Corporate Governance
Corporate governance is about maximizing shareholder value legally, ethically and on a sustainable basis, while ensuring fairness to every stakeholder - our customers, employees, investors, vendor-partners, the governments of the countries in which we operate, and the community. Thus, corporate governance is a reflection of our culture, policies, our relationship with stakeholders and our commitment to values.
We believe that sound corporate governance is critical to enhance and retain investor trust. Accordingly, we always seek to ensure that we attain our performance rules with integrity.
Our Board exercises its fiduciary responsibilities in the widest sense of the term. Our disclosures always seek to attain the best practices in international corporate governance. We also endeavor to enhance long-term shareholder value and respect minority rights in all our business decisions.
We continue to be a pioneer in benchmarking our corporate governance policies with the best in the world. Our efforts are widely recognized by investors in India and abroad. We have undergone the corporate governance audit by ICRA and CRISIL. ICRA has rated our corporate governance practices at CGR 1. CRISIL has assigned CRISIL GVC Level 1 rating to us.
We have complied with the recommendations of the Narayana Murthy Committee on Corporate Governance constituted by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
Corporate Governance Philosophy
Our corporate governance philosophy is based on the following principles:
- Satisfy the spirit of the law and not just the letter of the law
- Corporate governance standards should go beyond the law
- Be transparent and maintain a high degree of disclosure levels
- When in doubt, disclose
- Make a clear distinction between personal conveniences and corporate resources
- Communicate externally, in a truthful manner, about how the Company is run internally
- Comply with the laws in all the countries in which the Company operates
- Have a simple and transparent corporate structure driven solely by business needs
- Management is the trustee of the shareholders' capital and not the owner
Board composition
At the core of our corporate governance practice is the Board, which oversees how the management serves and protects the long-term interests of all our stakeholders. We believe that an active, well-informed and independent Board is necessary to ensure the highest standards of corporate governance. The majority of the Board, eight out of 15, are independent members.
Further, we have audit, compensation, investor grievance, nominations and risk management committees, which comprise independent directors.
As a part of our commitment to follow global best practices, we comply with the Euroshareholders Corporate Governance Guidelines 2000, and the recommendations of the Conference Board Commission on Public Trusts and Private Enterprises in the U.S. We also adhere to the UN Global Compact Program.
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