processes to help our customers become smarter, integrated and innovative
enterprises.
1.3 Geographic Performance:
During the year 2015-16, Europe geography was leading the growth path followed by US. The revenue share
for Europe increased from 15.35% in last year to 18.01% during this year and it grew by 26.53%. The revenue
share of US geography increased from 66.94% in last year to 68.38% during this year and it grew by 10.16%. In
APAC revenues for the year declined due to reduction in our products business mainly for Intelligent
Transportation Solutions (ITS) product. The revenue share for APAC, geography stood at 13.61% during this
year as against 17.71% in last year while revenue declined by 17.12%.
1.4 Financial Performance:
As we had stated, during the beginning of the year that growth was not the prime focus area for the Company
during the year. We were focusing on improving our profitability, business predictability and people
development in the same priority order and we have been successful in delivering well on these three areas
and we have also progressed well on the growth path.
Our Dollar revenues have been flattish during the year as they stood at $ 490.31 Million against $ 489 Million
in FY15. The services business grew by 4.52% on a Y-o-Y basis (7.5% in constant currency terms) while the
products business declined. In Rupee terms Company revenue grew by 7.8% Y-o-Y from ₹ 29,899.17 Million
in FY15 to ₹ 32,242.91 Million.
Sydney
SingaporeHyderabad
BangaloreChennai
Pune
Delhi
Johannesburg
Sao Paulo
Shanghai
Tokyo
Amsterdam
BerlinMunich
Stockholm
ParisLondon
Edison, NJ
Houston, Tx
Austin, TxNewport
Beach, CA
Folsom, CA
Portland, OR
Releigh, NC
Columbus, IN
Novi, MI
Milan
Seaoul
Dubai
Mumbai
Development center in US, Germany, India & Brazil
Global Offices
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Amongst the SBUs, Product Engineering Services (PES) SBU was the highest growing SBU with revenue share
at 27% and Y-o-Y growth of 33.46%. SAP SBU also recovered well from the issues faced during last year and
registered good growth during the year. SAP SBU grew by 14.82% on a Y-o-Y basis while its revenue share
stood at 22.9%. Integrated Enterprise Solutions (IES) SBU grew by 6.04% Y-o-Y with revenue share at 35.91%.
There was a decline of 11.23% in Digital Transformation SBU (DT erstwhile ES SBU) and its revenue share for
the year was 9.70%. We had a major decline in Products & Platform SBU (P&P) primarily due to the cyclical
business nature for Intelligent Transport Solutions (ITS) product however we achieved success and
recognition for some of our other products. The revenue share for this SBU came down to 4.51% with Y-o-Y
decline of 42.03%.
During the year, there was good growth across our verticals. Manufacturing vertical grew by 10.98%
contributing 35.91% to the revenues while Automotive & Transportation grew by 9.65% with revenue share
at 37.58%. Energy & Utilities vertical grew by 4.82% and it contributed 19.55% to the revenues. Amongst our
customers the Top 10 customers grew by 5.29% on a Y-o-Y basis while the Top 5 customers declined by
0.62%.
Our EBITDA Margins for the year increased to 13.15% against 10.85% in FY15. Profitability improvement was
the top priority area for us during the year and we have been able to improve it by taking certain steps and
actions related to operational efficiency, people productivity and delivery excellence. Net profit for the year
increased by 18.78% Y-o-Y to ₹ 2,815 Million from ₹ 2,369.87 Million in FY15. Our cash flow has also been
positive throughout the year.
1.5 Information about the Subsidiaries:
KPIT has set up wholly owned subsidiaries in Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Netherlands, UAE,
United Kingdom and United States of America and branches in Singapore, Japan, South Africa, Australia,
South Korea ,Sweden and Italy in order to give its local presence in the countries where its customers operate
and also to service its customers more efficiently. Local presence has also helped KPIT in building a diverse
workforce.
1.6 Enterprises Risk Management (ERM) Framework:
The Company has Enterprise wise Risk Management (ERM) framework, which is iterative process of
continually identifying the risks that are threatening to Company's sustainability. There exists well defined
objective and quantitative framework for measuring risks and managing them. The Company maintains a
Risk Register and implements suitable risk mitigating plans for each risks identified therein. Top ten risks are
reviewed by the Risk Management Committee periodically.
ERM at Company involves risk identification, assessment, mitigation planning for strategic, operational,
finance and compliance related risks across all business units, functions and geographies.
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Risks monitored by ERM Framework are –
• Growth in defined target accounts
• Ability to maintain gross margins
• Talent Management
• Currency Appreciation
• Business Concentration
• Growth in emerging line of business
• Operational liability risk
• Management of large deal delivery
• Lack of traction in new offerings
• IT Infrastructure Risk Assessment
Please refer to separate section on Enterprise Risk Management in the annual report 2015-16 which
is available on www.kpit.com.
1.7 Industry Recognition, Awards & Leadership:
• Ms. Vaishali Vaid, VP & Head, Global HR, KPIT honored with the '100 Most Talented Global HR
Leaders Award' by CHRO Asia for the second time in a row.
• KPIT's Smart Electric Bus technology wins the 'One Globe Award for Excellence in Research &
Development'
• KPIT Won "Newcomer of the Year" Award at Annual SAP Hybris Summit
• KPIT Honored for Successful Digital Transformation with 'Jewels of Digital Maestro Award'
• KPIT's solution for Consul Neowatt Power Solutions wins SAP ACE Award for Customer Excellence in
Service
• KPIT Conferred with the Most Influential Marketing Leaders Awards
• KPIT Honored with the 'Best CSR Practice Award' by the World CSR Congress
• KPIT Featured as a "Niche Player" in Gartner's 2015 "Magic Quadrant for Oracle Application
Management Services, Worldwide"
02 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
AND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
2.1 Board Composition
2.2 Board Committees
2.3 Board and Senior Management Compensation
2.4 Whistle Blower Policy
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Corporate Governance and Management Practices
For KPIT, Corporate Governance stands as an approach of managing our operations efficiently and
prudently in order to make the business stable and secure, growth-oriented, maximally profitable to
our shareholders and be highly reputed and reliable among all customers & clients concerned. The
board structure and the top management are directly responsible for such governance and hence it is
utmost important that the top management has flawless and effective control over all affairs of the
organization, is regularly monitoring all business activities and transactions, interest and benefits of
the shareholders are considered and that there is strict compliance to regulatory and governmental
bodies . Thus, corporate governance is strict and efficient when application of all best management
practices is blended with corporate & legal compliances, amid the contemporary and continually
changing business scenarios.
KPIT has been practicing corporate governance to ensure transparency in its corporate affairs. The
Company is committed to continuously scaling up its corporate governance standards.
KPIT's corporate governance framework has been built on the value system evolved by the Company
over a period of time. This value system has been abbreviated as CRICKET, that illustrates the
Company's attributes as follows:
2.1 Board composition:
The composition of the Board is decided considering the following criteria:
1) Compliance with statutory and regulatory norms
2) Appropriate mix of Independent and Non-Independent Directors
3) Entrepreneurship
4) Diversity
5) Experience of working in a rapidly growing company.
6) Specialized knowledge in
The Company has a judicious mix of Executive, Non-Executive and Independent Directors. The Board
consists of 5 Independent Directors, 2 Non-Executive Directors and 3 Executive Directors.
• Customer Focus
• Respect for Individual
• Integrity
• Community Initiative
• Knowledge Worship
• Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Teamwork and boundarylessness
a) Business strategy
b) Global markets
c) Technology and innovation
d) Financial Management
e) Accounting
f) Customer Relationship Management
g) Investment Banking
h) Human Resource Management
i) Operational excellence
j) Industries which are the focus areas for the Company.
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The Company has also laid down certain benchmarks for the qualification of the Board members.
There is a constant endeavor to align the qualifications of the Directors with the ongoing trends in
this arena. Before inducting any new member, the Board ensures that the new member conforms to
the qualification criteria laid down by the Company. The qualifications prescribed by the Company
are as follows:
• Thought leadership
• Specialized skills
• Knowledge of the business
• Knowledge of the industry in which the Company operates or in which the Company has significant
interests
• Independence attributes for Independent Directors
• Ability to devote necessary time
• Not holding membership in the board of our competitors.
The Independent Directors of the Company are chosen keeping in mind the definition of
'Independent Director' as defined in the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations
and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 and the Companies Act, 2013. Apart from this, the
Company has well defined touchstones for selecting the Independent Directors. The Independent
Directors are prominent and distinguished figures from the Industry and have an astute knowledge
of the industry and business.
At KPIT, we have renowned personalities as Directors, who are doyens of their field and are truly
independent. They include:
Ms. Lila Poonawalla was awarded the Padmashree in 1989 for her exemplary contribution to the
world of Engineering and Industry. She was the Chairperson and Managing Director of Alfa Laval-
Tetra Pak India and was the first woman to reach the post of Managing Director in the Alfa Laval
group. She is currently a Director on the Board of Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company Limited,
Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company Limited, VE Commercial Vehicles Limited, Blossom Industries
Limited, Pragati Leadership Institute Private Limited, Noble Tek PLM Solutions Private Limited, Impact
Automotive Solutions Limited and Nihilent Technologies Limited.
She has been on the governing body of organizations like the CII (Confederation of Indian Industries)
and TIFAC (Technology Information Forecasting and Assessment Council formed by the Government
of India). She was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Central Cabinet (SAC-C) and
Chairperson of the Herbal and Floriculture Taskforce of SAC-C. Actively involved in social initiatives,
she is on the Board of trustees of two Pune-based NGOs. In 1994, she started the "Lila Poonawalla
Foundation" to promote education among women. She is presently a member of Executive Council of
Maratha Chamber of Commerce Industries (MCCI), National Institute of Agricultural Extension
Management and Top Management Consortium. She is also the Vice Chairperson of the Poona Blind
Men's Association.
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Dr. R. A. Mashelkar is deeply committed to the world of Science and Engineering, Dr. Mashelkar has
been hugely instrumental in propagating a culture of innovation and balanced intellectual property
rights regime for over a decade. He is a Chancellor in Academy of Scientific & Innovative research. He
was the third Indian engineer to have been elected as a Fellow of Royal Society (FRS), London and he
was the first Indian President of the Institute of Chemical Engineers, UK and the first Indian Foreign
Fellow of Australian Technological Science and Engineering Academy (2008). Twenty-eight
universities have honoured him with honorary doctorates, which include Universities of London,
Salford, Pretoria, Wisconsin and Delhi. Dr. Mashelkar served as the Director General of Council of
Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). He was also the President of Indian National Science
Academy (2005-2007). He is currently a Director on the Board of Reliance Industries Limited, Thermax
India Limited, Tata Motor Limited, Piramal Enterprises Limited, Tal Manufacturing Solutions Limited,
Vyome Biosciences Limited, Invictus Oncology Private Limited, Sakal Paper Private Limited,
International Longevity Centre–India, Gharda Scientific Research Foundation, Gharda Medical &
Advanced Technical Foundation. Dr. Mashelkar has won over 50 awards and medals at national and
international levels and was honoured by the President of India with Padma Vibushan award in the
year 2014. Earlier, he was conferred Padma Shri award (1991) and Padma Bhushan award (2000), in
recognition of his contribution to nation building.
Mr. Adi Engineer is a Chartered Engineer by profession with a Degree in Civil Engineering from the
Pune University. He was associated with Tata group of companies for nearly three decades prior to
joining KPIT Board, which includes a stint as the Managing Director of Tata Power Limited. In that
role, he transformed the company by successfully launching various new initiatives that substantially
led to improved profitability. His company also secured the "Good Corporate Citizen" award during
his charge. Prior to joining the Tata Group, Mr. Engineer had a successful 20 years stint with the ICI
group where he held senior positions in the management team including setting up large Chemical
plant projects and later into operations and general management. Mr. Engineer has served as the
Director on the Board of several companies in the field of energy infrastructure and engineering.
Reckoned for his varied and differentiating experience, Mr. Engineer is a Director in Finolex Cables
Limited and Impact Automotive Solutions Limited. The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) had
also appointed him as the Chairman of the Committee on Power for the year 2006. He has been a
preferred and insightful spokesperson for the Power sector for many media interactions. Having
served the industry on numerous fronts, Mr. Engineer brings with him wide experience from more
than a dozen boards of major companies.
Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli, was a co-founder of Cadence and Synopsys, two leading
companies in the area of Electronic Design Automation. He is the Chief Technology Adviser of
Cadence and also a member of its Board of Directors. He was a member of the HP Strategic
Technology Advisory Board. He is currently a member of the Science and Technology Advisory Board
of General Motors, as well as a member of the Technology Advisory Council of United Technologies
Corporation. He is also a Professor with University of California, Berkeley and Department of
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences.
Mr. Anant Talaulicar holds B.E. (Mechanical) degree from Mysore University, M.S. degree from the
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a MBA from Tulane University, USA. He has been serving
Cummins for the past 19 years in varied fields like Finance, Manufacturing, Product Management,
Strategy, Marketing and General Management. He has led the North & South American Commercial
Power Generation business for Cummins with revenues of $ 300 million. Currently, he is Chairman and
Managing Director of Cummins India Limited.
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Mr. B V R Subbu is an automotive industry expert and a thought leader. Mr. B V R Subbu holds a post
graduate degree in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University and a post graduate diploma from
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. He was president of Hyundai India earlier. He was also extensively
involved with Tata Group holding various responsibilities, among others in Tata Motors' Light
Commercial Vehicles and Multi Utility Vehicles business.
Mr. Sanjay Kukreja is a fund manager by profession. He joined ChrysCapital, a fund management
firm, in April 2000. He manages the investments of ChrysCapital in business services sector. Mr.
Sanjay Kukreja received his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and graduated
with a BA in economics from Delhi University.
We also have following Executive Directors.
