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Sustainability is an exercise in both social and environmental well-being. At Shahi, we are dedicated to doing more good for people, the environment, and the economy through our business and supply chain.

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Good Business Lab

Good Business Lab (GBL) is a labor innovation organization focused on using rigorous research to build the business case for worker wellbeing. GBL and Shahi have collaborated on various projects across four focus areas of a worker's employment journey.

  • Building Holistic Health –  Addressing physical and mental health challenges to enable workers to thrive
  • Closing the Skill Gap – Training workers and managers in the skills they need to progress in their careers
  • Improving the Work Environment – Designing a safe and supportive workplace to improve the work experience
  • Unlocking Female Labor – Improving the engagement and retention of women in the paid workforce

GBL was incubated by Shahi in 2017 and continues to be a key implementation partner. As an independent non-profit, GBL works with organizations across multiple sectors, including retail, food, and auto manufacturing, and has offices in India, the USA, and Colombia.

Find out more about the Good Business Lab
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Environmental Sustainability

At Shahi, we believe in responsible business growth by integrating environmental sustainability into the heart of our operations, at all stages of production. We improve our environmental performance through resource conservation and pollution prevention, so that we consistently achieve and operate at a higher resource efficiency.

Our vision is to be the most sustainable supplier of textiles and apparels for our customers.

Our strategy is focused on:

Higg Index

In 2021, Shahi’s Higg FEM verified assessment score was 75.8, 4% higher than our 2020 average and 32% higher than the global average. 

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Watch the P.A.C.E. journey of our employee Sujatha in this short film from Gap.

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P.A.C.E.

Personal Advancement & Career Enhancement

P.A.C.E is GAP Inc.’s proprietary holistic life-skills training program for Female Garment Workers. The garment industry employs a majority female workforce. These women often lack access to formal education and training to progress personally and professionally. P.A.C.E. has been designed to allow them to unlock their true potential and fulfil their dreams. Shahi was the first organization to run P.A.C.E. in its factories and has extended capsule versions of this program to key influencers in P.A.C.E. participants’ lives, including their male co-workers, supervisors and family members. Since launching in 2007, the program has expanded beyond factories to include women and girls in community settings.

  • Inception: 2007
  • Modules: Communication, problem solving & decision making, time & stress management, execution excellence, health, water, sanitation & hygiene, financial literacy, social entitlement
  • 74,000+ women trained
  • Train 90,000 workers under P.A.C.E by 2024
Awards

Awarded Gap Inc. P.A.C.E. Advocacy Champion Award in 2021 for amplifying our voice through media and news coverages, creating visibility and advocacy for Gap Inc. P.A.C.E. program

Social Impact:

  • Increased confidence and self-esteem
  • Stronger communication skills
  • Greater financial awareness and goal setting
  • Likely to get promoted up to three times quicker
  • More likely to save for their children’s education
  • More likely to take advantage of state-sponsored pension and health schemes
  • More likely to enroll in further skill development courses

Business Impact:

With the Good Business Lab, we studied the business impact of P.A.C.E. and found a positive return on investment, which has created a powerful business case for extending the program to every worker.

  • P.A.C.E. beneficiaries are 20% more productive than those who have not participated in the program
  • P.A.C.E. creates a 258% net rate of return for Shahi, eight months after the program through improved attendance, retention, and efficiency
Find out more about the P.A.C.E. study
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STITCH

Supervisors’ Transformation into Change Holders

STITCH is a soft-skills training program for line-level supervisors designed by Shahi in collaboration with Options and Solutions and Good Business Lab. Through modules such as problem solving, gender sensitivity, stress management, team management, amongst others, the objective of the program is to reduce harassment and improve line productivity.

  • 41% supervisors trained
  • 6-month training
  • 24 modules
  • 45 factories
  • Trained close to 1,400 supervisors and enrolled more than 50 percent of supervisors in STITCH since 2017.
  • 100% of supervisors will be covered by 2024
  • GBL’s research shows that STITCH enhances supervisors’ stock of soft skills, reduces turnover, and increases the workers’ productivity in their lines, thus raising incomes and the probability of receiving incentive bonuses. Know more about STITCH
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Skill Development

Since 2013, Shahi has been establishing training centers across the country to skill and increase the employability of rural populations, with a focus on increasing female labor force participation.
We have established partnerships with companies like Tata Steel Foundation and Spark Minda and have set- up centers under government schemes such as Scheme for Capacity Building in Textile Sector (SAMARTH) and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDUGKY).

