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1 Introduction and Background .................................................................................Error! Bookmark not defined.
2 CSR Vision and Objectives ............................................................................................................................... 3
3 Cyient CSR Governance Structure................................................................................................................... 4
4 Board .............................................................................................................................................................. 4
5 CSR Committee .............................................................................................................................................. 4
6 Monitoring and Reporting Framework ............................................................................................................. 5
7 Resources ....................................................................................................................................................... 5
8 Planning ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
9 Cyient major CSR Initiatives ............................................................................................................................ 6
1. IT Literacy & Digitally empowering community…………………………………………………………………………………….6
2. Improve Quality Education imparted to underprivileged children ………………………………………………………….8
3. Support to Social Innovation……………………………………………………………………………………………………………10
4. Support to Community Development……………………………………………………………………………………………….11
10 Volunteers Activity Calendar ........................................................................................................................ 11
12 Upcoming CSR Activities ............................................................................................................................... 12
13 Volunteering ................................................................................................................................................. 12
14 FAQs ........................................................................................................................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined.
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Introduction and Background
About Voluntary Organization
Cyient Ltd., (formerly Infotech Enterprises Ltd.,) believes in giving back to society in a measure that is proportionate to
its success in business. Cyient spearheads its corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives through the Cyient
Foundation.
Cyient Foundation (formerly Infotech Enterprises Charitable Trust) executed on March 27, 2002, at Hyderabad in the
former united Andhra Pradesh by its Founder & Executive Chairman B. V. R. Mohan Reddy. Since its inception almost 15
years ago, the Cyient Foundation has conceptualized and enabled various social initiatives, aims to facilitate access to
quality education, skill development, and participate in projects with business-aligned social innovation, and invest in
environmental development projects.
CSR Vision and Objectives
Short Title and Applicability
This policy, which encompasses the company’s philosophy for delineating its responsibility as a corporate citizen and
lays down the guidelines and mechanism for undertaking socially useful programs for the welfare and sustainable
development of the community at large, is titled as the ‘Cyient CSR Policy’.
This policy shall apply to all CSR initiatives and activities taken up at the various offices and global locations of Cyient, for
the benefit of the society—a key stakeholder of the company.
This policy and the operational guidelines issued herein are subject to and pursuant to the provisions of the Companies
Act, 2013 (Act) and the rules and regulations made thereunder
CSR Objective, Vision and Mission Statements
Cyient believes in the philosophy of returning to society as a measure of gratitude for what it has taken from it. In view of
this, the company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) aims to extend beyond charity and enhance social impact.
The Company’s CSR vision
• To help underprivileged children to access the quality of education
• To participate in projects with business aligned innovation
The Company’s CSR mission
Achieving long-term, holistic development of the community around us by being committed to create and support
programs that bring about sustainable changes through education, environment, and healthcare systems.
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Cyient CSR Governance Structure
Board
The Board of Cyient Limited will be responsible for
• Approving the CSR policy as formulated by the CSR Committee
• Ensuring that in each financial year the Company spends at least 2% of the average net profit before taxation
excluding profits arising from overseas branches made during the three immediately preceding financial years.
• Ensuring that every financial year funds committed by the Company for CSR activities are utilized effectively and
regularly monitoring implementation.
• Disclosing in its Annual Report the names of CSR Committee members, the content of the CSR policy and ensure
annual reporting of its CSR activities on the Company website.
• Ensuring annual reporting of CSR policy to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, as per the
prescribed format.
As per Section 135, the reasons for under spending of the allocated CSR budget shall be specified in the
Board’s Report.
The surplus arising out of the CSR activities, if any, will not be considered as a part of the business profits of the
company.
CSR Committee
The board of directors of the Company will constitute a CSR committee. The
Committee shall:
• Comprise at least three directors including one independent director
• Adopt this CSR Policy and monitor its implementation and the programs thereunder
• Meet at such intervals as may be required or expedient including once at the end of the financial year
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• Approve and adopt the CSR report for publication in the annual report of the company
• Do such other things and acts as may be required for the implementation of the policy, matters connected
therewith or incidental thereto
The Chairman & Managing Director and President –CA & Infrastructure shall be permanent invitees to the committee.
The Company Secretary shall act as secretary to the committee.
Monitoring and Reporting Framework
Cyient Foundation shall monitor the implementation of the CSR Policy through periodic reviews of the activities of Cyient
Foundation and Cyient Adopted schools. The respective heads of Cyient Foundation will present their annual budgets
and list of programmes, projects, and activities to the CSR Committee for its approval. The Committee will, in turn,
recommend this to the Cyient Board for its final approval.