Chairman & Group CEO
Mr. S. B. (Ravi) Pandit is a founder of the Company and has been a Director on the Board of the
Company since its incorporation. He holds a MS (Management) degree from Sloan School of
Management, MIT, Cambridge, USA. He possesses extensive experience of over four decades in the
fields of IT, Corporate Strategy Formulation and Management Consulting. Mr. S. B. (Ravi) Pandit was
an Audit Professional at Alexander Grant & Co., USA, following which he became a partner at Kirtane
& Pandit LLP, Chartered Accountants, from 1975-1990. He is a Fellow member of the Institute of
Chartered Accountants of India and an Associate member of the Institute of Cost Accountants of
India. He was President of Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture during 2004-
2006. Mr. S. B. (Ravi) Pandit is also a frequent speaker at various national and international seminars.
At KPIT, he leads the team in overseeing Solutions & Services business, assessment of new
technologies, management of key external relationships and managing Board matters. He is a
promoter of the Company and also plays a strategic role in Community Initiatives and Corporate
Governance.
CEO & Managing Director
Mr. Kishor Patil is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and an
Associate member of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India. He has more than 31 years of
experience in various areas like Information Systems and Design, Marketing, Organization Methods
and Systems etc. He is in-charge of the overall management of the Company. He is specifically
responsible for all day-to-day operational issues like planning and executing business, reviewing and
guiding the country offices, customer delivery units and support functions and ensuring efficient and
effective functioning of the organization as a whole. As a promoter of the Company, Mr. Kishor Patil
has provided strategic direction and spearheaded KPIT's foray into international markets. He has
been instrumental in building strategic partnerships and a strong and prestigious customer base for
the Company in a short span of time. Currently, he is focusing on creation and management of new
Product Business Units, executive sponsorship of critical GAMs, management of key external
relationships in India & strategic infrastructure projects.
Whole-time Director & President
Mr. Sachin Tikekar holds a Masters' degree in Strategic Management and International Finance
from Temple University's Fox School of Business and Management, Pennsylvania. He is a co-founder
of KPIT and has played various leadership roles over the years. Currently, he is working on the overall
strategy, operating systems, creation of some new solutions, executive sponsorship of the key Global
Accounts and Partnerships along with Succession Planning and Development of senior people in the
organization.
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2.2 Board Committees
The Company takes various initiatives to ensure the active participation of the Directors, particularly,
the Non-Executive Directors, in the decision-making and review process some of which are given
below:
A) Majority of the committees of the Board are chaired by Non-Executive / Independent
Directors. The Company has the following Committees: -
1) Audit Committee
2) Quality Council
3) Innovation Council
4) Nomination and Remuneration (HR) Committee
5) Share Transfer Committee
6) Stakeholders Relationship Committee
7) Risk Management Committee
8) Corporate Social Responsibility Committee
B) The Board of Directors normally have an Annual Strategy Meet and the mid-year strategy
meet to deliberate on the annual operating plans, review the status of the plan and set the
direction for long range plans.
1) The Company has set-up an Audit Committee consisting of 3 Directors out of which 2 are
Independent and form the majority. The Committee consists of Ms. Lila Poonawalla, who is the
Chairperson of this Committee, Mr. Adi Engineer & Mr. S. B. (Ravi) Pandit. The committees play a
major role in reviewing and improving internal controls, internal audit function, financial
reporting, reviewing the performance of statutory and internal auditors and code of conduct. The
role and objectives of the Committee include:
i. Oversight of the financial reporting process and the disclosure of its financial information
to ensure that the financial statement is correct, sufficient and credible;
ii. Recommendation for appointment, remuneration and terms of appointment of auditors of
the Company;
iii. Approval of payment to statutory auditors for any other services rendered by the statutory
auditors;
iv. Reviewing, with the management, the annual financial statements and auditor's report
thereon before submission to the Board for approval, with particular reference to:
a. Matters required to be included in the director's responsibility statement to be included
in the Board's report in terms of clause (c) of sub-section (3) of Section 134 of the
Companies Act, 2013;
b. Changes, if any, in accounting policies and practices and reasons for the same;
c. Major accounting entries involving estimates based on the exercise of judgment by
management;
d. Significant adjustments made in the financial statements arising out of audit findings;
e. Compliance with listing and other legal requirements relating to financial statements;
f. Disclosure of any related party transactions;
g. Modified opinion(s) in the draft audit report;
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v. Reviewing, with the management, the quarterly financial statements before submission to the
Board for approval;
vi. Reviewing, with the management, the statement of uses / application of funds raised through an
issue (public issue, rights issue, preferential issue, etc.), the statement of funds utilized for
purposes other than those stated in the offer document / prospectus / notice and the report
submitted by the monitoring agency monitoring the utilisation of proceeds of a public or rights
issue, and making appropriate recommendations to the Board to take up steps in this matter;
vii. Reviewing and monitoring the auditor's independence and performance, and effectiveness of audit
process;
viii. Approval or any subsequent modification of transactions of the Company with related parties;
ix. Scrutiny of inter-corporate loans and investments;
x. Valuation of undertakings or assets of the Company, wherever it is necessary;
xi. Evaluation of internal financial controls and risk management systems;
xii. Reviewing, with the management, performance of statutory and internal auditors, adequacy of the
internal control systems;
xiii. Reviewing the adequacy of internal audit function, if any, including the structure of the internal
audit department, staffing and seniority of the official heading the department, reporting structure
coverage and frequency of internal audit;
xiv. Discussion with internal auditors of any significant findings and follow up there on;
xv. Reviewing the findings of any internal investigations by the internal auditors into matters where
there is suspected fraud or irregularity or a failure of internal control systems of a material nature
and reporting the matter to the Board;
xvi. Discussion with statutory auditors before the audit commences, about the nature and scope of
audit as well as post-audit discussion to ascertain any area of concern;
xvii. To look into the reasons for substantial defaults in the payment to the depositors, debenture
holders, shareholders (in case of non-payment of declared dividends) and creditors;
xviii. To review the functioning of the whistle blower mechanism;
xix. Approval of appointment of chief financial officer after assessing the qualifications, experience and
background, etc. of the candidate;
xx. Carrying out any other function as is mentioned in the role and objectives of the audit committee.
xxi. Management discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations;
xxii. Statement of significant related party transactions (as defined by the audit committee), submitted
by management;
xxiii. Management letters / letters of internal control weaknesses issued by the statutory auditors;
xxiv. Internal audit reports relating to internal control weaknesses;
xxv. The appointment, removal and terms of remuneration of the chief internal auditor shall be subject
to review by the audit committee;
xxvi. Statement of deviations:
a. Quarterly statement of deviation(s) including report of monitoring agency, if applicable,
submitted to stock exchange(s) in terms of Regulation 32(1);
b. Annual statement of funds utilized for purposes other than those stated in the offer
document/prospectus/notice in terms of Regulation 32(7).
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2) The Quality Council enables the Board to focus on service quality-related aspects and resolve
customer issues proactively. Its role and objectives are to suggest measures to enhance quality
and productivity and the means to optimize the use of the resources. The Committee is chaired by
Mr. BVR Subbu, a renowned automotive industry expert with vast experience in launch of new
vehicles in the market. Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli, Ms. Lila Poonawalla and Mr. Kishor
Patil are the other members. It reviews the quality aspects of the Company’s operations,
productivity improvement measures and the customer satisfaction scores regularly and advises
the management.
3) Innovation Council lays down the innovation road-map for the Company considering the
constantly evolving technology and other trends and also guides the Company in monetizing the
results of the innovation. The Committee is chaired by Dr. R A Mashelkar, a renowned scientist and
innovation champion. Mr. S.B. (Ravi) Pandit, Mr. Kishor Patil, Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli,
Mr. BVR Subbu and Ms. Lila Poonawalla are the other members. The Innovation Council also
reviews the status of innovation projects and evaluates the innovation ideas originated by the
employees. The council actively promotes innovation culture in the organization.
4) The Company has set-up a Nomination and Remuneration (HR) Committee. The Committee is
chaired by an Independent Director, Mr. Adi Engineer, an industry veteran with over five decades
of experience. Its role and objectives include:
All people-related matters including:
i. Formulation of the criteria for determining qualifications, positive attributes and
independence of a director and recommend to the Board of Directors a policy relating to,
the remuneration of the directors, key managerial personnel and other employees;
ii. Formulation of criteria for evaluation of performance of independent directors and the
board of directors;
iii. Devising a policy on diversity of Board of Directors;
iv. Identifying persons who are qualified to become Directors and who may be appointed in
senior management in accordance with the criteria laid down, and recommend to the
Board of directors their appointment and removal;
v. Decide whether to extend or continue the term of appointment of the independent
director, on the basis of the report of performance evaluation of independent directors.
5) The Company has a Share Transfer Committee. The role and objectives of the Committee, as
defined by the Board is to approve matters relating to share transfers. During the year, the
Committee was dissolved for operational convenience as the Company already has in place a
Stakeholders Relationship Committee which is a mandatory committee. The powers of Share
Transfer Committee are delegated by the Board to the Stakeholders Relationship Committee.
6) The Company has formed a Stakeholders Relationship Committee. The role and objectives of the
Committee is to consider and resolve the grievances of the security holders of the Company
including complaints related to transfer of shares, non-receipt of annual report and non-receipt of
declared dividends..
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7) The Company has formed a Risk Management Committee. The purpose of the committee is to
monitor and review the risk management plan of the Company.
8) The Company has set-up a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Committee to oversee the
discharge of Corporate Social Responsibility obligations, as required under Section 135 of the
Companies Act, 2013. The Committee consists of Mr. S.B. (Ravi) Pandit who is the Chairman, Mr.
Adi Engineer and Mr. Sachin Tikekar. The role and objectives of the Committee are:
i. Formulation and recommendation to the Board, of CSR policy;
ii. Identification of activities to be undertaken by the Company;
iii. Recommendation of amount of expenditure on CSR activities;
iv. Monitor the CSR policy from time to time.
2.3 Board and Senior Management Compensation:
The compensation of the Board is determined in accordance with the following parameters:
• Legal considerations:
This takes into account the maximum limit set out by the Companies Act, 2013 and the rules made
thereunder for remunerating Executive and Non-Executive Directors and is primarily based on the
profits of the Company for the financial year.
• Best Practices:
Remuneration to Executive Directors consists of a fixed component and a performance based
incentive. These are based on the individual performance of the Director and the overall
performance of the Company. Remuneration to Non-Executive Directors is based on the director’s
chairmanship / membership of the Board Committees, contribution of the Director to the
Company’s business outside the Board Meeting and the duration of directorship during the year.
Similarly, compensation of the Senior Management consists of a fixed salary component and
variable pay. The variable pay is dependent on the performance of the individual and that of the
Company. In addition to the performance of the individual, one of the additional factors
determining the pay to the Senior Management is the Key Behavioural Attributes (KBA). The KBAs is
a set of attributes, which an employee demonstrates while in performance of his duties. Each KBA
represents a particular value of the Company and this system of performance measurement
provides perfect alignment of the behaviour of the individual with the Company’s value system.
Compensation of Independent Directors is decided based on the following factors:
• Attendance at Board meetings,
• Attendance at Board committee meetings,
• Chairmanship of the Board,
• Chairmanship of the Board Committees,
• Contribution at the Board and Committee
meetings,
• Guidance and support provided to senior
management of the Company outside
the Board meetings,
• Industry practices,
• Performance evaluation and
• Performance of the Company
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2.4 Whistle Blower PolicyIn an effort to demonstrate the highest standards of transparency, the Company has adopted the
‘Whistle Blower Policy’, which has established a mechanism for employees to express and report their
concerns to the management in a fearless manner about unethical behavior, fraud, violation of the
code of conduct or ethics. This mechanism also provides for adequate safeguards against
victimization of employees who avail this mechanism and also provide direct access to the Chairman
and members of the Audit Committee in exceptional cases. This policy has been uploaded on the
website of the Company for effective circulation and implementation. The purpose of this policy is to
establish procedures for the:
1) Receipt, retention and treatment of complaints received by the Company regarding improper
activities, financial or otherwise, in the Company ; and
2) Submission by Whistle Blower on a confidential and/or anonymous basis, of concerns regarding
improper activities.
The purpose of this policy is also to state clearly and unequivocally that the Company prohibits
discrimination, harassment and/or retaliation against any Whistle Blower who:-
1) Raises concerns against improper activities; or
2) Provides information or otherwise assists in an investigation or proceeding regarding improper
activities.
The Policy also aims to protect any Whistle Blower who legitimately and in good faith raises concerns
or provides information against improper activities.
Everyone in the Company is responsible for ensuring that the workplace is free from all forms of
discrimination, harassment and retaliation prohibited by this policy. No employee or Director of the
Company has the authority to engage in any conduct prohibited by this Policy.
033.1 Domain wise breakup of all patents filed
3.2 Sparke 2016
3.3 EV Bus Project
3.4 Award List
INNOVATION AT KPIT
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⦁ Hybrid
⦁ ADAS
⦁ High Performance Computing
⦁ BMS
⦁ Others (Signal processing, automotive, Embedded, VLSI, etc.)
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Total patents filed in FY 15-16: 6 patents
• Complete Specification: 1
• Provisional applications: 5
Patent Title: GUIDANCE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE
Application: Complete Specification
Brief Description: The present invention describes a guidance control system for an
autonomous vehicle, where the vehicle performs an autonomous navigation and
operation while a position of the vehicle is measured using a satellite navigation system.
The guidance control system has an antenna position compensation module, a vehicle
navigation module, a lateral control module, a heading control module and a yaw rate
control module. The antenna position compensation module provides guidance control
signal to the autonomous vehicle during selection of virtual antenna position.
Patent Title: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A SEAT LIFT
Application: Provisional
Brief Description: The present invention discloses the system and method for adjusting
height of vehicle seat and seat belt according to the user comfort and for reducing
vertebra and pelvis fatigue. In a semi-automatic mode, the vehicle seat is equipped with
seat lowering mechanism and the vertical portion of the seat, is fixed to the ground and
is adapted to detach from horizontal seat portion. Additionally, a pair of shoulder or
chest straps connected to a rear portion of seat backrest, is provided to comfortably pin
the passenger to the seat. In a fully-automatic mode, the system comprises of an electric
motor and a controller. The electric motor may be installed behind the seat or any other
convenient location. The motor is driven by the controller.
