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Management and Ownership India Board of Directors Managing Director: Mr.Shantanu Khosla Chairman: Mr.B.S. Mehta Directors: Mr.G.C.Das Mr.C.R.Dua Mr. Anil Kumar Gupta Mr. Pramod Agarwal Ms. Sonali Dhawan Deputy Company Secretary & Compliance Officer: Ms. Jessica Rastogi the P&G facilities. Every year, thousands of P&G employees worldwide personally commit to help children and youth. Corporate Social Responsibility Shiksha: Padhega India, Badhega India! P&G’s flagship Corporate Social Responsibility Program Shiksha is an integral part of global philanthropy program - Live, Learn & Thrive. Now in its 8th year, Shiksha has till date helped 280,000 underprivileged children access their right to education. The program has built & supported over 140 schools across India, in partnership with NGOs like Round Table India (RTI), Save the Children (STC), Army Wives Welfare Association (AWWA) and Navy Wives Welfare Association (NWWA), amongst others. Shiksha began with P&G India’s research which revealed education as the one cause that consumers are most concerned about and are looking for a simple way to contribute to. Shiksha was launched in 2005 to enable 42 consumers to contribute towards the cause of education of under-privileged children through simple brand choices. Since its inception, Shiksha has made a cumulative donation of over INR 22 crores towards helping children on the path to better education. Disaster Relief India has braved several natural disasters in the recent past, like Tsunami, floods and earthquakes.P&G has stepped forward in each of these calamities and helped communities get back on their feet. Most recently the company has helped rebuild the Army School in Ladakh, located in one of the most challenging Himalayan Terrains, which was wrecked by the Flash Floods in 2010. Shiksha came to the aid of the Ladakh Scouts Children’s School, by supporting the education of children orphaned by the tragedy and helping reinstate essential infrastructure. Parivartan - The Whisper School Program P&G’s Parivartan program has been protecting millions of adolescent girls in India from getting trapped in traditional practices of using unhygienic cloth for sanitary protection, by providing timely menstrual education. The program has been improving the lives of over 2 Million girls annually across 15,000 schools in India. The objective of the program is to help adolescent girls embrace womanhood positively and enable them to adopt the right feminine hygiene practices to stay healthy and stay in school. Parivartan ensures that adolescent girls do not miss school on account of periods and initiates a series of cascading effects leading to a more equal gender status in the state. [email protected]