In compliance with the Act and to ensure funds spent on CSR programs are creating the desired impact on the ground a
comprehensive monitoring and reporting framework will be put in place. The monitoring and reporting mechanism is
divided into three distinct areas:
• Program Monitoring
• Evaluation
• Reporting and Documentation
RESOURCES
Funding & Allocation
For achieving its CSR objectives through implementation of meaningful and sustainable CSR programs, Cyient will
allocate 2% of its previous year’s, profit computed in accordance with the provisions of the Act, as its Annual CSR
Budget. The amount will be contributed to the Cyient Foundation.
Further, the Cyient Foundation may also receive contributions from the associates of the company and its subsidiaries,
customers, and their representatives and other stakeholders.
PLANNING
Identification of the thrust areas and strategic initiatives
For purposes of focusing its CSR efforts in a continued and effective manner, the following thrust areas have been
identified:
• Primary education, education, and literacy enhancement
• Business aligned healthcare
• Environment protection / horticulture
• Infrastructure development
• Drinking water/ sanitation Facilities in schools, particularly for girls
• Scholarships to students/trainees etc.
• Disaster management activities related to natural calamities.
The committee may modify, restrict or enlarge the thrust areas from time to time within the parameters fixed by the
Act. The actual distribution of expenditure among these Thrust areas will depend upon the local needs as may be
determined by the need Identification studies or discussions with local government/bodies/citizen’s forums/NGOs.
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Cyient’s major CSR Initiatives include:
1. IT literacy and digitally empowering community
2. Improve quality education imparted to underprivileged children
3. Support for social innovation
4. Support to community development
1. IT Literacy & Digitally Empowering Neighborhoods
Cyient Foundation had launched 54 Cyient Digital Centers (CDC) across Serilingampally Mandal Govt. Schools. The
CDC’s aim to provide high-quality digital educational resources to underprivileged students of the government schools,
and also digitally literate the community members. Cyient provides access to quality education to more than 20000+
underprivileged children and will literate more than 50000+ non-IT literate communities in the Mandal.
By creating CDC’s, we are democratizing learning for students to have access to the wealth of knowledge including
courseware, general knowledge, and current affairs online. We are engaging citizens from the age of 10-60 years to
become digitally literate.
CDC’s features:
• Online supplemental learning portal for students, teachers, and schools from classes 1 to 10. CDs and DVDs to
access offline content.
• Curriculum aligned to CBSE, ICSE, and SSC
• Learning resources for various subjects (Science, Mathematics, English, and Social) in multiple formats
(animations, video lectures, presentations, class notes, worksheets, mind maps, etc.)
• A repository of resources (question banks, lesson plans, projects, activities, mapped content, professional
development and more) for teachers
• Twenty-first-century learning framework—skill-centric, project oriented, and STEM-based—developed by a
talented group of subject experts from across the world
• Internet connectivity to browse content from various digital library links
• Complementing the features of National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) center at the School aims to empower
neighbourhood communities with digital literacy,
• CDC’s facilitate deployment of digitally-enabled citizen services.
• The center is expected to train 1000 community members— one from each family— from the surrounding areas
to operate a computer or a digital access device (such as a tablet),
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• CDC’s train the community members on how to use the Internet to search for information, send/receive emails
and access various e-governance services.
Images of CDC are launched on August 29, 2016, in Govt. Schools of Serilingampally Mandal.
National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) Centers:
NDLM Centers provides L1 and L2 level certification
training to the community members.
L1: The basic level IT literacy training
L2: L1 + trainees will be trained to effectively interact
with the government
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Cyient Foundation Digital Libraries
Cyient Foundation had initiated two Digital Libraries with the aim of helping 1000+ underprivileged students gain access
to repositories of high-quality educational resources.
These are first of its kind models developed in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, which is equipped with e-learning tools to
help students with their classwork and provides educational material in a number of interesting formats
The first library was inaugurated by Shrimati Smriti Irani and Shri Venkaiah Naidu in Nellore.
2) Improve quality education imparted to underprivileged children:
Cyient intent to improve the quality of education through the adoption of Govt. schools, Cyient Foundation had adopted
16 schools in and around our facilities and presently, we support 10,500+ children from primary education to high
schooling.
Adopt a School
• August 13, 2007, we signed an MOU for the adoption of Gachibowli School. Since then we have been working towards improving
the quality of education through the adoption of government schools.
• Presently, we support pre-primary children all the way through to high school students.
• Deployed initiatives to provide basic amenities and facilities at these schools
• Made remarkable progress by adopting 16 schools in and around the neighborhood of our facilities located in Hyderabad, Kakinada,
and Noida.