Patent Title: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALIBRATION EXPERIMENTATION
OPTIMIZATION OF ENGINE
Application: Provisional
Brief Description: The present invention describes system architecture and method for
an automated way of measuring and ensuring the completeness of system requirements
for any automobile sub-system. The present invention includes repository of actors and
their use cases. Also, the relationship of various actors and their use cases is maintained.
The provision to add, modify or delete actors and use cases is provided to continuously
enrich the database and thereby, improving the completeness analysis for system
requirements.
3.1 Domain wise breakup of all patents filed
Innovation at KPIT
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Patent Title: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAFFIC OPTIMIZATION
Application: Provisional
Brief Description: The present invention discloses a method and system for
optimizing traffic using a game theory based approach. The game theory based
approach identifies the optimum Nash equilibrium and chaos theory to
formulate strategy for reaching such identified equilibrium. The
players/vehicles do not have any encouragement to move to other strategies
because the payoff function for any other strategy would be lesser than the
current one. It is possible that many of the equilibriums are suboptimal such as
the case when the two vehicles come head to head and stop. At this stage, if any
among the two players goes back, its payoff function decreases and if it goes
forward, there would be a collision. This could also be called as attractors if the
problem is formulated using chaos theory. The basic idea is to avoid attractors
which are suboptimal or find attractors which are the best.
Patent Title: SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED USE
CASE TO REQUIREMENTS COVERAGE TOOL
Application: Provisional
Brief Description: The present invention describes system architecture and
method for an automated way of measuring and ensuring the completeness of
system requirements for any sub-system of automobiles. The present invention
includes repository of actors and their use cases. Also, the relationship of
various actors and their use cases is maintained. The provision to add, modify or
delete actors and use cases is provided to continuously enrich the database and
thereby, improving the completeness analysis for system requirements.
Patent Title: MODULAR MICRO-CONCENTRATOR ARRAY BASED MULTI-
DIRECTIONAL SUN TRACKING SYSTEM FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC AND THERMAL
ENERGY HARVESTING
Application: Provisional
Brief Description: This invention provides an efficient architectural concept for
single or multi-axis solar tracking, for multidirectional solar energy harvesting,
which is low cost, modular and is capable of adaptability to small as well as large
scale implementation. In another aspect, the solar system architecture
according to the invention may be employed as a stand-alone solar
photovoltaic system, solar thermal system, solar thermal plus thermoelectric
system or an integrated solar photovoltaic-cum-solar thermal system.
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This was the second year for KPIT Sparkle, a pan
India innovation-led design contest for Science
& Engineering Students. KPIT Sparkle 2016, in
association with the College of Engineering,
Pune (COEP) aims at fostering a culture of
innovation and critical thinking among
Engineering and Science students across
colleges in India. The theme for this year was
' Smar t So lut ions for Energy and
Transportation'. This year we received 1,700
innovative ideas from over 10,000 students
across 460 colleges in India. 54 best teams
made it to the grand finale of KPIT Sparkle 2016
and top shortlisted presented innovative and
sustainable solutions through scale models and
working prototypes.
Some of the projects featured ideas on Green
Energy, Alternate Fuels & Materials,
Autonomous Vehicles and Intelligent Traffic
Management.
The finalists were evaluated for novelty of their
ideas, completeness of prototype, fulfillment of
society's expectations/problem statement and
technical knowledge at a grand exhibition held
at COEP College ground, Pune.
Team Assist from The Indian Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur won the Gold award of
₹ 5 Lakhs for their 'i-Bike' project. The bicycle
model can drive itself autonomously and also
be driven manually, as and when required, in an
urban bicycle-sharing system to achieve in last-
mile transportation.
3.2 Sparkle 2016
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Sparkle Winners
Gold award winner
Project name 'i-Bike' project
College name Team Assist from The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
1) Project name IC engine efficiency increase without compromising present
engine design
College name Team Explorers from Nehru College of Engineering and
Research Centre, Pambady, Kerala
Silver award winner
Developing a system to increase the efficiency and effectiveness
of solar water heating system
Team Veranya from College of Engineering, Pune
3) Project name
College name
Virtual speed breaker
Team Foxtrot Geeks from Hindusthan College of Engineering
and Technology, Coimbatore
2) Project name
College name
4) Project name Reverse pedal braking system
Team Trikeracers from College of Engineering, PuneCollege name
Adaptive Signal Systems for Efficient Traffic Control
Team Dynalithe Systems from Manipal Institute of Technology,
Udupi
5) Project name
College name
Green and facile synthesis of novel supercapacitor electrode
material using JUTE fibres as precursor
Team BIA from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
6) Project name
College name
Remote Road Quality Assessment and Analysis
RMR M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore
7) Project name
College name
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3.3 EV bus project Hon. Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi flagged off the Smart Electric Bus, an
indigenous technology developed by the India headquartered global technology company, stKPIT Technologies Limited, at the Indian Parliament on the 21 of December 2015. This project
was initiated by India's Minister of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) Shri. Nitin Gadkari.
The Central Institute of Road Transport (CIRT) supported this project to validate and ensure
that the electric bus technology is safe, reliable and well suited for Indian road conditions. This
initiative is inspired by Shri. Nitin Gadkari's call to the industry and research organizations to
develop indigenous, innovative and pollution free public transport for India. KPIT's Smart
Electric Bus enables clean mobility and is aligned with the Indian government's initiatives of
Make in India, Smart Cities and Swachh Bharat
The indigenously developed electric system with the IP being owned by KPIT, consists of
components like Motors, Lithium ion batteries and a power transmission unit. It is a versatile
system and features like range (100 km to 200 km), top speed (up to 100 kmph), air
conditioning etc. can be configured as required. This system is being designed to work in all
bus formats, i.e. front engine and rear engine, high floor and low floor etc.
Major Benefits from this technology would be -
1. Zero Emissions
2. Increased passenger comfort
3. Low maintenance
4. Versatile design to meet customer requirement
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Replacing one diesel bus
with an electric bus can
save carbon d iox ide
emissions up to 48,000 kg a
year which is equal to
p lant ing 2 ,400 t rees
annually. It will also save
diesel worth ₹ 10 lakh a
year.
Hybrid bus
We received an award from Indian Automotive Technology and Innovation Awards (IATIA)
titled “Technology innovation of the year 2015” for hybrid conversion technology.
Currently, we are running hybrid bus pilots along with some of the transportation
undertakings to collect data and results about the performance.
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3.4 Award List
It gives us immense pleasure to announce that KPIT has been recognized with the 'Promising Transport Innovation Award' at the International Transport Forum (ITF) 2016 Summit in Leipzig, Germany. It won the award for its technology 'REVOLO' that enables clean urban mobility.
The ITF Promising Transport Innovation Award recognizes innovations that have the potential to significantly improve the quality, performance, user experience, accessibility, sustainability or inter-modality of the transport. It is instituted by ITF, an inter-governmental organization which acts as a think tank for transport policy with 57 member nations. ITF is administratively integrated entity of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a unique forum where the governments of 34 countries with market economies work with each other, as well as with more than 70 non-member economies to promote economic growth, prosperity and sustainable development.
On receiving this award, Kishor Patil, Co-founder, MD & CEO, KPIT said: "We are honored to
receive this recognition from the International Transport Forum. It firmly establishes our
commitment to create sustainable technologies that have a positive impact on our
environment and are socially inclusive as well. Our smart electric system for buses is a
pollution-free and affordable solution which can be deployed at a very large scale." REVOLO
is a versatile system, designed to work across different bus formats. The key components of
the system are lithium ion batteries, electric motors, a power transmission unit and smart
electronic control units. The Smart Electric buses have multiple features like Intelligent
Transport Systems, Mobile Phone App for journey planning and ticketing, Wifi Infotainment
etc. which provide a superior ride experience that can help encourage adoption of public
transport.
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KPIT is currently working with multiple bus manufacturers/partners in India, South East Asia,
Africa and South America to bring this technology to market. KPIT's first electric bus with
REVOLO was flagged off by the Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in December 2015.
Two such buses are currently operating at the Indian Parliament for its members to
experience green and intelligent technology.
The award ceremony took place in the presence of ministers from 57 member countries of the
ITF. The theme of the event was 'Green and Inclusive Transport.' Kishor Patil, received the ITF
Promising Innovation in Transport Award 2016 from K. L. Thapar, Founder and Chairman,
Asian Institute of Transport Development and José Viegas, ITF Secretary-General.
04KPIT'S WAY OF
GIVING BACK
TO THE SOCIETY
4.1 Scope of our CSR initiatives
4.2 Environment
4.3 Education
4.4 Energy
4.5 Employee Engagement
4.6 Innovating, Inspiring, Appreciating
4.7 CSR initiatives in North America
4.8 Awards & Accolades
4.9 Graphical representation – Employee involvement Vs
No. of beneficiaries for CSR initiatives
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KPIT's way of giving back to the society
CSR Team
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been an intrinsic part of KPIT's philosophy ever since its
inception. KPIT has a strong social commitment to the community we live in. We fulfil this
commitment both by employee participation and financial contribution. We focus on social
initiatives, where we believe, we can add significant value to our community worldwide, through
technology, our speed of innovation and employee participation.
Our volunteering efforts are in-line with our CSR guiding principles and philosophy. We believe
that responsible volunteering has the ability to make a lasting impact, enabling us to reach
maximum number of beneficiaries across the communities. At KPIT, we aim to create a more
equitable and inclusive society by supporting communities that lead to a sustainable
transformation and social integration.
Community Contribution is one of the seven core values at KPIT. It has a significant mention in our
Mission and Vision to reflect our commitment towards it. Considering our capabilities and the
need of the communities that we serve, we have reassessed the focus of our CSR initiatives. Actions
in line with CSR guiding principles, our strategies for the year 2015-16 are focused on key initiatives
to ensure significant impact.
4.1 Scope of our CSR initiativesBeing a socially responsible business organization, we continue to push the bar higher through
technology and innovation driven CSR activities. We believe it is our moral responsibility to give
back to the community, which in so many ways has contributed to our success and helped our
business grow. Therefore, we try and make a difference to every community around us,
wherever we operate.
01 EnvironmentMaking this world a better place to live in
02 EducationTransforming lives of people through science
and technology education
03 EnergyDeveloping innovative solutions for efficient
energy consumption and renewable supply
04 Employee EngagementEnsuring employee participation to make
maximum impact
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Scope Of Our CSR Initiatives
01 Inside the campusPrimarily driven by the employee engagement activities
02 Within city limitsWithin the city limits, we conduct CSR activities in association with NGOs
03 In villages near our locationsAcross regions where KPIT has its presence
04 At places in need of emergency assistanceWe provide financial aid & undertake volunteer rescue operations during natural disasters
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4.2 EnvironmentWater Conservation Projects
Background
India has a long tradition of water harvesting. Many of the traditional water harvesting
systems are no longer utilized or have lost their relevance due to their inability to meet the
community demands. For agrarian villages located in arid and semi-arid regions of
Maharashtra, any small reduction in rainfall can jeopardize agricultural yields, drinking
water supplies and the community's entire existence. To expand on the water conservation
projects we have adopted three different models for this year. We excavated new wells in
the villages, constructed check dams, stone bunding and also initiated land levelling
programs. Further, we also collaborated with Government of Maharashtra's flagship
initiative for water conservation - Jalayukta Shivar Abhiyan.
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Farm Pond InitiativeInitiative
In order to address this issue, KPIT in association with Jnana Prabhodini an NGO and the
local village body from Kusgaon village, launched the farm pond activity in the year 2012.
We built 15 ponds across 5 villages that irrigated 500 acres land, benefiting almost 20,000
people with the support of 1,200 employees. Further in the year 2015-16, we extended our
projects in Pune and Bangalore. Two at Ranje (Shivapur, Pune) and one at Aladahalli,
Nelamangala(Bangalore). In Pune, well excavation was carried out at 4 villages namely
Dhumal Wasti, Metpilawar, Guhini Bhor & Gelhgani which was followed by construction of
two check dams at Sanaswadi.
What makes our Water Conservation project unique?
⦁ This project directly impacts 21,000 beneficiaries
⦁ This has significantly impacted the village economy
⦁ Multiple ways adopted for water conservation, leads to greater impact
⦁ Penetration of these initiatives into more number of villages is helping increase the
water levels, thus impacting the villagers in a positive manner
⦁ Collaboration with the government on the water conservation project has led to
an increase in the reach with sustainable system in place
⦁ Provides enough water supply to farmers to irrigate their lands throughout the year
1,200 acres of agricultural land under irrigation, benefiting 21,000 people
from 7 villages
Volunteers building a farm pond and check dam
Water Conservation Projects - Impact
18000
16000
14000
12000
10000
8000
6000
4000
2000
No. of Employees Engaged No. of People Impacted
2013 - 2014
2014 - 2015
2015 - 2016
515 550 6002000 2500
16500
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Jalyukta Shivar AbhiyanKPIT contributes towards making Maharashtra drought-free
Background
In a bid to make Maharashtra a drought-free state by 2019, the Maharashtra Government has
initiated the project "Jalyukta Shivar Abhiyan".The project involves deepening and widening of
streams, construction of cement and earthen stop-dams, working on drainage system and
digging of farm ponds.
As a socially responsible corporate, KPIT has decided to make villages water abundant & tanker
free.
Initiative
This project is in tandem with our CSR objective of water conservation. In association with Jnana
Prabodhini (Shiv Paradesh), KPIT volunteers conducted a survey of drought conditions in villages
near Pune. It was observed that although Kashedi village (15 km away from Panshet dam near
Pune) falls in the water catchment area of Panshet dam, it was facing acute drought issue. The only
source of drinking water in this village was a natural reservoir that was drying out, thus creating a
dependency on the government aided water tankers.
