Cairn India Wins Blue Dart 24th February 2012

CAIRN INDIA WINS BLUE DART GLOBAL CSR AWARDS 2012 Cairn India, country's leading upstream oil and gas company, won the Blue Dart Global CSR Award for ‘Best Corporate Social Responsibility Practice Overall’ Overall on 18th February 2012.

2012 The Hon Hon’ble ble Union Minister of Corporate Affairs, Affairs Dr Dr. M M. Veerappa Moily presented the global CSR awards, which was part of the 1st World CSR Day. With the theme of CSR – A Way forward & Public- Private Partnership for a Greener Planet, the Global CSR Awards recognized the organisations that have made a significant and positive impact on the lives of people around them. The Global CSR award aims at assessing i th the extent t t off integration i t ti off CSR concerns with ith corporate t functioning; f ti i responsiveness i to t the th needs d off different diff t stakeholders t k h ld and d development of innovative models to fulfil social responsibilities.

Cairn India, dedicated to the highest standards of Corporate Social Responsibility, bagged the award for its sustained contribution in India towards community development initiatives across its operations in Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat, that has impacted lives of thousands of people. Some of the successful community programmes of Cairn India includes the Cairn Enterprise Centre, Cairn India Dairy Development programme, Room to Read (Library Programme), Science on Wheel, Theatre in Education, Mobile Health Vans, General Health Awareness Camps, Micro Vendor Programme, etc.

Cairn India, India that contributes for more than 20% of India's India s domestic production production, works with a structured CSR programmes around 3Rs of Respect, Relationships and Responsibility, under the thematic focus areas of Economic Development, Education, Health and Infrastructure Development. Cairn India has been working on various community development programmes in partnership with several International, National and local partners such as IFC, HelpAge, Dhara, Sansthan, Smile Foundation, Room to Read, Centre for Health Education, Training and Nutrition Awareness (CHETNA), Rajasthan Mission on Livelihoods, LiQVID, etc to successfully implement projects j across its assets. various p