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ITO Limited . Report and Accounts 2012
ITC's Sustainability Initiatives : Scale and Impact
IC s Choupals have empowered over 4 million farmers in 40,000 villages.
*ITO's Social and Farm Forestry Programme has created over 56 million person days of
employment and has greened over 125,000 hectares.
* ITO's Watershed Development Programme covers nearly 90,000 hectares of moisture
stressed areas
IO's Livestock Development Programme has reached out to over 300,000 milch animals.
IO's Women's Empowerment Programme has benefitted nearly 40,000 rural women.
ITO's Supplementary Education Programme has covered nearly 270,000 children.
Review Statement by Ernst & Young
We have carried out an independent review of the section 'Sustainability Updates' * of the
ITO Annual Report and Accounts 2012 prepared by ITC Limited (the 'Company ). The scope
of our work was limited to providing independent assurance to select information pertaining
to Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) and social performance of the Company during the
period ist April 201 1 to dist March 2012, based on relevant review at nine representative
business units of the Company and the corporate office at Kolkata.
The Company has presented, in a fairly balanced, accurate, complete and transparent
manner, the Information pertaining to EHS and social parameters on the GRI indicators
pertaining to material consumption, energy, water consumption and discharge, CHO
emissions, wastes, safely performance and social programmes.
The initiatives on carbon sequestration, waste recycling, creating rainwater harvesting
potential and creating sustainable livelihoods, demonstrate the Company's commitment
on these key sustainability issues. The Company has continued to maintain its carbon
positive, water positive and solid waste recycling positive status. The Company's carbon
positive status is based on improvements in specific energy consumption, Increasing share
of energy from renewable resources and sequestration of CO, emissions through social and
farm forestry Initiatives. The water-positive status is based on reduction of specific water
consumption and creation of the rainwater harvesting structures with an evaluated rainwater
harvesting potential. Solid waste recycling positive status of the Company is by recycling of
wastes generated out of their operations and external wastes used as raw material.
For Ernst & Young Private Limited
Sudipta Das
Partner
30 May, 2012
Kolkata
The EMS and social information contained in this section will form a part of ITO's
Sustainability Report 2012, which is being independently assured by Emet & Young.
Source: https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/docs/rnbx0223

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