Being a small village with scarce population, there were limitations in the way Government could
fund to resolve drinking water issue of the village. After consultation with local government
authorities and Jnana Prabodhini's irrigation experts, KPIT decided to pump water into that
natural reservoir from the Panshet dam backwaters present in the vicinity of the village. Anil
Patwardhan, Chief Financial Officer & Shekhar Sonsale, AVP- Facilities & Logistics Management of
the Company flagged off this project in the village.
Impact
The project involves pumping water to a 150 Meters high by installing a pipeline (2" Diameter) of
1500 Meters. This water will be pulled by a submersible pump of 10Hp. These efforts will result in a
huge relief to the drought conditions faced by the villagers.
The uniqueness of the project lies in the synergism wherein the Government tackles the drought
condition, corporates commit to social responsibility and voluntary organizations execute these
efforts. After observing this commitment, villagers have started digging a channel for installing
the pipe line. The benefits of this water supply scheme was made available to the villagers from the
month of March 2016.
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Zero Garbage ProjectBackground
For any developing city, waste management is one of the major challenges and all the stakeholders
in the society are striving hard to resolve this issue.
Initiative
KPIT along with Janwani (the CSR wing of MCCIA, Pune) partnered with the Pune Municipal
Corporation (PMC) and other stakeholders to initiate the Zero Garbage Drive in Pune. This initiative
focuses on separating the organic and inorganic waste at the source level. Further, the organic
material is used in the biogas plant for power generation and the inorganic waste such as plastics,
glass etc. is sold as scrap. The ultimate goal of the Zero Garbage Project is to process all waste at the
ward level and provide an alternative to transporting city waste to dumping yards in the city
outskirts like Urali-Devachi village.
Impact:
In the year 2014, four zero garbage awareness rallies were organized in different wards of Pune city,
involving 215 volunteers and reaching out to 2.61 lakh properties and more than 8 lakh residents.
Due to these awareness rallies, the door-to-door collection went up to 60% and segregation up to
40%. In the year 2015-16, we organized another drive at Bavdhan which involved door to door
campaign in association with the self-help groups. We reached out to nearly 2,000 beneficiaries and
with this we successfully completed door-to-door collection for 400 households and in case of
segregation 275 households.
Further extending our reach, we conducted a cleanup drive at Hinjawadi area in association with HIA
(Hinjawadi Industrial Association) and MIDC (Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation).
The figures represent the number of employees that participated in the initiative
Zero Garbage Project Number Of Employees Engaged
815
2015 - 2016
210 2013 - 2014
250
2014 - 2015
KPITes spreading awareness about the Zero Garbage initiative
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Environment WeekBackground
We have been celebrating the Environment Week on the occasion of the "World Environment Day"
for the past six years since 2010. In the year 2015-16 we celebrated the Environment Week - 2015
from 1st June to 6th June at all our India locations with great enthusiasm and vigor. Various events
were organized to create an awareness about environment related issues and to demonstrate that
we at KPIT, 'Care for Nature'.
KPIT Pune
"Best from Waste" was the most talked about event of the Environment Week. About 3,500
employees (all India location) participated in the environment week initiatives and displayed their
creativity and enthusiasm.
Swachh Bharat Act
In line with the Swachch Bharat mission of making India clean, at KPIT Pune we organized an act
aiming at spreading awareness on making India clean. CSR team performed this skit and around 200
employees witnessed the same.
Best from Waste
As a part of the Environment week, we invited employees to come up with best product by making
use of non-recyclable/waste products. 35 employees participated in the Best form Waste
competition.
Photography Competition
KPIT on a global level had organized a photography competition with the theme “Capture your
Nature”. 25 Employees participated in this competition. Carbon Footprint, Go Green, Save the
Planet, Recycling & Global Warming were the competition themes.
Floor Walk & Quiz Competition
CSR team conducted floor walks & quiz competition in all ODCs to increase awareness about
environment conservation.
Essay Writing Competition
This year for environment week, we invited all our employees globally to write an essay on
Environment and also suggest ways to present creative solutions for a better tomorrow. 30
employees participated in this competition. The concepts for the competition were 'Smart Cities,
Environment & E-Waste (Electronic/IT waste) - How to handle the future’
KPIT Bangalore
Greenathon (Street Play) – An awareness rally on nature conservation was organized on June 6th,
2015 wherein more than 100 enthusiastic KPITes participated actively. The event aimed at educating
the masses on saving and minimum utilization of natural resources. Street Play was performed by
KPITes that aimed at driving home the message of how we are harming nature and that it is high
time to give back to the nature. Further, to continue the impact, our passionate KPITes volunteered
to conserve the Doddakanahalli, lake.
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Quiz
Quiz competition was organized to sensitize people on conservation of nature. More than 20
volunteers participated in the competition.
Clean up Drive
Clean up drive was organized in the campus wherein KPITes actively engaged in mulching and
weeding activity to ensure the rain water percolates deep into the ground during monsoons.
More than 50 volunteers participated in this activity and planted trees in the campus.
Organic Product Stall
Organic farming is a kind of farming which uses natural and biodegradable inputs from the
plants and animals and no chemical fertilizers. Consumption of products with chemical fertilizer
leads to health hazards and reduces soil fertility. Thus, in order to promote the use of organic
product, was organized in the campus. More than 250 KPITes participated in the event.
KPIT Mahape (New-Mumbai)
At Mahape as part of environment week we organized various activities to engage employees in
activities to conserve nature namely poster making competition, display of posters and photos
relating to conservation of environment, bay decoration, children's day, Origami, green & brown
attire day and NGO Mela wherein more than 120 volunteers participated collectively.
Paper Mache Workshop
In an attempt to encourage reuse and recycling of waste products, CSR Mahape conducted
“Paper Mache Workshop” for the employees. This was the third time that such a workshop was
organized. Beautiful artworks, installations and sculptures were created out of waste newspapers
and plastic bottles. The workshop was a huge success and also proved to be a great stress-
buster and evoked creativity amongst the participants.Artworks of commercial value have been
created out of waste articles and showcased how one can reuse old useless things into valuable
artworks.
As a part of the CSR Team, we continue the journey towards making the earth greener in a
sustainable manner.
Beautiful artworks made during Paper Mache workshop
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KPIT Noida (Delhi-outskirt)
Paper Recycle Drive – An awareness video was prepared about paper reuse & recycle and was
displayed at every floor and the employees were encouraged to give their used/waste papers that
were collected & donated to an NGO for reuse.
Tree Plantation Drive – Saplings were planted in the vicinity of our office premises.
Environment Quiz – An enthralling quiz was organized to spread awareness about Environment.
Winners were awarded.
Street Play – Scintillating performances were given by ASK11 Batch spreading cognizance about
Environment through this 'Nukkad Naatak’
Photography Competition – A photography competition was organized where the volunteers
were asked to capture all the Environment week events and submit their entries in the form of a
collage. The best one was rewarded.
KPITes at Pune & Bangalore spreading awareness
about environment conservation via skit and
street play
Impact
Conservation of Private Forests in Koyna-Chandoli Corridor
Background
In 2012, Wildlife Research and Conservation Society (WRCS) completed a study on the current
status, distribution and dynamics of the Private Forests at Maharashtra Western Ghats. The study
showed that the private forests at the Western Ghats needed immediate conservation efforts. At
present large number of private forests are being clear-felled for their sale as firewood, which is
an unsustainable management practice. Due to this, the vegetation cover on the private forests is
vanishing rapidly.
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Initiative
In the year 2013-14 in association with WRCS, we carried out the reforestation of 75 acres of
private land of Koyna-Chandoli corridor. To continue our efforts even this year (2015-16)
around 200 of our enthusiastic KPITes volunteered in various activities like seed collection and
sowing, watering the plants and grass clearing, vegetation assessment followed by cleaning of
grass, mulching of plants, and plantation. KPIT joined hands with WRCS for sustainable
management of private forests centered on scientific forestry.
KPITes contributing towards conservation of private forest at Koyna-Chandoli corridor
Conservation of Private Forests in Koyna-Chandoli Corridor
Impact
•Plantation and re-vegetation for establishing vegetation cover
• Objective is to conduct vegetation assessment and monitor progress of project interventions
• Extension program for informing local community about sustainable forest management
250
200
150
100
50
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160
2014 - 2015
2015 - 2016
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Tree Plantation ProgramsBuilding Oxygen Hub of Pune
Initiative
KPIT joined hands with Tree Public, an NGO, to help reduce carbon footprint by planting native
trees best known for their properties of purifying the polluted atmosphere and providing a
clean and healthy environment. In addition to the 1,000 trees planted last year, in 2015-16
nearly 250 saplings were planted by our volunteers.
Impact
⦁ Creating oxygen hubs for increasing oxygen levels
⦁ Reducing the ever-growing temperature variations in the Pune city
⦁ Reducing Carbon levels
⦁ Retaining Ground Water Table level
⦁ Increasing Bio-diversity and
⦁ Encouraging Bird Migration
We are proud to announce that each and every tree has been taken care of and the survival rate
is 100%
Initiatives at Bangalore
Tree Plantation at Shivanahalli
In 2015, as a part of the Environment week celebration at KPIT, we visited Ramakrishna Mission
Campus, Shivanahalli to restore the forest green cover and biodiversity in the Bannerughatta
National Park area. With the advent of industrialization, IT explosion and ever growing
population, Bangalore has already started losing its tag as the Garden city. Ramakrishna
Mission, Shivanahalli, have embarked upon a gigantic task of enriching the environment by
planting a variety of trees from Western Ghats and other forest region. Already 150+ acres of
land has been converted to pure forest which stands as the evidence. KPIT in association with
Youth For Seva has joined hands with Ramakrishna Mission to support this great initiative of
increasing the green cover of Bangalore by planting 300 saplings wherein 50 of our KPITes
actively participated in this initiative.
Passionate KPITes planted 300 saplings at Shivanahalli
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Afforestation at Nelamangala
In the month of August 2015, KPIT in association with Youth For Seva successfully completed
the launch of Afforestation at Nelamangala event. As a part of this afforestation initiative at
Nelamangala, 20 of our volunteers actively engaged in planting of 100 saplings along with
mulching and weeding of 50 saplings. Throughout the year 2015-16 we planted more than 500
trees across 2 villages (Aladahalli and Kerekatignur).
Tree Plantation Programs (Year 2015 -2016)
KPITes engaged in afforestation activity at Nelamangala
No. of Employees
Engaged
No. of Trees
planed
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4.3 EducationChhote Scientists – KPIT's Flagship Initiative
Chhote Scientists: An initiative to teach science fundamentals to school children with the help of
“easy-to-make” & “fun-to-learn” scientific toys
Introduction:
Chhote Scientists is a collaborative project by KPIT Technologies and Jnana Prabodhini. It is a
community and social initiative to bridge the gap between text book knowledge and real life
application of scientific principles.
Scope:
This project focuses on building scientific knowledge and awareness of basic science principles
with simple experiments, demonstration and scientific toys, among the students from selected
schools around KPIT office at Pune, Bangalore & Mumbai.
Vision:
To encourage students to think beyond text book knowledge and to educate them about
application of scientific principles in real-life.
Mission:
• Development of scientific attitude among students
• Strengthening science fundamentals and principles
The Initiative
Being a technology company, KPIT has a significant number of engineers, technology experts
and science enthusiasts. Leveraging their experience & skills, we designed a unique program
called Chhote Scientists that aims at imparting practical education and inducing scientific
thinking among school students.
Chhote Scientists was launched in 2012. Using frugally developed scientific toys, we teach
students various scientific principles primarily in the areas of electricity, motion, pressure,
energy, magnetism and electronics.
No. of Students Covered No. of Employees Engaged
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Chhote Scientists - Impact
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Media coverage for Chhote Scientists Program
Over the last four years since 2012, cumulatively this program has benefitted 10,500 students
involving 2,400 employees. 800 employees participated in this initiative in FY15-16 alone,
conducting sessions on six different themes. Total 40 schools are covered this year. We
extended this program to 10 PMC's schools (Pune Municipal Corporation) & 10 PCMC's schools
(Pimpri Chinchawad Mahanagara Palika). A total of 300 sessions have been conducted so far
across all locations, comprising of 250 sessions at Pune, 30 at Bangalore and 20 at Mahape.
To continue with our expansion plan and to reach out to more and more children we proposed
this project to the colleges to conduct Chhote Scientists programs at the school. And the pilot
was conducted in Jalana College. As part of this initiative we had nearly 60 of the college
students volunteer for our Chhote Scientists program conducting 156 session, covering 26
schools and thereby reaching nearly 7,500 children.
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vSolve CompetitionvSolve competition is held every year on the Science Day that marks the completion of the annual
calendar for 'Chhote Scientists'. Students from various government schools across Pune & Bangalore
who were trained under the Chhote Scientists program exhibit solutions that they developed by
applying scientific principles under the guidance of KPIT volunteers. Students got an opportunity to
apply their theoretical knowledge to solve real life challenges. This was a great chance for them to
take their learning to the next level.
At Pune Class 8 students were asked to purify water with the help of easily available material like sand,
charcoal, cotton, alum etc. Class 9 students had to increase the solar panel capacity by creating solar
concentrator. At Bangalore, students were asked to prepare “Balloon Car” with the help of given
material.
The students demonstrated various innovative ways and shown encouraging result. Teachers from the
school and KPITes were excited to witness the outstanding performance from the kids and participated
in huge numbers to motivate our Chhote Scientists.
Around 180 students across 35 government schools participated in the event
Teaching Classes at Thayimane, Bangalore
Thayimane is a humanitarian institute for underprivileged children and KPITes volunteer to educate
them. As a part of this initiative, KPIT volunteers met Mr. Keshvamurthy – Director of Thayimane in
January 2013 & chalked out a plan based on the number of students in various classes and the medium
of study. Initially we formed a team of 15 teachers who were experts in subject areas like Mathematics,
Science, Social Science, Computer Science, Kannada, English etc., but within 2 months, our teachers'
strength doubled, and currently our teaching team comprises 400 teachers. Our enthusiastic teachers
visit Thayimane regularly during weekends (Saturday/Sunday) to teach these students. We received
active participation from 400 volunteers completing successful 500 sessions for the FY 15-16.