Empowering Underprivileged Children
• Till date, we have supported over 11,500 underprivileged children across 16 adopted schools in our neighborhood
Cyient Foundation Activities to improve the new admissions and reduce the dropouts:
• Cyient Associates volunteer to conduct various meetings with children, parents and the local community in bringing awareness
on education and its social impact for a child’s future.
• Volunteers conduct career guidance programs to show sustainable earning sources to the children after completing their SSC.
• Provide nutritious food supplements and supply snacks to the children who attend the extra classes to keep them agile.
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Results: The overall dropouts reduced to 4% and the new admissions increased by 21%.
Cyient Foundation Activities in providing quality education: • Constructed seven additional classrooms for higher classes in adopted schools.
• Developed play areas and secured the school premises by proper fencing to avoid trespassing by public thus creating a congenial
school atmosphere.
• Restored power connection and provided lights & ceiling fans for the comfort of students.
• Appointed qualified teaching staff for Science, Mathematics and English subjects.
• Conducting special classes for 9th & 10th class students.
• Distribute notebooks, exam kits school bags, uniforms, and teaching aids to schoolchildren for every academic year.
• Conduct various competitions like essay writing, elocution, and painting to bring out the latent talent in children as an ongoing
exercise and encourage children with prizes.
Results: The overall pass rate has improved to 85% from 28%.
Cyient Foundation Activities in improving the new admissions and pass% of girl students:
• Cyient constructed separate washrooms for girls. Provided quality uniforms to the girl students.
• Female Volunteers conduct career guidance programs to show sustainable earning sources to the girl children after completing
their SSC.
• Provide assistance to the needy to continue their higher education through Scholarships, grants etc.
Girl student dropout % reduced to 3% from 13%. Girl student enrollment % has improved from 20%
to 53%. Girl student pass% has improved from 31% to 75%.
Special focus on the Girl Child:
Cyient Foundation is specially intended to impart education to girl children who have been deprived of education for
long. Through an inbuilt strategy, our initiatives attempt to overcome the challenges that prevent girl children from
attending school. Specially designed girl-child policy, separate toilet for girls, one female teacher in each shift and special
sensitization campaigns through Cyient volunteers have been put in place to encourage parents to send their daughters
to school.
Cyient Associates and their family member’s participation
• The family members of Cyient associates have been very participative in various CSR events.
• They utilize the opportunity of meeting the children on various occasions and motivate the female students at large in realizing
their aspirations.
• 2600+ enthusiastic Cyient CSR Volunteers are contributing in enlightening the children in realizing their dreams.
3) Social Innovation aligned to Business Innovation
As a part of our business aligned initiatives aimed at giving back to the society, Cyient Foundation is supporting
Innovation center at LV Prasad Eye Institute.
Cyient Foundation provides funding for infrastructure to support research, develop new practices, tools, capabilities in
the field of Ophthalmology, and also serve as an ‘idea hub’ for knowledge dissemination.
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Cyient Foundation has committed to donate an amount of Rs. 2,50,00,000 (Rupees Two Crores Fifty Lakhs) over a period
of five years.
Apart from this monetary support, Cyient will also leverage its engineering capabilities to support LVPEI in developing
new products for diagnosing eye diseases and imaging eye tissues - products that will be helpful in disease management,
therapy, and rehabilitation of vision impaired patients.
LVPEI-MIT-Cyient had organized Engineering the Eye Innovation Workshop: Doctors and engineers united for seven
days of nonstop idea generation and prototyping on some of the biggest challenges in eye health.
Funding from Cyient Foundation has helped in the following activities:
• Setting up the infrastructure of the SRUJANA Technology Innovation Center
• Funding the fellowships/internships
• Organizing annual Srujana / MIT Media Lab workshops
• Funding the projects that facilitated the developments of
• Pediatric Perimeter
Open Indirect Ophthalmoscope
Below are our Current Projects and Accomplishments:
Current Projects ongoing projects at SRUJANA Technology Innovation Center:
• Open Indirect Ophthalmoscope—aimed at developing fundus imaging technology to decrease cost significantly and screen retinal
pathologies
• Pediatric Perimeter—developing a device to estimate the visual fields in infants and toddlers
• Foldable Phoropter—screening device to predict refractive errors (i.e. glasses power)
• Educational Tools
• O- Optometry students—developed to train/enhance retinoscopy techniques
• O-Visually impaired—developed for visually challenged children to learn words and their shapes through a playful puzzle
• Pupil Plus—developed to quantify the relative afferent pupillary defects.
• Prosthesis for Orbital Excentration—to digitalize the process and refine the accuracy in making orbital excentration prosthesis
• Anterior Segment Imaging—developing a device to reconstruct the topography of anterior segment of the eye.
