Tata Chemicals : Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report

Business Responsibility & Sustainability Report

Section A - General Disclosures

1. Details

1.	Corporate Identity Number (CIN) of the Listed Entity	L24239MH1939PLC002893
2.	Name of the Listed Entity	Tata Chemicals Limited
3.	Year of incorporation	1939
4.	Registered office address	Bombay House, 24 Homi Mody Street, Fort, Mumbai - 400 001
5.	Corporate address	Bombay House, 24 Homi Mody Street, Fort, Mumbai - 400 001
6.	E-mail address	[e-mail]
7.	Telephone No.	[phone]
8.	Website	www.tatachemicals.com
9.	Financial year for which reporting is being done	April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023
10.	Name of the Stock Exchange(s) where shares are listed	1. BSE Limited
		2. The National Stock Exchange of India Limited
11.	Paid-up Capital	` 255 crore
12.	Name and contact details (telephone, email address)	Name: Mr. Shivang Mahadevia
	of the person who may be contacted in case of any	E-mail: [e-mail]
	queries on the BRSR report	Contact no: [phone]
13.	Reporting boundary - Are the disclosures under this	Consolidated Basis
	report made on a standalone basis (i.e. only for the
	entity) or on a consolidated basis (i.e. for the entity and
	all the entities which form a part of its consolidated
	financial statements, taken together)

1. Products / Services
   14. Details of business activities (accounting for 90% of the turnover)

S. No.

Description of Main Activity

Description of Business Activity

% of Turnover of the entity

1.	Basic Chemistry Products	Manufacturing, Distribution,	81%
2.	Specialty Products	Sales & Marketing	19%

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15. Products/Services sold by the entity (accounting for 90% of the entity's Turnover)

S. No.

Product/Service

NIC Code (Group)

% of total Turnover contributed

1.	Soda Ash	201	57%
2.	Crop Protection	202	14%
3.	Salt	107	12%
4.	Bicarb	201	5%
5.	Seeds	016	2%
6.	Others	107 & 201	10%

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III. Operations

16. Number of locations where plants and/or operations / offices of the entity are situated

Location

Number of Plants

Number of Offices

Total

	National	10	20	30
	International	5	5	10
17. Markets served by the entity
a. Number of locations
		Locations		Number
		National (No. of States)		30
		International (No. of Countries)		99

1. What is the contribution of exports as a percentage of the total turnover of the entity? 25%
2. A brief on types of customers
   The Company serves manufacturers of Glass (Flat, Container, Solar etc.), Soaps & Detergents, Chemicals (Sodium Silicate, Lithium Carbonate, Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Percarbonate, Sodium Dichromate etc.), Food & Beverages, Animal Feed, Pharmaceuticals, Automotive Tyres, EV Battery Materials, Farmers etc., both directly as well as through distributors.

IV. Employees

18. Details as at the end of Financial Year:

a. Employees and workers (including differently abled):

S. No.	Particulars		Total	Male	Female
	(A)	No. (B)	% (B / A)	No. (C)	% (C / A)
		EMPLOYEES
1.	Permanent (D)	3,769	3,478	92%	291	8%
2.	Other than Permanent (E)	559	447	80%	112	20%
3.	Total employees (D) + (E)	4,328	3,925	91%	403	9%
			WORKERS
4.	Permanent (F)	853	829	97%	24	3%
5.	Other than Permanent (G)	9,772	9,202	94%	570	6%
6.	Total workers (F) + (G)	10,625	10,031	94%	594	6%

1. Differently abled Employees

S. No.	Particulars		Total		Male	Female
	(A)		No. (B)	% (B / A)	No. (C)	% (C / A)
		DIFFERENTLY ABLED EMPLOYEES
1.	Permanent (D)			19	15	79%	4	21%
2.	Other than Permanent (E)			1	1	100%	0	0%
3.	Total differently abled employees (D) + (E)	20	16	80%	4	20%
		DIFFERENTLY ABLED WORKERS
4.	Permanent (F)			1	1	100%	0	0%
5.	Other than Permanent (G)			22	22	100%	0	0%
6.	Total differently abled workers (F) + (G)	23	23	100%	0	0%