Impact
The impact of consistent engagement with the children in teaching for the past 3 years at Thayimane
was commendable. The results of the committed volunteer engagement of our employees ensured the
students excelled academically. The higher primary school students passed with flying colors, while
earlier they were struggling to clear the exam. With regular and committed efforts, the students are
doing well in their exams. About 75% of the students were able to score distinction, 15% scored second
class and 10% of the students were able to pass the exams and get promoted to the next class.
Mr. Ravi Pandit, Chairman & Group CEO, KPIT talking to students during vSolve Competition
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Skill Donation
KPIT believes in employee involvement instead of merely contributing money for the society
initiatives. Under this initiative, the employees passionately transfer their skills and interests, which
they have garnered over the years, to benefit the greater community. Employees not only volunteer
to build children's skills, be it teaching Mathematics/English, dance, singing, art and craft, sports
etc., but also get an opportunity to explore their interests and meet like-minded people.
We launched this in the month of February 2016 and nearly 60 of our employees have rolled their
wheels and reaching nearly 200 beneficiaries to make a visible impact and thereby enhance the
skills of the children.
Teaching classes at Sarasvati Bal Niketan, Noida
Sarasvati Bal Niketan School was established in 2003 by a trust named Brahmashree Saraswathi
Devi Aadishakti Math. The school aims to educate the underprivileged children in the surrounding
localities. Currently a total of 350 students, from nursery to the fifth standard, are studying at the
school. For the past two years, KPIT employees have been volunteering as teachers at Sarasvati Bal
Niketan and have been visiting the school twice every month to teach these children. They employ
interactive methods, such as practical science experiments, to make learning fun for the students.
Impact
This is an ongoing initiative wherein KPIT volunteers are enhancing skills and capabilities of these
students, thereby helping them improve academically. These sessions are also making them more
confident, enhancing their practical knowledge and better understanding of the concepts. A total
of 96 sessions were conducted throughout the year involving active participation from 50
volunteers.
Glimpses of volunteers taking sessions and the entire team of Thayimane
Energetic and keen students at Bal Niketan with KPIT volunteers
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KPIT Sparkle 2016, All India Science and Engineering Students ContestKPIT with the College of Engineering Pune (CoEP) organized KPIT Sparkle 2016, an initiative
which invited brilliant ideas that will change the face of innovation in India. The theme for the
contest was 'Smart solutions for Transportation and Energy'. This contest was open to all
science and engineering bachelors, masters and Ph.D. students to participate as individuals or
teams of maximum 5 members. The winning idea received ₹ 5 lakhs while the seven runners
up won ₹ 1 lakh as the prize money.
KPIT Sparkle aims at fostering a culture of innovation and critical thinking among engineering
and science students across colleges in India. The competition with the theme of 'Smart Solutions
for Energy and Transportation' received 1,700 innovative ideas from over 10,000 students across
500 colleges in India. 54 best teams made it to the grand finale of KPIT Sparkle 2016 and top
shortlisted presented innovative and sustainable solutions through scale models and working
prototypes.
Some of the projects featured ideas on Green Energy, Alternate Fuels & Materials, Autonomous
Vehicles and Intelligent Traffic Management.
The finalists were evaluated for novelty of their ideas, completeness of prototype, fulfillment of
society's expectations/problem statement and technical knowledge at a grand exhibition held at
COEP College ground, Pune.
Team 'Assist' from The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur won the Gold award of ₹ 5 Lakhs
for their 'i-Bike' project. The bicycle model can drive itself autonomously and also be driven
manually, as and when required, in an urban bicycle-sharing system to achieve in last-mile
transportation.
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Team BIA from Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur, for the project on green and facile
synthesis of novel supercapacitor electrode
material using JUTE fibres as precursor
Team RMR from M.S Ramaiah Institute of
Technology, Bangalore for Remote Road
Quality Assessment and Analysis
Team Veranya from College of Engineering,
Pune for their for developing a system to
increase the efficiency and effectiveness of
solar water heating system
Team Trikeracers from College of Engineering,
Pune for their project on reverse pedal braking
system
Team Explorers from Nehru College of
Engineering and Research Centre, Pambady,
Kerala for their project IC engine efficiency
increase without compromising present
engine design
Team Foxtrot Geeks from Hindusthan college
of engineering and technology, Coimbatore,
for their project on virtual speed breaker
01 02
03 04
05 06
The following 7 teams won the Silver award for ₹ 1Lakh each:
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Team Dynalithe Systems from Manipal
Institute of Technology, Udupi for their project
'Adaptive Signal Systems for Efficient Traffic
Control'
Ravi Pandit, Co-founder, Chairman & Group CEO said, “We congratulate the winners and
commend all the students who participated in KPIT Sparkle 2016. We are delighted to see the
solutions that the students came up with and how creatively these were executed and
showcased. The groundbreaking scientific ideas that we received show that given an
opportunity, today's youth can not only identify critical problems but also come up with cleaner,
safer and smarter solutions. Through KPIT Sparkle 2016 we continue our endeavor to foster
scientific thinking and nurture the problem solving ability of the bright, young minds of this
country.”
Dr. R. A. Mashelkar, Head, Innovation Council said, “It is heartening to see that today's youth is
motivated to solve problems that need urgent solutions. KPIT Sparkle 2016 has once again
proved to be a brilliant platform for engineering and science students to showcase their
innovative ideas; which will resolve real world problems with the use of technology. The projects
and working models presented at the grand finale were highly impressive, not only in terms of
ideation but also because they are cost effective and potential game changers. I congratulate
the winners and wish them the very best for taking their ideas to greater heights.”
The projects were reviewed and evaluated by a jury comprising of eminent judges, consisting of
scientists, industrialists and academicians including Dr. R A Mashelkar, Head, Innovation
Council, Shri Vinit Goenka, Member IT Task Force at Ministries of Shipping, Road Transport &
Highways, Government of India; Air Marshal Shri Bhushan Gokhale, Consultant to Principal
Scientific Advisor, Govt. of India; Shri Satish Ogale, Chief Scientist, CSIR-NCL; Dr. Ashish Lele,
Polymer Science and Engineering Division, NCL (National Chemical Laboratory); Ms. Rashmi
Urdhwareshe, Director of ARAI, Prof. CS Kumar, IIT Kharagpur; Mr. Nachiket Gole, Industrial
Designer and Dr. B. B. Ahuja, Director of COEP, Prof. Devang Khakhar, Director, IIT Bombay was
the chief guest at the awards ceremony.
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27
9
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333
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92
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1
3
6
21
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Following is the State-wise data for the 1700 ideas/abstracts received from all over India
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School Kit Drive Initiative
In association with "Seva Sahayog" & "Youth for Seva", we have been conducting the "School Kit
Drive" for the last 7 years and have received an excellent response and participation from KPITes.
In the year 2015-16 around 1,300 employees participated and donated 3,700 school kits.
Another fun-filled part of this drive is the assembly of the school kits. The whole process included
checking the quality of the bags, assembling and final quality check of the packed school kits.
The activity consists of putting everything together and making sure that the bag is ready for
delivery. Around 200 employees along with their families participated in this drive this year.
Impact
As per the feedback received from Seva Sahyog, there has been a tremendous decrease in school
dropout ratio in rural, urban and tribal areas where we are delivering our kits.
School Kit Drive - Impact
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Volunteers assembling school kits for the underprivileged students
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Audio Recording for the visually impairedThis year in March 2016 we launched a new CSR initiative at Bangalore “Audio recording for the
visually impaired” taking a step towards building an inclusive society. The Digital Library was started
in May 2008 and aims to reach out and catalyze education for the print-disabled persons (visually
impaired, slow-learners and dyslexic children). The disabled students produce their text books
which need to be converted into a digital form, volunteers who wish to record these books help in
converting the text books. The final audio is put in a CD and the students can use it according to
their convenience. The library now has hundreds of books and the number is growing. The type of
recording done helps students learn easily. Nearly 83 of our KPITes participated in this initiative.
4.4 ENERGYMild-concentrated solar Photovoltaic technology
As we all know, India is heavily dependent on other countries for the crude oil-related energy
resources. Hence, in order to be self-reliant, we need to substantially increase our usage of
renewable energy resources, such as solar, wind and biodiesel. Solar being the most abundant and
also technologically advanced energy source amongst these, the Indian Government has
announced for reaching 100GW solar Photovoltaic (PV) installation by 2022.
Most of the solar panels available today are made of poly- or mono-crystalline silicon wafers.
Silicon wafers fabrication process is extremely capital intensive and this is why we do not have a
manufacturing unit of Silicon wafers in India. Hence India has been completely dependent on China
and other countries for the import of these wafers as they are available at low cost and thus are
affordable.
The solar PV technology that KPIT Technologies has
innovated, deals with this challenge. We have
developed a low-cost and light weight concentrator,
which can concentrate up to 3-5 times the light that is
incident on it. Due to this, the usage of silicon wafers
has decreased up to 70% in the panel. Such a mild-
concentrated PV system generates around same
wattage/area as a conventional panel would, at a 20-
30% lesser cost. The technology is now available to
voluntary organizations for social cause.
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4.5 Employee EngagementBlood Donation
Initiative
KPIT, in association with various NGOs across different locations organize blood donation camps to
help hospitals and blood banks tackle the blood shortage issue. We received very good response from
employees across all locations.
Figures represent the number of employees participated and associated Partner NGO
Blood Donation - Impact
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800
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700
02013-14 2014-15 2015-16
NGO Fair
Every year, on account of the auspicious Hindu festival -Diwali, our partner NGOs are invited to the
NGO Fair organized at KPIT premises in Pune. In 2015, five NGOs were a part of the fair. With this we
reached out to nearly 500 beneficiaries.
KPIT employees donating blood selflessly
Eco-friendly products on display for sale by NGOs – Volunteers helping NGOs raise fund
Number of Employees Engaged
707
250
100
50
Location
PuneBangalore
Mahape
Noida
Partner NGOs
Jankalyan Blood Bank & Deenanath Blood Bank
Sankalp Foundation
Wamanrao Oka Blood BankRotary Noida Blood Bank
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Nirmal Shaala – A step towards Swachh Bharat
Nirmal Shaala in association with Youth For Seva aims at facilitating the construction, operation
& maintenance of toilets in all government schools in Bangalore. As a part of the Swachh Bharat
Abhiyan, volunteers were required who could conduct a survey on the toilet conditions in
schools. Around 50 volunteers participated in this initiative.
KPIT Volunteers conducting survey on toilet condition in schools
Annadaan
“Annadānam Samam Dānam Trilokeshu Na Vidyathe” from the Vedas means that Anna Dāan /
Food donation is supreme and incomparable to any other charity. Food is the basic requirement
for all living beings, including humans.
Through this unique initiative of Annadaan we requested our colleagues to put aside one
handful of grain every day, for three weeks. Around 4,000 employees participated to amass
10,734 kgs of food grains for this year that helped nearly 2,000 beneficiaries across Pune,
Bangalore, Mahape & Noida.
Contributions reaching the beneficiaries
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KPIT's CSR Team extending support to disaster struck areas
Chennai Flood Relief Fund
Chennai, a city of 4.6 million people on India's south east coast, was reeling from the heaviest
and deadliest rains in decades. In October 2015, flooding killed at least 280 people in the region.
About 28,000 people were rescued and more than 1.25 lakh people were evacuated. Despite
combined rescue efforts by the military and civilian emergency services, some areas were yet to
receive relief and undertake rescue operations. KPIT decided to support our Partner NGO Youth
For Seva in rehabilitation work. We raised ₹ 10, 00,000/- which has been deployed in medical aid
of the flood victims.
Nepal Earthquake Relief Fund
The 2015 Nepal earthquake that killed more than 7,000 people and injured more than twice as
many, occurred on 25 April, with a moment magnitude of 7.8 on Richter scale. It was the most
powerful disaster to strike Nepal since the-1934 Nepal-Bihar earthquake. KPIT CSR Team was
part of the immediate rescue work and also initiated the rehabilitation work.
KPIT CSR team at Nepal engaged in rehabilitation work
Donation Drive
Nelgunda English School
Nelgunda is a remote village in the lush green forest, 350 kms away from Nagpur. There is an
existing modest infrastructure of two rooms initially made for the Zilla Parishad School. The
building today stands in a dilapidated state. The plan is to modify the existing infrastructure &
make it operational for 40 students in first year of operation and the Nelgunda School need
help on the following facilities
• Set up the necessary furniture
• Construct a kitchen-shed cum storage-area, as the school will provide breakfast and lunch to
the enrolled children
• Construct usable toilet-blocks
• Provide portable water to students and staff
KPIT came forward to support Nelgunda English School, A Project by Lok Biradari Prakalp,
started and run by Dr. Prakash and Dr. Mandakini Amte. Nearly 500 employees contributed
towards this initiative supporting the education of nearly 1,000 children.
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4.6 Innovating, Inspiring, Appreciating … To inspire our volunteers we organized a review meet called "CSR Manthan 2015". As part of this
activity, we held a small get-together with our Chairman Mr. Ravi Pandit at his residence.
Volunteers shared their experiences and gave valuable suggestions to take this volunteering
movement to the next level. Our NGO partners joined us for this brain-storming session. Mr.
Ravi Pandit appreciated the hard work put forth by the volunteers and also congratulated them
for their success. He thanked all the NGO partners for their valuable support. We also invited
Ms.Lila Poonawalla, an Indian industrialist, philanthropist, humanitarian, an award recipient of
the fourth highest civilian award Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1989 to motivate our
volunteers. At Bangalore, CPOO Mr. Abhishek Sinha appreciated the volunteers on their efforts
and encouraged them to take it to the next level with more participation from the team
members.
In continuation with our efforts we invited Dr. Prakash Amte and Dr. Mandakini Amte to share
their inspirational life story. To spread the positivity and encourage our volunteers we have
launched CSR Snippet on the Company’s ecube portal.