  • 80+ centers across India
  • 44,000+ women trained since 2013
  • Goal: Train 65,000 women by FY 2024

Awards

2022

Maximum Female employment award by the Ministry of Rural Development under DDUGKY

2019

Best performing Project Implementing Agency by Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotion Society (JSLPS)

2019

Best Performing Employer Award by Odisha Rural Development and Marketing Society (ORMAS)

2019

National Award for ‘Best Performing Employer’ under DDUGKY by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India

2018

Best Employer Award in the Apparel Sector by Odisha Rural Development and Marketing Society (ORMAS)

2018

National Award for ‘Best Employer’ by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India

2018

MoU signed with MoRD as “Champion Employer” with a target to train 5000 within 2 years

2017-2019

Best Performing Training Partner” (Category B) under DDUGKY by the Ministry of Rural Development of India (2017, 2018 & 2019)

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Human Rights

Our ambition as company is to have a positive impact on human rights through job creation and advancement, especially for low-income women, and through development of communities where we operate. However, as a company with a workforce of over 100,000 people, we are aware that to ensure the security of human rights, we must put in place rigorous prevention and remediation systems.

Shahi Employee Handbook

Understanding that many of our workers had never been formally employed before, we have created an illustrated employee handbook in four local languages, which provides simple information for employees to easily understand their rights, responsibilities and benefits at the workplace.• Understanding that many of our workers had never been formally employed before, we have created an illustrated employee handbook in four local languages, which provides simple information for employees to easily understand their rights, responsibilities and benefits at the workplace. Topics included in the handbook include

  • Health and Safety
  • Code of Conduct
  • Pay and Benefits
  • Facilities and Support services
  • Committees and Suggestion boxes
  • Grievance redressal mechanisms
  • Leave and Holidays
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Grievance Redressal Mechanisms

Several grievance redressal mechanisms are made available to workers to voice their concerns and complaints, such as worker-management committees, suggestion boxes, and helplines. However, we realize that with a growing workforce of over 100,000, we need to innovate and create more accessible and effective channels for workers to communicate with factory and company management. Therefore, we created ‘Inache’, a tool that enables workers to share their suggestions, questions, and grievances with management via SMS or voice messages. Inache is already running 30+ Shahi factories and our goal is to scale it to 100% of our factories by 2024.

Training and Awareness

Shahi has several worker-management committees to discuss various topics from grievances to the working environment. In addition, to ensure the effective functioning of worker-management committees, a holistic training has been designed for committee members on topics such as communication skills and Shahi’s HR policies. We have a robust Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) policy and committee, and conduct regular awareness sessions for workers, supervisors, and middle management on sexual harassment, its prevention, and redressal mechanisms.

CSR

CSR Committee

  • J. D. Giri, Director (Chairperson)
  • Anant Ahuja, Head, Organizational Development
  • Vinod Kumar Yadav, President, Corporate Affairs
  • Anand Padmanabhan, President, Corporate Affairs
Our CSR Policy 2022-23
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Corporate Social Responsibility

The intent to invest in the development of communities and protection of the environment has been intrinsically woven into the corporate ethos of Shahi since its inception. Over the years, we have been consciously developing our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives which are guided by the following core commitments:

  • To contribute to social, economic, and environmental development initiatives in the communities in which we operate and the society at large.
  • To ensure all CSR initiatives undertaken by us have a long-term sustainable and positive impact on marginalized populations.

Our initiatives are based on needs assessment, and consultation with communities and local governments.

Our focus areas and key initiatives:

  • Enhancing Education: Efforts to improve access, delivery, and quality of education. Our goal is to provide access to STEM labs to 2,000 children by 2025.
  • Public Health: Investments in infrastructure development, preventive care, and capacity building. We aim to extend maternal, menstrual, and reproductive health services to 42,000 women by 2025.
  • Environmental Management: Resource conservation, management, and enhancement. Our target is to plant 21,000 trees in Delhi NCR by 2025.
  • Community Management: Support to communities in need, such as migrant workers. We aim to support 10,000 migrant workers by expanding our migration support center by 2025.

We implement our initiatives on our own and also partner with expert organizations, specialized non-government organizations, and local implementation agencies.

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