Mindset change(s) has to begin at the management education stage.

Organizations like Infosys, Citigroup, Walmart etc, are known to release ESG reports. In the past, business schools have often served as a guide as to how these reports might be written. For example; Harvard Business School has written a series of critical working papers on how the ESG reports of corporates tend to selectively present only those non-financial metrics favorable to them.

India’s Universal Business School has become a role model for other management institutions by releasing its own ESG report.

Chairman, Mr Tarun Anand's message on this -

1. While the impacts of COVID-19 have been far-reaching, they have not diverted attention from other pressing challenges and risks. Concern over climate change continued to grow, with changing social, economical and environmental dimensions, we need to stand firm in mitigating the harmful impacts of climate changes by our sustainable actions that include active participation in tree plantations, sustainable use of energy and other resources.

2. Similarly, we remained committed to the success and wellbeing of our workforce. We want all our employees to progress and we continually strive to prioritize a work environment where individuals can grow and enjoy a high degree of job satisfaction.

3. Our dedication to improving the quality of life in our local communities continued through supporting programs, events, and charitable causes in education, the environment, and culture.

4. Finally, we continued to demonstrate transparency, accountability and integrity throughout our practices and operations.

5. On behalf of the Board of Directors, I am delighted to introduce our first ever Sustainability Report. Our commitment to sustainable practice remains as strong as ever, irrespective of the circumstances.

• Renewable Energy 70 % of the total energy comes from our solar park and roof-top systems.

• Habitats 16 acres of green zone habitat to various flora and fauna i.e.frog species, snakes, birds like humming birds, wood peckers, butterflies.

• Green Campus 16 acres of dedicated green zone with 7500 plant species.

• Water harvesting 3 dedicated water harvesting ponds on 2 acres of land.

• Clean energy Electric vehicle, BLDC efficient technology fans.

• Women empowerment 50 local tribal women in our work force.

• Social empowerment. 550 tribal community members are included and empowered in our inclusion and diversity project.

• Livelihood development 314 local tribal farmers empowered through capacity building.

• Health and hygiene 500 local tribal children educated on health and hygiene activities.

Women empowerment, child development and social activities

❖ About 50 local tribal women have been provided jobs inside the campus.

❖ As part of our social responsibility our PANNAH project has empowered more than 350 farmers and their annual income has increased from 2k to 4k due to our various interventions.

❖ During floods we have provided daily utility items to more than 100 families.

❖ We have provided full salary to all our housekeeping, ground staff and faculty members with out any fail.

❖ All our working force in infrastructure are sourced locally.

❖ We have partnered with ENACTUS and through this initiative we have provided eye glasses to more than 500 old people suffering from blindness.

❖ Our students have trained more than 500 local tribal children in various health and hygiene activities in collaboration with local NGO.

❖ During covid pandemic we have provided food and other items to more than 100 families.

❖ Concrete road has been built that connects various villages to the main road.

❖ All our basic infrastructure material is procured from the local vendors to provide them livelihoods.

✓ We have equal representation of women and men in our board.

✓ We have 50:50 ratio of faculty members (Male-Female)

✓ We have dedicated student’s handbook with all required and necessary instruction for students’ overall conduct.

✓ We have dedicated faculty handbook with all required and necessary instruction for students’ overall conduct.

✓ We have dedicated anti-ragging committee headed by senior professor with equal representation of male and female faculty members.

✓ We have sexual harassment committee headed by a senior female professor with equal representation of male and female members.

✓ We have posters and banners placed all across the campus on anti- ragging and sexual harassment.

✓ We have various cultural and environment clubs for students.

✓ We have class representatives, class coordinators for each UG and PG programmes to voice their concerns.

✓ We conduct town hall faculty meeting every three months to felicitate the top performers.

✓ We believe in equality, transparency, innovation and accountability, for this we follow bottom-up approach, that provides voice to each stakeholder right from the bottom.