Nelgunda School after the renovation
Glimpses of CSR Manthan & Eminent personalities addressing our Volunteers
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4.7 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives, North AmericaCSR North America Welcomes Earth day April!
The 1st Annual KPIT NA IBU/SBU Earth Day Challenge powered by Joulebug in honor of Earth Day
2015 began in the month of April. As part of KPIT’s “ONE KPIT” initiative and in conjunction with our
CSR efforts, the NA CSR group has sponsored our 1st Annual KPIT NA Earth Day IBU/SBU
Challenge powered by Joulebug, an interactive Smartphone app created in a game-like format
dedicated to tracking sustainable actions. Actions include but are not limited to: recycling, using
reusable cups and plates instead of disposable, walking or biking instead of traveling by car, taking
the stairs instead of the elevator, conserving energy by turning lights and equipment off, etc. The
Challenge was organized from April 16 – April 23 and has pit IBUs and SBUs against each other as
they try to earn the most points and secure the coveted “KPIT Cup”.
KPITes taking up the Earth Day Challenge
Tutoring - Wake NCSU STEM Early College High School
In continuation with our tutoring program for the Wake NCSU STEM Early College High School.
Even for the FY15-16 we witnessed more number of Raleigh KPITes visit students needing support
each week and provided tutoring services in Trigonometry, Algebra and Chemistry.
In the month of March 2016, KPITes at Raleigh office hosted STEM early college high school
students for “Job Shadow Day”. Students met members of the technical team who talked to them
about what it is like to work for a global technology company. These students participated in
interactive activities and were able to ask questions and tour the office. To close the month of
March 2016, Raleigh KPITes hosted a student information event on the campus of North Carolina
State University. The team met with over 100 Computer Science undergraduates to educate them
on KPIT as a company and provide mentorship and guidance as they begin to look for employment
after graduation.
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KPIT team member on advisory board of NCSU
CSR NA Committee member, Nicole Chahboun, EPLM Partnerships and Global Sourcing
Manager, joined the North Carolina State Early College STEM School's Business Advisory panel.
Nicole is on this panel amongst some very important executive level people from well-known
US companies such as SAS, Duke/Progress Energy, IBM and others. Individuals are hand chosen
and go through a rigorous interview process. Nicole is meeting with the group on a monthly
basis to discuss programing, events and other opportunities. Being a part of the front end
discussions, Nicole positioned KPIT appropriately to continue our deep involvement with the
school and its students.
KPITes teaching students at Wake NCSU STEM Early College High School
Design Programs & Recruitment geared up
Raleigh CSR team ramped up involvement with North Carolina State University (NCSU);
participating in both the NCSU Sr. Design program and several recruiting events came by
specifically towards computer science majors.
The Sr. Design program allows Corporations from across the nation provide real-world learning
experiences for NCSU students as part of the colleges required coursework, CSC 492.
Organizations provide a problem statement and a mentor team, and the university provides
talented students suited to the needs of the project. Under the direction of the Senior Design
Center staff, the student teams follow a software development methodology; develop project
documentation and present progress reviews. This unique academic and experiential focus
gives students the opportunity to enhance their communication, collaboration, project
management and leadership skills. This creates a true "win-win" situation for both company
sponsors and NCSU students.
CSR team Raleigh submitted a proposal entitled “ASD Simplified Technical English Grammar
Proofing” - Simplified Technical English, or Simplified English, is a controlled language originally
developed for aerospace industry maintenance manuals. STE was created for use in the
aerospace and defense industries, but other industries have used it as a basis for their own
controlled English standards. STE is a carefully limited and standardized subset of English that
addresses difficulties in comprehension such as complex sentence structures, confusing word
forms and ambiguous vocabulary. STE is defined by the specification ASD-STE100, which is
maintained by the Simplified Technical English Maintenance Group (STEMG). The specification
contains a set of restrictions on the grammar and style of procedural and descriptive text. It also
contains a dictionary of approximately 875 approved general words. The specification also
provides writers guidelines for adding technical names and technical verbs to their
documentation.
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While there are several existing products to assist in document proofing for ASD-STE, no clear
leader has emerged. Additionally, none of them integrates seamlessly into Microsoft Office.
The student team will work with KPITes to implement a Grammar Proofing system based on
specific identified rules.
Career Fair & Expo
On February 3, 2016, Raleigh KPITes attended the North Carolina State University Engineering
Spring Career Fair and Expo. The team met with 200+ Computer Science undergraduate and
graduate students. During the event, students shared details of their current and past projects
as well as career aspirations while KPITes provided feedback and advised them.
KPITes from Raleigh office at Career fair & Expo
Food Drive
During the month of May 2015, CSR NA sponsored a food donation drive to benefit families
being helped by the Women's Center of Wake County. The collection ran from April 10 – May 15
and helped to restock the Women's Center pantry with much needed food and toiletry items.
Further in July, a group from KPIT Raleigh employees headed to the Ronald McDonald house of
Durham, NC to prepare and serve dinner to the 75 families currently being helped by the
organization. The KPIT team prepared and served pulled pork, macaroni and cheese,
vegetables and lots of dessert to what turned out to be a very appreciative group of families.
In March this year a group visited Ronald McDonald House where they prepared and served
lunch to families of sick children staying at the facility. All food items and paper products were
also donated by the team.
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In December 2015 we organized a holiday toy drive where toys were collected to benefit the
Women's Center of Wake County. The group was able to collect over 75 new toys which were
donated to a number of extremely thankful families. The Women's Center of Wake County
provides case management, financial assistance counseling, nutrition assistance, short term
shelter and health education and testing services to single women and women with families.
KPIT employees posing with toys donated to the Women's Center of Wake County
Marathon
In August 2015, the Raleigh team sponsored Small Hands Big Hearts United (SHBHU) first ever
5k /10k Run fundraiser. Funds raised by the each of the 150+ registered runners will be used for
active SHBHU committees and Compassion Missions that are helping to nurture the instinctive
compassion of children in the Raleigh area.
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Veterans Corporate Technology Day
On November 19, 2015 Raleigh KPITes attended the Veterans Corporate Technology Day
(VCTD) hosted by CISCO and in partnership with the United Service Organizations of North
Carolina (USO, NC) and North Carolina State University (NCSU). Veterans Corporate
Technology Day (VCTD) is day focusing on recruiting military veterans, easing their transition to
civilian life and connecting them with educational and career opportunities in information and
communications technology (ICT). Ken Ratashak, Director ePLM Practice, was selected as a
panelist and spoke to 150+ attendees about his transition from the army into civilian life. He
provided examples and different educational tools that the attendees could use to help them
land a job in the Technical Field.
Corporate Veterans talking to Military personnel, guiding them for a career in ICT
Launch of Community Initiatives at Columbus Indiana
In the year 2016, we launched corporate social responsibility volunteering activities at our
Columbus Indiana location. As part of this initiative a team of 7 volunteers participated towards
clothes segregation activity at Sans Souci.
Enthusiastic volunteers participating in the CSR launch activity
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4.8 Awards & AccoladesKPIT Honored with the 'Best CSR Practice Award' by the World CSR Congress
The 'Best CSR Practice Award' is conferred to companies for their outstanding activities in the
field of social work. The awards saw participation from around 280 companies, out of which only
30 companies made it to the final.
On 7th December 2015, KPIT was honored with the 'Best CSR Practice Award' by the World CSR
Congress in an award ceremony held in Mumbai.
KPIT was recognized for its exemplary CSR work in the fields of education, energy and
environment. KPIT supports these CSR projects financially as well as engages employees in
these activities.
‘Best CSR Practice Award' being received by KPIT at the World CSR Congress (Mumbai)
Amity Award
In the year 2014, KPIT Technologies won the Amity
CSR Award in the IT category. This award was
given to KPIT for its innovative and metrics-driven
CSR initiatives in the field of Education and
Environment. Amity awarded KPIT with a Special
Recognition Award for extraordinary work in the
field of CSR in 2015.
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4.9 YOY Number of Beneficiaries v/s Employee Engagements Employee Engagements v/s Beneficiaries of our CSR initiatives
As per our CSR guidelines, all practices and initiatives should be metrics-driven for greater
transparency and to ensure measurable results. We aim to achieve employee engagements
equal to or greater than 1.5 times of total employee strength in a given year. For the year 2015-
16, we reached nearly 53,093 beneficiaries with 16,044 employee engagements in the
community initiatives. We, at KPIT, are proud to announce that, in adherence to our objective to
achieve employee engagements for the FY 15-16, we could successfully reach out to more
beneficiaries and engage more number of employees in CSR initiatives than ever before.
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055.1 KPIT Green Campus
5.2 Power
5.3 Project undertaken at KPIT for reduction in
power consumption for desktops
5.4 Air Conditioning
5.5 Lighting
5.6 Water
5.7 Waste Management at KPIT Campus
5.8 Environment Awareness Campaigns
5.9 Occupational Health & Safety
5.10 New Campus coming up in Phase III
ENVIRONMENT
INITIATIVES AT KPIT
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Being an environment conscious company, KPIT is also committed toward ensuring people
health and safety, has adopted the best practices from ISO14001, in the area of environmental
management and from OHSAS18001, in the area of occupational health and safety.
KPIT's IT Campus at Pune aims at creating an environment that fosters creativity through
collaboration. The facility has been built to promote business locally and to aid global growth.
The campus at Hinjawadi, Pune, is spread across a sprawling 480,000 sq. ft. that comprises four
buildings with a combined seating capacity of 4200+ employees with access to open landscape
through the ground floor. The campus design is not only an insignia of KPITs commitment to
energy efficiency and sustainable development, but also embodies the spirit of corporate values
– boundarylessness, knowledge sharing and team work.
Being a socially responsible IT services company, KPIT neither consumes non-renewable
resources of energy nor does it generate process waste or emissions as compared to a
conventional manufacturing industry. Due to the nature of our business, we utilize resources like
energy, water and other secondary resources. While we do acknowledge its impact on the
environment, we have robust processes and systems in place to identify, quantify and reduce
such impact on the environment.
Environment Initiatives at KPIT
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5.1 KPIT Green Campus:The facility enables optimum energy utilization to provide water efficiency and a low lifecycle
maintenance cost.
Glass has been used extensively on the north side of the building to let plenty of natural light into the
building without any direct sun-rays falling on it, thus reducing the heat load.
Use of skylights ensure natural light inside the building thus reducing the need for artificial lighting.
Double glazing with reflective glass has been used along the east and west sides of the buildings that
are cladded with dry Moeding tiles. This along with the services core located on the South side
further reduces the heat load on the buildings. Use of soft landscape in the exteriors and interiors
reduces glare and radiation to a great extent. This helps in keeping a micro climatic control on the
exteriors as well.
5.2 Power: Today, conservation of electrical energy is extremely important for two major reasons:
⦁ Scarcity of power, that results in load shedding in almost all states of India, that in turn is not only
inconvenient but also adversely impacts the economy.
⦁ India is world's third largest carbon emission country, primarily because more than 60% of power is
generated using coal.
As a responsible corporate, KPIT has been undertaking various initiatives to reduce energy
consumption that has resulted in a reduction of 9 % KWH units per person with respect to last year
and overall reduction of 35% in energy consumption over the past 9 years.
KWH consumption per person for 2015-16
Power consumption is primarily required for three major areas namely:
● Computers and Servers
● Air conditioning
● Lighting
● Utility
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Computers and Data Centre: Of the total power consumption, 38% is by computers and data
centers. Efforts are being made to reduce this figure. Some of these efforts are listed below:
⦁ Server virtualization – 99% servers are consolidated and virtualized reducing data center
footprint as well as reduction in power consumption by 30%
⦁ We have implemented Flash storage technology (EMC ExtremIO) that helps us reduce the
power consumed by storage devices by 70%.
⦁ Soft phones: We focus on implementing various collaboration based technologies to reduce
travel and also investment in hard phones requiring additional power. We have implemented
CISCO Jabber technology integrated with IP telephony and Telepresence (Cisco Video
conferencing solution) across all our global offices. This has helped us reduce the need to
travel globally.
⦁ PC Shut down drives are undertaken frequently to curtail power consumption during non-
working hours. Employees are informed through mailers and posters to switch off their PCs
while not in use. This drive resulted in 95% reduction in such cases. Additionally, effective
power management tool has been installed on all desktops.
5.3 Project undertaken at KPIT for reduction in power consumption
for desktops:Name of the Project: Virtual desktop environment
Like majority of business organizations globally, KPIT also relies on its internal IT
implementations to make processes more efficient, increase automation and also deploy IT to
make collaboration across geographies easier. We have deployed the most advanced
technologies for our processes. These deployments are scalable and future ready to support
changing work styles, information security criteria and the changing usage patterns of
computing devices.
Environmental Challenges
The organization faces the following operational and environmental challenges:
⦁ Power Consumption: Power consumption increases in equal proportion to the number of
employees. Therefore there is a constant need to control this with energy efficient solutions
⦁ Space Utilization: Standalone computers with existing technologies are user specific and
prevent optimum space utilization and easy transferability.
⦁ Consumption of Natural Resources: Due to the advancement in technology, computers need
to be replaced every 5 years to be energy efficient.
⦁ Disposing of E-waste: Disposing of computers every 5 year result in an increase in E-waste.
Operational Challenges
⦁ As a fast growing organization, KPIT constantly requires efficient and scalable IT
infrastructure.
⦁ Our existing solutions reaching their lifecycle's end result in performance issues, which in turn
pressurizes the internal IT staff to spend most of their time on system administration and
troubleshooting.
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Solution:
Considering the challenges, KPIT decided to shift from conventional desktop technology to
Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI). Following operational aspects were considered while
implementing the VDI solution:
⦁ Deliver on-demand services to users
⦁ Increase IT efficiency
⦁ Simplify management
⦁ Ensure software compliance
Though KPIT was already evaluating a virtualization solution that was deployed in a limited
environment, it had not explored the idea of transitioning the core ERP processes onto the
virtualized environment, but had transitioned only the less critical ones.