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19. Participation/Inclusion/Representation of women
			TOTAL		No. and percentage of Females
			(A)		No. (B)	% (B/A)
	Board of Directors	9	2	22%
	Key Management Personnel*	2	0	0

*excludes Managing Director & CEO (MD & CEO) and Executive Director (ED)

20. Turnover rate for permanent employees and workers
			FY 2022-23			FY 2021-22			FY 2020-21
		Male		Female		Total	Male		Female		Total	Male		Female		Total
	Permanent Employees	16%	17%		17%	15%	12%		16%	10%	7%		10%
	Permanent Workers	10%	17%		15%	17%	14%		17%	15%	22%		15%

1. Holding, Subsidiary and Associate Companies (including joint ventures)
   21. Names of holding / subsidiary / associate companies / joint ventures

Sr.

No.

Name of the holding / subsidiary /

associate companies/ joint ventures (A)

Indicate whether

holding /

Subsidiary /

Associate /

Joint Venture

• of shares held by

listed entity

Does the entity indicated at column A, participate in the Business Responsibility initiatives of the listed entity?

(Yes/No)

1	Rallis India Limited	Subsidiary	50.06	Yes
2	Ncourage Social Enterprise Foundation	Subsidiary	100	Yes
3	Tata Chemicals International Pte. Ltd (TCIPL)	Subsidiary	100	Yes
4	Homefield Pvt. UK Limited	Subsidiary	100	Yes
5	TC Africa Holdings Limited	Subsidiary	100	Yes
6	Tata Chemicals South Africa (Pty) Limited	Subsidiary	100	Yes
7	Tata Chemicals Magadi Limited	Subsidiary	100	Yes
8	Magadi Railway Company Limited	Subsidiary	100	Yes
9	TCE Group Limited	Subsidiary	100	Yes
10	Natrium Holdings Limited	Subsidiary	100	Yes
11	Cheshire Salt Holdings Limited	Subsidiary	100	Yes
12	Cheshire Salt Limited	Subsidiary	100	Yes
13	British Salt Limited	Subsidiary	100	Yes
14	Brinefield Storage Limited	Subsidiary	100	Yes
15	Cheshire Cavity Storage 2 Limited	Subsidiary	100	Yes
16	New Cheshire Salt Works Limited (NCSWL)	Subsidiary	100	Yes
17	Brunner Mond Group Limited	Subsidiary	100	Yes
18	Tata Chemicals Europe Limited	Subsidiary	100	Yes
19	Winnington CHP Limited	Subsidiary	100	Yes
20	Northwich Resource Management Limited	Subsidiary	100	Yes
21	Gusiute Holdings (UK) Limited	Subsidiary	100	Yes
22	Valley Holdings Inc	Subsidiary	100	Yes
23	Tata Chemicals North America Inc.	Subsidiary	100	Yes
24	TC (Soda Ash) Partners Holdings	Subsidiary	100	Yes
25	TCSAP LLC	Subsidiary	100	Yes
26	Tata Chemicals (Soda Ash) Partners (TCSAP)	Subsidiary	100	Yes
27	Alcad*	Subsidiary	50	Yes
28	Indo Maroc Phosphore S.A.	Joint Venture	33.33	Yes
29	The Block Salt Company Limited**	Joint Venture	50	Yes
30	Tata Industries Limited	Joint Venture	9.13	No
31	JOil (S) Pte. Ltd.#	Associate	17.07	No

Note: the above details are as on March 31, 2023 *TCSAP is holding 50% in Alcad

**NCSWL is holding 50%

#TCIPL is holding 17.07%

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VI. CSR Details

22.	i.	Whether CSR is applicable as per section 135 of Companies Act, 2013:	Yes
	ii.	Turnover (Consolidated revenue from operations) (in `)	` 16,789 crore
	iii.	Net worth (Consolidated) (in `)	` 20,642 crore

