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63 India’s Leading BFSI and FinTech Companies 2021 Experts’ Views women professionals. Similarly, we also encourage local hiring in a big way. With +5000 branches across India, we are able to offer abundant employment opportunities to competent & qualified professionals belonging to local towns, cities across urban, semi-urban and rural areas of India. Today, at The Muthoot Group, we have a +40,000 strong dedicated and diversified workforce. You have also been actively involved in the company’s CSR initiatives. Tell us about some achievements in this regard. With respect to our CSR initiatives, I have had the opportunity to reach out and support a number of old-age homes and homes for the differently- abled, elderly widows, mentally and physically-challenged by providing material and financial aid, both in personal & professional capacity. During the nationwide lockdown, the Group provided food for 32 lakh migrant workers and underprivileged people. It also supported NGOs by distributing essential packaged products to more than 26 lakh people. Furthermore, we have also provided COVID-19 safety materials to more than 2.7 lakh people. In addition to CSR, one more thing that I have strongly encouraged is ISR – Individual Social Responsibility. I have consciously encouraged all our 40,000+ employees to contribute something personally and in individual capacity - be it blood donation, giving away warm clothes during winters, feeding people on festivals or family occasions like birthdays etc, supporting education of underprivileged children, so on and so forth. As a large corporate family, we all believe that giving back to the society is critical for nation building and we do take conscious steps in that direction. Dun & Bradstreet