Taking a step further toward optimizing energy requirement and consumption, KPIT decided to
increase virtualization.
Solution and technology Deployed
⦁ VMware, EMC and CISCO Infrastructure Platforms
⦁ VMware Horizon View virtual desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
⦁ Thin client
Following Environmental Returns were achieved:
1. Energy savings:
More than 60% reduction in energy consumption was achieved by moving to the private cloud
platform with VDI as compared to using conventional computers. Cisco Unified Computing
System, which is included as part of the private cloud platform, delivers high-memory capacity
to support a large number of virtual machines on each blade server, thus reducing the amount
of physical equipment to be powered and cooled. The desktop computers that consume
around 150 watts of electricity, were replaced with very small devices called thin clients that
consume just 30 watts. This has resulted in energy savings of approximately 3,00,000 units per
year amounting to 375 MT of Co emission. 2
2. Reduction in E-waste:
Almost 90% reduction in e-waste generation was achieved due to the increased IT hardware
refreshment cycle for desktops, laptops & workstations.
Lifespan of the above mentioned hardware is about 5 years due to high resource requirement,
capacity & performance demand due to newer operating systems, application software & tools.
Being a technology provider it is extremely important for us to update our IT hardware platform
and ready it for next generation development tools.
3. The thin client on the other hand has more than 8 years of lifespan. Till that time it does not
require any upgradation or replacement as all the resources like computing power, memory &
disk space are accessed through VDI setup hosted in the datacenter. The overall reduction of E -
waste considering 10 years cycle for 1600 thin clients is given below:
4. Reduced IT Asset Ratio from 1.20:1 to 1.10:1:
VDI environment enables multiple users to access their accounts using a single machine without
compromising on the security aspect. Before deploying the virtual desktop environment, the
asset-to-employee ratio was 1.20:1. This meant that much of the IT infrastructure was
underutilized and was consuming more natural resources. After the deployment of the private
cloud platform with VDI, the asset ratio has reduced to 1.10:1 thereby reducing the computer
hardware consumption by 10%.
5. Workplace utilization increased by 10%:
The VDI helped in improving the utilization and flexibility of IT assets. Users can access their
desktop, applications and data from any location, without compromising on the security of the
system. Also employees can connect to corporate resources using any of the personal devices like
iPads, windows & android based mobiles; thus enabling consumerization of IT. This has led to
workplace flexibility & optimal utilization of workspace i.e. reduction in demand for 120 new seats
amounting to saving of 10,200 sq. ft. of space.
6. Change in UPS system for power efficiency:
KPIT has invested around ₹ 34 lacs for changing over to a better UPS system. This will give us
better power efficiency thereby reducing the UPS power consumption by 10% per annum.
5.4 Air Conditioning: Consumes almost 40% of power, which is the highest compared to any other resources. Major
investments were carried out for adopting energy efficient VRF technology. The VRF technology,
which facilitates local cooling and controls, resulted in considerable savings vis-a-vis a
conventional central AC system.
Apart from the basic infrastructure various operational initiatives were undertaken to reduce the
consumption such as:
• Grouping of ACs w.r.t project functioning schedules
• Closely monitoring the AC system during various seasons, by operating the system w.r.t ambient
temperature that resulted in approximately 30% reduction in electrical consumption
• Optimizing on fresh air intake that reduces heat load on air conditioning system
• Installing AC remote controls in every cabin near the exit door to reduce unwanted usage of AC
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Thin clients disposal after 8 years 1600 nos @ 1.88 Kg 3.08 MT E- waste
Savings in E Waste 35.72 MT E -waste
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5.5 Lighting:Apart from using natural lighting, steps were undertaken to reduce power requirement for
artificial lighting. Some of these are:
• Installing motion sensors to automatically switch off the lights whenever not in use
• Installing solar street lights along the perimeter road
• Installing timers to control street lights as required
• Washrooms and staircases are powered by hybrid solution of waste air cogeneration system and
PV solar panels
• LED lighting has been installed in one building whereby 56 watts consumed by a normal T-5
lamp was reduced to 14W of LED giving the same results however, reducing 75% lighting load
vis-à-vis kwh consumption.
5.6 Water:Water is used only for domestic purposes and is the second largest natural resource consumed by
KPIT. Therefore investments were made to reduce fresh water consumption by setting up a
sewage treatment plant (STP) within the campus. Now 70% of the water gets treated through STP
and is recycled & used for gardening purposes. Apart from recycling of water, a number of other
initiatives are also undertaken to reduce consumption of fresh water such as:
• Installing drip irrigation system for internal gardens
• Maintaining optimum pressure within water lines to reduce water wastage
• Regulating water flow at all the outlets practicing dry toilet concept at almost all the toilets
• Arresting leakages in pipelines and taps
• Engaging and educating employees through awareness drives
• Provision of hot water to the gymnasium and cafeteria kitchen using solar energy
The above initiatives that have been running for the last 4 years have been resulting in 11%
reduction in water consumption year-on-year. The following table captures the per capita water
consumption:
Monthly water consumption/person
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5.7 Waste Management: At KPIT CampusBeing an IT services company, there are no significant primary emissions or process wastes. Due
to the nature of our business, waste generation is limited and restricted primarily to municipal
solid waste (MSW). Other wastes include e-waste and a small proportion of hazardous waste like
lead-acid batteries, electrical waste, waste lube oil etc. Our waste management practice seeks to
reduce the environmental impact of this limited waste to the maximum extent possible by
reduction in generation and segregation at source.
Different methods of disposal for each category of waste in our workplace is summarized below:
• Bio-degradable food and garden waste – Vermicomposting
• Recyclable waste such as paper, plastic, card paper, steel, other metals etc. are sent for recycling
through authorized scrap dealers
• Other mixed dry waste - Sent to authorized dealers for municipal disposal
• Hazardous waste and E-waste – like waste lube oil, UPS batteries and other E-waste generated in
the organization is disposed through government authorized recyclers
• Printer and toner cartridges - Sent back to the OEM under product take-back arrangement
We have managed to reduce food wastage by 37% through continuous employee awareness
initiatives like posters, daily food waste generation communication, etc.
Bio-degradable (Food and Garden) Waste:
Disposal of biodegradable waste was a major concern
for KPIT as it generated a lot of methane gas if it was
dumped in the open. Hence a vermicomposting plant
with a capacity up to 175 kg was commissioned in KPIT
in 2011. KPIT switched to a new technology of
vermicomposting in June 2014. This system can intake
around 100 kg of biodegradable waste on a daily basis
and generate compost on a daily basis which is used in
garden as manure. The vermicomposting plant help in
consuming the entire food and garden waste
generated in the organization on a daily basis.
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Municipal solid and recyclable waste:
KPIT ensures that solid waste is segregated at the point of generation. Waste bins placed at
strategic places, continuous employee awareness through floor walks, posters and digital
communication has helped us reduce 53% of the municipal solid waste in the year 2015-16.
Similarly, recyclable waste is sent to an authorized vendor for recycling.
Paper is a major recyclable waste that we generate within the organization.
KPIT has therefore taken some effective steps to reduce paper and other office articles. These are:
⦁ Strict policy on the issue of papers to employees
⦁ Discontinuing supply of notepads to employees
⦁ Optimum usage of paper as rough pads
⦁ Bare minimum stationary supply to employees
⦁ Reduction in the availability of printing machines in office
⦁ Purchase of stationary consumables and other office consumables on imprest system
The above steps have not only helped KPIT achieve significant reduction in paper consumption
but also reduce generation of municipal waste by 9% Y-o-Y, despite the increase in employee
numbers.
Regular training to housekeeping staff and employee awareness has also resulted in better waste
segregation and increased recyclable waste by a whopping 66% over the last four years which also
indirectly helps in revenue generation.
Municipal Waste in Kgs (2015-16)
Recyclable Waste in Kgs (2015-16)
Sewage Treatment Plant: We installed and commissioned a STP plant having a capacity of
125,000 litres, which now helps in treating and recycling sewage water. The stored recycled water
is used for gardening purposes.
E-waste Management:
E-waste generated at KPIT includes defunct
computers, monitors, servers, etc. and specific
electronic and electrical items. This is managed as
per KPIT’s e-waste management policy, which
complies with the Government of India’s e-waste
(Management and Handling) Rules, 2011.
In FY 2015-16, 367 computers were disposed
through government authorized handlers/
recyclers. In addition, 116 computers were
donated to charitable institutions.
Hazardous Waste:
Hazardous waste is disposed through
authorized agencies as per the guidelines of
MoEF- (Ministry of Environment and Forests).
Additionally, all the used printer cartridges are
sent back to the manufacturer under “Planet
HP Take Back Program” to ensure proper
recycling.
5.8 Environment Awareness Campaigns:An e-learning module on environmental awareness has been made available on the employee
portal. The module is designed to create awareness on key environmental issues and initiatives
undertaken by the organization and the employee role in these initiatives. Various environmental
awareness campaigns are planned and carried out throughout the year for employee
engagement.
5.9 Occupational Health and Safety:KPIT constantly undertakes initiatives to ensure the safety and well-being of its employees at
workplace.
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External Faculty Visits & Lectures on Health and Safety
A healthcare center has been set up at KPIT that offers all its employees free medical consultation
within the premises. We have a general physician, dietician, gynecologist and counsellor visiting on a
regular basis. In addition, KPIT also organizes sessions by external medical faculty in various fields.
Employee Awareness Drive @ KPIT
EOHS team organizes, plans and executes various programs, events, awareness etc. KPIT follows the
framework of incidents investigations which is tracked through incident management sheet
developed in-house. High risk, medium risk, low risk and near miss incidents are captured in the
sheet upon which CAPA is done for each incident. All incidents are reported to
workplacesafety@kpit.com
Employee Transport and Safety
KPIT strongly believes that the safety and security of its employees is intrinsic to its core values.
One of the major focus areas from employee safety perspective is commuting in individual
transport or company provided transport.
Some of the safety measures taken are:
⦁ Mandatory alcohol tests are carried out for all drivers at the time of departure
⦁ Annual medical check-up mandatory for all cab drivers
⦁ Security escorts provided for female employees traveling between 2000 hrs to 0600 hrs and
being the last one to be dropped or the 1st one to be picked-up
⦁ All cabs departing after 2000 hrs having a female employee are tracked and monitored
continuously
⦁ Periodic training sessions planned for all cab drivers on safety, first aid, traffic discipline etc.
⦁ Incident reporting, root cause analysis, CAPA for all major and minor incidents are undertaken
⦁ Do’s and don’ts list and emergency contact helpline has been made mandatory on all the
vehicles
⦁ Only cabs upto 5 years vintage are used for employee commute
⦁ Usage of seat belts and helmets has been mandated within the premises
⦁ Yoga sessions are arranged for cab drivers to ensure they are stress free while driving
Some important events which were celebrated at KPIT to create employee awareness and also to
ensure that the employees live a healthy and stress free life are as follows:
Some of the initiatives undertaken for
employee safety and awareness are:
⦁ Awareness posters and mails
⦁ Work place exercises
⦁ Health and safety education through
floor walks
⦁ Evacuation drills and first aider’s training
⦁ Newsletters
⦁ E-learning module on EOHS for all employees
World Day for Safety
& Health at Work
World No Tobacco Day
World Environment Day
World Population Day
World Heart Day
World Diabetic Day
World Aids Day
Laugh Out Loud
World Cancer Day
World Save Water Day
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29/05/2015
05/06/2015
10/07/2015
29/09/2015
16/11/2015
01/12/2015
13/01/2016
04/02/2016
29/03/2016
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Gymnasium facility
KPIT has an in-house state of the art gymnasium
with a dedicated instructor. A “Health History
form” is duly filled and maintained by the
instructor for each employee. Customized
training schedule is prepared for each employee
and the workout sessions are monitored by the
instructor.
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Recreation facility
KPIT has a fully equipped recreation area & music room for employees to unwind in their free time.
Various indoor tournaments like Table Tennis, Carrom, Pool, Chess etc. are organized periodically.
Music classes are also conducted by external experts to impart training on playing various musical
instruments. Various sessions of meditation and yoga classes are held to benefit employees.
5.10 New Campus coming up in Phase-IIIAt Hinjawadi (Pune) phase III, KPIT is coming
up with facility of around 2.00 Lac Sq.ft with
scenic surrounding that comprises three
blocks with a combined seating capacity of
2000 + employees. The new campus will have
access to open landscape and water body
through its podium level. The campus design is
unique as the building block is built on a
terrain that merges into the hills, with
minimum earth excavation being carried out.
Aspects like innovation, uniqueness, efficiency
and purity were considered while designing
the campus. We are thriving to accomplish
every possible aspect to make the campus one
of the best possible work space.
It's architecture and interior will give an elevated
experience of work area with open meeting
rooms, discussion areas, informal seating etc.
Glass has been used extensively to allow plenty
of natural light into the building with provision to
avoid direct sun-rays falling on it, thus reducing
the heat load and giving clear view of the green
surrounding around.
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KPIT Green Campus:
The campus is seated amidst natural scenic beauty with hill and green vegetation in the backdrop. This also created a challenge in terms of optimum rain water storage as the water would flow off through the hill. Approximately 97,500 Lac litres of this water was channelized along the plot through swell, ponds, bunds and quarry. Terrace water collection system is designed for efficient collection of rain water.
Out of the total land, 25,000 sq. meter area on ground will be used for landscaping. Around 1000 fruit and flower plants will be planted of 29 different species.
Sewage water generated will be treated by
Sewage Treatment Facility with Soil Bio
Technology (SBT) system. The treated water will
be used for toilet flushing and irrigation
purposes to achieve zero discharge.