VII. Transparency and Disclosures Compliances

23. Complaints/Grievances on any of the principles (Principles 1 to 9) under the National Guidelines on Responsible Business Conduct:

Stakeholder group from whom complaint is received

Grievance Redressal

Mechanism in Place

(Yes/No)

(If Yes, then provide web-link for grievance redress policy)

	FY 2022-23			FY 2021-22
Number of	Number of	Remarks	Number of	Number of	Remarks
complaints	complaints		complaints	complaints
filed during	pending		filed during	pending
the year	resolution		the year	resolution
	at close of			at close of
	the year			the year

Communities	Yes, a mechanism is in place	2	0	Nil	3	2	2 pending
	to interact with community						complaints
	leaders to understand and						closed
	address their concerns, if any						subsequently
Investors	Yes, a mechanism is in place	0	0	Nil	0	0	Nil
(other than	wherein certain Company
shareholders)	representatives and advisors
	have been identified to
	understand and address their
	concerns, if any
Shareholders	Yes, Shareholder can register	0	0	Nil	0	0	Nil
	their grievances at https://
	scores.gov.in/scores/Welcome.
	html and also web links of
	BSE (http://tiny.cc/m1l2vz)
	and NSE (http://tiny.cc/s1l2vz)
	for Arbitration
Employees		16	0	Nil	12	0	Nil
and workers
Customers	https://www.tatachemicals.	6	0	Nil	4	1	1 pending
						complaint
	com/WhistleblowerPolicy.htm
						closed
	Ethics Helpline
						subsequently
	(https://secure.integritymatters.
Value	12	0	Nil	8	1	1 pending
in)
Chain Partners							complaint
							closed
							subsequently
Other (Social	Yes	15	1	1 pending	0	0	Nil
worker, Ex				complaint
employee				is under
etc.)				review

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24. Overview of the entity's material responsible business conduct issues

Please indicate material responsible business conduct and sustainability issues pertaining to environmental and social matters that present a risk or an opportunity to your business, rationale for identifying the same, approach to adapt or mitigate the risk along with its financial implications, as per the following format:

S. No.

Material issue identified

Indicate whether risk or opportunity (R/O)

Rationale for identifying

the risk / opportunity

In case of risk, approach

to adapt or mitigate

Financial implications

of the risk or

opportunity (Indicate positive or negative implications)

1	Health & Safety	Risk	In chemical industry,	Health & Safety	Negative
			Health & Safety can	Management Plan,
			directly impact people	Process Safety & Risk
			and community and	Management, Emergency
			disrupt the operations	Mitigation System etc.

2	Business Ethics	Risk	This may impact
			the brand and trust
			of stakeholders

Tata Code of Conduct,	Negative
Monitoring Mechanism
to ensure Ethical Conduct

3	Employee Development	Opportunity	This may	Learning and	Positive
			improve employee	development
			competence, skills and	opportunities for various
			knowledge which is key	level of employees
			for organisational growth
4	Regulatory Issues and Compliance	Risk	Non-compliance may	Adherence to compliance	Negative
			impact the brand image	monitoring system
			and customer trust
			and engagement
5	Energy Efficiency	Opportunity	This may minimise the	Energy saving	Positive
			greenhouse gas (GHG)	assessments, key
			emissions, improve	initiatives to optimise
			resource efficiency,	energy efficiency. Focus
			cost saving, cleaner	on renewable source of
			environment etc.	energy etc.
6	Water Stewardship	Opportunity	This may help in	Focus on minimising	Positive
			sustainable water	consumptions, effluent
			balance, improve	generation and reuse of
			availability of water,	treated effluent. Water
			becoming water neutral	harvesting projects inside
			/ positive	/ outside the premises
7	Reducing Carbon Footprint	Opportunity	Mitigates the effects of	Focus on renewable	Positive
			global climate change,	sources of energy, energy
			improves energy	efficient equipment,
			efficiency, improves	Carbon Capture, etc.
			climate change impacts

For more details, please refer page no. 44 of the Integrated Report 2022-23.

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