Cholamandalam Financial Holdings LtdNSE: CHOLAHLDNG

Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report 2023-2024

· Issued by Cholamandalam Financial Holdings Ltd

Cholamandalam Financial Holdings LimitedAnnual Report 2023-24

III. Operations

18. Number of locations where plants and/or operations/offices

of the entity are situated:

Locations

Number of Plants*

Number of offices

Total

National

NA

1,539

1,539

International

NA

Nil

Nil

  • The group is not engaged in manufacturing activities, hence this criterion is not applicable.

19. Markets served by the entity:

a. Number of locations

Locations

Number

National (No. of States)

Lending Business: 26 States / 6 Union Territories

Insurance Business: 25 States

International (No. of Countries)

Nil

  1. What is the contribution of exports as a percentage of the total turnover of the entity?

Nil. The group provides financial services to the Indian market.

  1. A brief on types of customers
    Lending Business: The company focusses on retail borrowers including First time Borrowers (FTB) and New to Credit Customers (NTCC) ensuring financial inclusion. Following are the types of customers based on the products:
    1. Vehicle Financing: Transport entrepreneurs, FTB and NTCC predominantly in geographies with limited presence of banks and other organized financiers.
    2. Loan against Property: Small business entrepreneurs against the collateral of self-occupied residential property.
    3. Affordable Housing: Underserved customers in Tier III, IV, V, and VI cities to enable them to achieve their dream of owning a home. It also serves customers from unorganized segments who receive their salaries in cash and women borrowers.
    4. Secured Business and Personal Loans (SBPL): Under-servedself-employednon-professional customers (eg, grocery shop, dairy owners, unskilled laborers, low salaried/cash salaried workers).
    5. SME Loans: Funding to Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) customers through various products like Term Loan against property as collateral, Equipment Finance as against machinery as collateral, and supply chain finance for purchase & sales of inventory to their customers. This supports SME customers for their working capital needs. The company has also forayed into leasing thereby enhancing the loan offerings to the borrowers as per their requirements.
    6. Consumer and Small Enterprises Loans (CSEL): Unsecured lending to retail customers including NTCC through partnership business to support lower-income segment people, salaried, self employed and proprietorships/partnerships etc.,

General Insurance Business:

Provides wide range of products and services to both commercial and retail customers. The customer base includes corporates, small, micro, medium enterprises and individuals. The vehicle insurance business provides insurance coverage for two wheelers, four wheelers, commercial vehicles and tractors. The property and casualty insurance business comprises the marine, fire, engineering, commercial, SME and bancassurance verticals. The business also provides health, accident and travel insurance.

IV. Employees

20. Details as at March 31, 2024:

  1. Employees and workers (including differently abled):

SN.

Particulars

Total (A)

Male

Female

No. (B)

% (B/A)

No. (C)

% (C/A)

EMPLOYEES

1.

Permanent (D)

39,734

38,533

97%

1,201

3%

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SN.

Particulars

Total (A)

Male

Female

No. (B)

% (B/A)

No. (C)

% (C/A)

EMPLOYEES

2.

Other than Permanent (E)

13

11

85%

2

15%

3.

Total employees (D + E)

39,747

38,544

97%

1,203

3%

WORKERS

4. Permanent (F)

5.

Other than Permanent (G)

Nil

6. Total workers (F + G)

b. Differently abled Employees and workers:

SN.

Particulars

Total (A)

Male

Female

No. (B)

% (B/A)

No. (C)

% (C/A)

DIFFERENTLY ABLED EMPLOYEES

1.

Permanent (D)

21

20

95%

1

5%

2.

Other than permanent (E)

-

-

-

-

-

3.

Differently Abled employees

21

20

95%

1

5%

(D + E)

DIFFERENTLY ABLED WORKERS

4. Permanent (F)

5.

Other than Permanent (G)

Nil

6. Total workers (F + G)

21. Participation/Inclusion/Representation of women as on March 31, 2024:

Particulars

Total (A)

No. and percentage of Females

No. (B)

% (B/A)

Board of Directors

6

1

16.7%

Key Management Personnel

2

1

50%

22. Turnover rate for permanent employees and workers as on March 31, 2024:

Particulars

FY 24

FY 23

FY 22

Male

Female

Total

Male

Female

Total

Male

Female

Total

Permanent Employees

33%

24%

32%

19%

19%

19%

16%

22%

16%

Permanent Workers

NA

NA

NA

  1. Holding, Subsidiary and Associate Companies (including joint ventures)
    23. Names of holding/subsidiary/associate companies/joint ventures:

Indicate whether

Does the entity indicated

Name of the holding/subsidiary/

Holding/

% of shares

at column A, participate in

SN.

associate companies/

Subsidiary/

held by

the Business Responsibility

joint ventures (A)

Associate/Joint

listed entity

initiatives of the listed

Venture

entity? (Yes/No)

1.

Cholamandalam

Investment and

Associate*

44.39 %

Yes

Finance Company Limited ('CIFCL')

2.

Cholamandalam

MS

General

Subsidiary

60.00%

Yes

Insurance ('CMSGICL')

3.

Cholamandalam

MS Risk

Services

Joint Venture

49.99%

No

Limited ('CMSRSL')

* Treated as a subsidiary under Ind-AS for consolidation purposes

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