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066.1 Employee Engagement
6.2 Employee Recreation
6.3 Other initiatives
6.4 Performance Appraisal
6.5 Rewards and Recognition
6.6 Employee Competency Development
6.7 Labour Practices Strategy and
Management Approach
6.8 Employment and compensation
6.9 Talent Acquisition
Employee Engagement
At Kpit
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT AT KPIT
6.1 Employee EngagementIt is established that engaged employees are more productive. To ensure employee engagement, it is
important that we connect with our employees, engage them in various activities that are work related
and also beyond work & enable them with various mediums to share their ideas and make themselves
heard. We at KPIT always strive to create a two way communication with our employees where we
encourage exchange of ideas and thus foster an open and transparent culture within the organization.
KPIT's employee engagement framework aims to ensure that we are able to stay in constant touch with
our employees and address their concerns as identified in various forums. Within this framework, we have
identified different mediums that ensure employees are connected with and are benefited by being a part
of our success story. Various synchronous communication channels have been identified and established
wherein the message from the senior management and leadership team is circulated amongst all the
employees at KPIT. This communication is interactive thus creating a collective sense of involvement and
ownership amongst the employees.
Following channels have been established to foster communication:
⦁ Bi-Annual Connect: Our Group CEO addresses the entire organization bi-annually on various business
developments and shares his vision on the road ahead for the company
⦁ Leaders Club Meeting: Company's MD addresses top 100 leaders on strategic approach towards
improving the overall productivity
⦁ The Ground Zero: Business unit heads and the middle management anchors business update emailers
wherein business developments are shared with employees across all grades. Here employees get to
know about the status of company's business, new developments and the way forward for the
organization & the unit level. This is an interactive session and thus employees get a chance to get their
questions answered, if any
⦁ Business Update: A quarterly mailer is sent by the Group CEO on business developments and the
project pipeline
⦁ Sprint: Monthly mailer is sent by the CEO & Managing Director on the overall business environment
within the Company and various SBUs
⦁ Dinner with exceptional performers: The senior management and the leadership team meet
employees with exceptional ratings, in an informal set up giving them an opportunity to interact and
share their views. This happens every 6 months.
Following channels have been established to address employee concerns and enable employee
feedback
⦁ One-on-one connect: This happens after the employee completes 30, 60 and 90 days at KPIT. It is
especially designed for new joiners wherein skip meetings, various discussion forums (Delivery
Manager's forum, Project Manager-Biz HR forum), employee grievance mechanisms, and exit interviews
used as mechanisms to collect feedback and employee pulse
⦁ Buddy program: This helps our new recruits to understand KPIT's value & culture system and helps
them blend faster in the KPIT family
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6.2 Employee Recreation
To maintain vibrancy at workplace, following recreational programs have been identified:
⦁ Various cultural events: These encourage employee participation and showcase their personal interests
and hobbies. We have different interest clubs like the cerebral club, photography club, nature club and
trekking club to name a few, that the employees can join to pursue their area of interest with other
likeminded colleagues
⦁ Resonance: Every year we organize family day in KPIT, wherein all our employees and their family
members are invited for a social get-together followed by dinner. This event also includes in- house
employee performances and employees get to spend quality time with their families, interact and socialize
with their colleagues, senior management and the leadership team. It is organized at Pune, Mumbai,
Bangalore and Noida.
⦁ Under health and safety, following programs are established to promote employee well-being:
⦁ Framework has been created to move away from a week's focus of Health and Wellness to an annual
approach for "Health and Wellness"
⦁ Choice of workouts provided considering the new trends in physical fitness
- Introduction of Zumba
- Introduction Of Yoga
⦁ Health check –ups & diagnostic support to employees and their families
- Subsidized health check-up package offered to employees and their families
- Negotiated discounts on expensive tests for employees and their families
⦁ Health awareness vaccination drives to address health hazards
- H1N1 Vaccination drive for employees and their families
⦁ Initiated hospital tie-ups for discounted OPD check-ups and other tests (addition to diagnostic
centers)
⦁ Awareness communication sent on days recognised by the World Health Organization (WHO)
⦁ Engagement through wellness
- Laughter sessions
- Special pranayama sessions for International Yoga Day
- Tug of war
- Random blood sugar testing on world diabetes day
- Dental check-up camps
- Eye check-up on campus for employees
- Meditation activity conducted as a mark of "healthy mind”
- Balloon blowing activity on the World Heart Day
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6.3 Other Initiatives⦁ Leadership Development Program: LIFT- This is a Leadership development program for young and
high potential leaders within the organization. They are identified and mentored by the senior
leaders in the organization. Various workshops are conducted to groom them for higher/
challenging roles and responsibilities. They are given group assignments to further enhance their
exposure and learnings
⦁ Fun at Work: Various games and fun activities are planned to reduce employee stress levels. These
are planned on the organizational level or department-wise
6.4 Performance Appraisal: A new appraisal management framework has been put in place to formally assess the employees’
performance and to support their development needs. This new system, KPMS, rollout was through
business representatives/champions, the Biz HRs and the corporate HR teams. Necessary training
was imparted to all the newly joined employees and first time supervisors to carry out the
performance assessment effectively. Performance review happens every year for all the eligible
employees. Promotions and career progression is based on merit and competencies of individuals.
Training needs are acknowledged and training calendar is planned accordingly.
6.5 Rewards and Recognition: We honour the best and the brightest of our employees who contribute toward the future growth of
our company. As an organization we nurture unique people practices that foster recognition at both
individual and team level, for which we use a multi-pronged approach. A few of them are given below:
⦁ Cheers! - Through this we recognize individual and team contributions in various areas such as
customer delight, going beyond the call of duty, exceptional contribution at workplace,
coaching and mentoring team members, displaying all round performance, displaying
excellent team work, amongst many others. Every employee is free to nominate peers,
superiors, subordinates and also themselves for these awards as the entire process is very
transparent. Overall 787 employees were awarded under this category in the year 2015-16.
⦁ Celebrating High CSAT - This is a unique program to recognize the team achieving highest
level of customer satisfaction. This motivates employees to equip themselves with required
competencies and stay ahead of the competition. We also have platforms wherein employees
demonstrating excellence in various spheres get to interact with the leadership team members
in an informal set-up. These achievers are praised in company’s newsletters. We also identify
brand ambassadors within the Company who are given visibility at various internal and external
forums.
⦁ Tenure and Long service recognition – The employees are recognized for completing 5,10, 15
and 20 years across locations
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6.6 Employee Competency Development: At KPIT we undertake several initiatives to upskill our employees. Be it the campus recruits or the
experienced hires, we have tailored competency development plan for all the employees who need it.
A few of them include:
⦁ PACE: Program for Academic Collaboration & Engagement (PACE) is a strategic initiative to bridge
the gap between academia & industry needs. As a part of this initiative, KPIT has trained college
students as well as conducted multiple Faculty Development programs. We now have 20 PACE
partner colleges where we go for campus hiring for our four business units.
⦁ Genesis: We ensure that campus hires at KPIT are adequately trained and are made available in time
for project deployment. Genesis program has a robust training and assessment structure and is
completely driven in house by a competent team of educators.
We inducted and trained about 1,000 campus recruits this year which includes both BE and Non-BE
trainees.
⦁ Professional Skills Development: well-structured professional skill development program, built
around 5 core Competencies is available to KPIT employees. We now have a bouquet of 20+
Professional skills development programs that can be offered to employees across the grades.
⦁ Certification Programs for Business Enabling Functions: ACCELERATE initiative ensures
competency development for support functions. Such a program was launched for the first time for
Facilities and Logistic Management team, Global Mobility Management team and will be extended
to other enabling functions
⦁ Account Management Education Program: Organization has absolute focus to grow the GAM
accounts. In line with this business need we have designed an exclusive offering, called ACE
program, for account managers to build account management competencies.
⦁ ECoDe | KAIZEN: The Company believes that for employees to effectively perform their role,
appropriate skills, knowledge and competencies are needed. Thus, we created ECoDE|KAIZEN, a
Certification framework, consisting of Training & Certifications conducted for employees on
permanent roles from A – I grades, across six competencies - Technical, Domain, Process, Project
management, Professional skills and Leadership development. The SBU specific academy
educators work closely with businesses to develop, create and deliver these trainings.
⦁ SBU wise Training Academies: A dedicated team of competent educators and program managers
is aligned to different SBUs to take care of cross skill and up skill training needs of the respective
Business Units. The academies have launched multiple technology, domain certifications for the
employees.
⦁ Use of Technology for Trainings: To meet the learning needs of the workforce spread across the
globe, different training techniques have been adopted. Besides the conventional method of
classroom delivery, WebEx, Telepresence, Movi client are also used frequently as training mediums.
Many eLearning are created and training videos are made available at our internal online video
gallery, KPITube.
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6.7 Labour Practices Strategy and Management Approach:Identifying the right talent and empowering them to face business challenges are essential elements
of sustainable business growth and success. Our people are our strength. We believe that they are
reservoirs of abundant capabilities. At KPIT, we strive to create a vibrant and empowering
environment that inspires employees to perform better in their roles. We believe that happy and
energized employees are most productive and are thus committed to devoting time and attention in
creating environment that fosters mutual trust and bonding.
⦁ Prevention Of Sexual Harassment (POSH) policy: The policy framework aims at educating
employees on any sort of harassment (including sexual harassment) and report about it
appropriately when seen or experienced at the workplace. All the cases are acted upon
immediately and corrective actions are taken. E-learning on POSH has been mandated for all
employees.
⦁ Whistle blower policy: We encourage our employees to report any unethical behaviour
through the whistle blower policy. Employees are informed about this policy during the two day
induction program.
6.8 Employment and compensation:KPIT has a diverse workforce, comprising of skilled talent pool from all religions, nationalities and
educational backgrounds. Our full time employees amount to 91%, while 9% are contractors and
subcontractors. Also, 23% of our employees are women. We select our employees based on merit
and the competencies they possess, and do not discriminate on any grounds. We diligently follow the
underlying principles stated in the "Code of Conduct".
Full-time KPIT employees avail of many welfare benefits. Below are some of those:
⦁ Cashless hospitalization benefits
(as per company guidelines)
⦁ Group Personal Accident Insurance
⦁ Group Term Life Insurance
⦁ ESOPs - to select few
⦁ Leave encashment
⦁ In-house doctors, counsellor, dieticians
⦁ Transportation
⦁ Canteen facilities
⦁ Gymnasium with instructor
⦁ Concierge facilities
⦁ Helpdesk facilities
⦁ Assistance in finding accommodation
⦁ Assistance in paying house deposits
⦁ Stress Management Program
⦁ On premise Music room equipped with
musical instruments
⦁ On premise recreation facilities
⦁ Seminars, financial reimbursement for
external certifications aligned with business
⦁ Maternity leave for adoption
⦁ Paternity leave
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In order to best utilize the internal resources, we have evolved our resourcing function through
several processes and systems that include job rotation, reskilling and career planning etc. This
ensures maximum opportunity to our employees to adapt to newer roles and make advances in
their career as per their interest and performance. Our hiring is done through a number of
sources, depending on the criticality of the requirement. These include:
⦁ iRefer Program
Employee Referral program
Internal Job Postings
⦁ KPIT website hiring
Partner job sites
⦁ Partnership with educational institutions
PACE program
⦁ Media
Social sites like LinkedIn
⦁ Other relevant recruitment channels
The recruitment channel and a balanced mix of laterals versus campus recruits, forms an important
parameter of our recruitment strategy.
6.9 Talent AcquisitionKPIT continues to grow and expand across geographies, supplemented by our focused hiring teams
in India and overseas that manage the Company's talent acquisition strategy. Our hiring involves
recruiting the right talent in line with our core values and key behavioural attributes.
We believe in being an equal opportunity employer and our hiring process, at all levels, is based
strictly on merit. Our hiring teams always look at every resource with an intent of matching them with
a role that fits them well. In case improvements are needed in potential hires, internal training and
development programs are in place.
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Gender Diversity
Female Male77% 23%
Source wise hiring FY 15 - 16
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Agency 13%
Campus 33%
Career Site 1%
Direct 13%
Job Site 15%
Referral 10%
Subcon 16%
Geo wise headcount distribution
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80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
04%
81%
1%
13%
APAC Europe India South America USA
1%
City tier wise trainee hiring
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70
60
50
40
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20
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53%
9%
City Tier1
38%
City Tier2 City Tier3
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The majority of our hiring is through our planned fresher intake program - PACE (Program for
Academic Collaboration and Engagement), where we work with select colleges to attract the right
talent pool. Under the PACE program, we train, develop and equip young graduates with practical
insights & industry exposure via guest lectures, seminars, workshops, industrial visits, faculty
development programs, sponsorship projects and faculty sabbaticals, amongst others. Our SME
& Senior PACE Academicians contribute toward reviewing the course curriculum from time to
time and provide industry ready resources, thus making this program relevant and industry
friendly.
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Future Ahead
As we move forward our focus is now on people development and growth. We have been doing a lot
of investments in developing our people management by bringing in robust training infrastructure,
revamping the performance management system, promotion policies, internal certification and
competency development framework and hiring fresh graduates and senior level leadership people.
We are also making the required technological investments to strengthen our practices and offerings
and they are generating returns as we are achieving global recognitions for the same.
We will continue to focus on our select verticals and strengthen our industry specific offerings with
an aim to be the first port of call for the customers in our focus verticals. We are investing in Account
Management since majority of our growth will come from our strategic enterprise customers. These
account managers are domain experts and with our unique strength of engineering and business IT
we aim to work on larger deals within these customers. We have also invested in Digital Technologies
viz. ICAMS (IOT, Cloud, Analytics, Mobility and Sensors) to capture the spend in this area. Another
area of focus and investment for us is Products & Platforms. We have been investing in this area for
the last couple of years and we believe we should start generating revenues from newer products viz.
Electric Buses and Automated Meter Reading (AMR), this year onwards.
The high growth areas for us in terms of industry verticals will be Automotive, Life Sciences and
Energy & Utilities. In terms of technologies embedded electronics, digital technologies, Application
Lifecycle Management (ALM)/Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and SAP would be the leading
growth areas whereas Products & Platforms will also contribute to growth in a meaningful way.
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Phone: +91 - 20 - 6652 5000 | Fax: +91 - 20 - 6652 5001
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