• Smart Cane—this smart techno-scientific cane is prototyped for the blind and visually impaired to enhance their mobility
• Digital Ophthalmoscope—to prototype a compact size, ergonomic and easy to use ophthalmoscope device to capture and
visualize images of the retina and store it for further evaluation
• Bulls Eye Drops—a device to self-instill eye drops with precision
• Mactel—developing an imaging processing algorithm to determine the severity of macular telangiectasia diseases.
SRUJANA Technology Innovation Center Accomplishments:
• Two Patents—for pediatric perimeter and the bull's eye drops
• BioAsia award—first prize for pediatric perimeter
• Two presentations at a prestigious annual meeting of the Association of Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2016 held
at Seattle, WA, USA and one at the premier annual computer vision event held at Boston, MA, the USA in 2015.
• Open Indirect Ophthalmoscope has been selected as one of the finalists at Hackaday Prize 2016
• Foldable Phoropter has been selected as one of the semifinalists at Clearly Vision prize
Support extended to Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), in developing an innovation center in
Hyderabad.
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Cyient Foundation funding towards expenditure on scientific research (that may be undertaken in the form of
projects/studies/programs/activities).
Our funding to support in the area of preventive healthcare and strengthening of health systems, for enabling delivery of
better primary healthcare in India.
4) Support to Community Development
Swachh Bharath:
Swachh Telangana– Swachh Pathashala: As part of the Swachh Bharat Initiative, Cyient Foundation has introduced the
Swachh Telangana-Swachh Pathashala campaign to provide water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) facilities in 54
government schools.
Impacting more than 20,000 students in Lingampally Mandal in Ranga Reddy District, Telangana.
Volunteers Activity Calendar
S.No Activity Calendar Dates Remarks
1. Develop Reading Skills in
School Children
Every 1st Saturday Volunteers to pick up nearest schools
and participate in the activities on their
convenient time during school operating
hours
(09:00 to 16:00 hrs.).
Cyient Digital Centers (CDCs) operates
from 15:30 to 19:30 PM including
Sundays
2. Mega Plantation 3rd week of June
3. Teaching Practical’s Every 3rd Saturday
4. Cyient CSR DAY August 15
5. CHILDREN DAY November 14
6. Sports Every 4th Saturday
7. Support to CDC’s Every Saturday
8. Make a Wish 2nd Week December
9.
10.
REPUBLIC DAY
Joy of Teaching
January 26
Every 3rd Saturday
Upcoming CSR Activity:
S.No Location Activity Remarks
1. Noida Adoption of School CSR volunteering opportunity in
education initiatives in adopted schools 2. Mysore Adoption of School
3. Bangalore Adoption of School
4. Vishakhapatnam Adoption of School
Volunteering –
1) Associates volunteering in CSR initiatives:
Cyient Ltd., through its Cyient Foundation CSR programs, to enhance volunteering culture and community
involvement. It is to help, solve real problems and enrich communities.
It does this by:
• Working with volunteers in Cyient Foundation CSR activity involvements in the areas of prioritized focus areas covered in Policy
and improve the diversity and quality of volunteering.
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• Providing potential volunteers with the means to access volunteering opportunities.
• Helping associates who might otherwise have found themselves excluded to take part in volunteering.
Cyient Foundation is committed to involve volunteers to:
• Form various groups and own initiatives
• Contribute to on-going activities
• Able to provide perspectives and apply different skills to enrich programs & enhance the impact.
• Offer opportunities for associate participation.
• Able to social audit and share critical feedback
This volunteering process will help volunteers to understand various opportunities in our CSR Volunteering Program and
avenues to contribute.
In Cyient Ltd., CSR volunteering is an individual social responsibility and volunteers are accountable for their
commitments.
Expectations from volunteers;
• Volunteers to participate in activity by dedicating their personal time (out of business hours)
• No Monitory contribution from volunteers in executing the activities.
• Stick to the time and present per plan
• Make sure to work with other members and impact the cause
• Keeps Cyient Foundation ethics and values while performing
Associates interested in becoming volunteers with Cyient Foundation can self-nominate through MyCyientQuick
Links Corporate CSR and will be invited for involvement as and when volunteering opportunities arise.
Volunteers can spend considerable time on CSR Page to know more information about the organization and specific
information on the volunteering they are interested.
There are various activities within Cyient Foundation to fulfill its objectives. Below roles are identified per CSR Policy and
associates can look opportunities within these roles;
Cyient Foundation CSR Executive is a member of the team who provides;
Understand the initiative, purpose, financials well and drive other members
• Plans, communicates and executes activities and shares schedules
• Provide direction to the overall team to reach set goals.
