Corporate Social Responsibility constitutes a Heart of Umang dairies. The vision of Umang Dairy is to be a leading dairy company in the private sector and to remain committed to the advancement of society and the environment through CSR.
Umang Dairies, one of the foremost advocates in the community for wide-ranging development and welfare, contributes to various domains, including education, preventative health care, livelihood interventions, and environmental sustainability. Several Umang dairies’ projects have focused on healthcare, education, livelihood development, and rural development.
Umang Dairies have been active towards the subsisting issues. During the year 2021-22, they have mainly focused on achieving a more empowered society with integrated growth in the Dairy sector. Their main CSR areas included livelihood promotions and women empowerment.
One of the CSR projects conducted by Umang was doubling farmers’ income by establishing a sustainable Dairy value chain. This not only helped farmers in increasing their dairy income but also created a medium for growth in dairy produce, agriculture, and poultry. The main activities constituted under this project were forming and strengthening Farmer Producer Organisations by federating existing Dairy interest groups. Additionally, it included the establishment of input support linkages that helped provide seed, fertilizers, animal feed, and bio-pesticides to the farmers.
This livelihood promotion activity also included training farmers and capacity building on modern practices for dairy farming, agriculture practices, and organic cultivation. This helped farmers and dairy producers to understand contemporary mechanisms and accelerate the produce. The activity also focused on linking existing schemes of Government and non-government bodies for resource maximization. This indirectly led to vast market expansion, thereby increasing sales and maximization of profit.
Another project undertaken by Umang included Increasing Women Contribution to National GDP through promoting Dairy Interest Groups and directly linking them with the dairy value chain. Their more focus included activities for forming and strengthening Dairy Interest Groups.
Distribution of food, drinking water, safety kits for frontline workers of the sanitation and health department are the measures the company has been spending its funds on. The organization also has set up many isolation camps for covid patients in many regions. With the help of NGOs, they have been supporting government officials, police departments, and government hospital workers by providing packed food, drinking water, and safety kits. Their support to the district health department provides ambulance, safety materials, masks, soaps, and hand gloves to sanitary workers in municipal corporations. Their isolation camps are well equipped with curtains, partitions, and isolation beds at primary health care centers. They have helped more than 2000 migrant laborers by providing food, water, sanitisers, masks, and even dry ration.
Their CSR activities are not only restricted to COVID relief but are diversified. Umang dairies have set up two adult literacy centers where 60 women were enrolled. They have also successfully organized one-day training for the bankers in collaboration with NABARD. In his address, Mr.Rohit Srivastava, DDM NABARD, suggested bankers support bank account opening and credit card linkage process of SHGs. Moreover, Umang dairies also have been performing various awareness programs related to government schemes. The CSR of Umang dairies is an appropriate stencil that other organizations must follow to return to the community.