• Coordinates with other members to derive set benefits.
• Reports monthly progress
• Provides critical feedback to either improve engagement or get away if purpose is solved
• Energizes team to continue to engage and provides opportunities to all.
CSR Volunteers
These are a bunch of volunteers who are part of the activity and participate in activity execution.
Floating CSR Volunteers
These are a bunch of volunteers who could join the activity in short notice and contribute quickly.
2) CSR Activity Volunteer Teams
It is identified to have activity teams to carry initiatives/activities efficiently. As per Cyient Foundation CSR Policy, each
project approved by CSR Committee will be managed by a project group.
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3) Volunteer’s Voice
Volunteers will be consulted in taking feedback on the specific activity or program.
4) Cyient Foundation CSR Activity Reporting
CSR teams can ensure activity progress & Program details can be made available in the portal.
• Make sure to post upcoming events in the portal
• Track participation attendance of the volunteers regularly and ensure associates/volunteers continue the momentum.
• Update portal immediately after activity with relevant pictures & experiences from volunteers.
• Manage appropriate communication with leadership teams so as to plan business appropriately.
5) Support
Volunteers will be closely working with Cyient Foundation’s CSR Executive who will provide regular support. Support
sessions will provide the opportunity for ongoing dialogue about the development of the volunteering role and any
advice and guidance as needed.
Faqs:
1) Is there a CSR Org structure for your CSR activities? (This is to gauge how organized the approach of the organization
is)
Ans: Yes
2) Do you include any targets/ items under formal KRAs of associates? If yes, kindly elaborate.
Ans: No
3) Is there dedicated personnel to take responsibility for CSR activities?
Ans: Yes – Mr. Krishna Deevi, CSR Manager (Krishna.Deevi@Cyient.com)
4) Do you have a dedicated portal for CSR activities? Can you attach a few screenshots from your portal that will help us
understand the flow/ structure and key elements in your portal?
Ans: No dedicated portal, using corporate portal for CSR Page
MyCyientQuick LinksCorporateCSR
Working on Cyient Foundation dedicated website
5) How are the associates engaging with the CSR activities—what are the modes of communication (emails/DLs/portal)
and increasing engagement of associates?
Ans:
Group emails
Posters and fixtures
Standees
Floor announcements
6) A number of associates or hours that contribute towards CSR activities—are these hours/associates engaging during
weekdays or on their own time?
Ans: NO Weekdays, associates spend time on holidays and weekends voluntarily
Executive Chairman/CEO/MD
President CSR
CSR Manager
Support Functions CSR Executives
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7) Have you seen any positive correlation between your CSR effort and retention/employee engagement over the last
few years?
Ans: Yes
I. The employee engagement through CSR activities is very high.
II. We see increase in employee retention
III. Good ethical and behavioral practices through volunteering.
8) What sort of employee demographics do you see engaging most in CSR activities?
Ans:
Hyderabad—we have most volunteers participating in CSR Activities.
Cyient has adopted 13 schools in and around Hyderabad
Cyient has 54 DIGITAL LITERACY centers and skill development centers in Hyderabad.
We see 2000+ volunteers actively participating in CSR Activities.
Cyient sponsors cycle rides, marathons and runs in Hyderabad and we see immense
participation.
Rewarding/Incentivizing/ Empowering modes:
9) How does your organization encourage employees to join CSR activities? – are there any formal structures to
monitor and reward their engagement in such activities – KRA / informal appreciation, etc.
Ans: No
Reporting managers will encourage the participation in CSR
10) How does your organization reward CSR contributions in your organization?
Ans: We encourage volunteers through CSR Participation certificates.
Distribute t-shirts on the day of participation.
11) What elements make your CSR activities fun/ interesting (just the fact you are working together/ rewards/ freebies
such as T-shirts you get, etc.)
Ans:
Participation 3certificates
Distribution of t-shirts
Fun of working together
Satisfaction of being a good corporate citizen
12) What institutions have you been involved in, for CSR activities? Can you provide some practical hurdles/ good
experiences in your CSR association with institutions (government schools, old-age homes, NGOs, computer literacy
schools, adult literacy schools, civic society volunteering, etc.)
Ans:
AMC Foundation— for sanitation in schools
Grameen Vidya Foundation—children’s education, digital literacy and computer training
ASSIST—for developing schools infrastructure
Digital Empowerment Foundation—digital literacy
Nasscom Foundation—National Digital Literacy Mission Centers
Community Pure Water Networks—drinking water plants
Nirman Foundation—school activities
Teach India Foundation—teaching and learning
Food For Thought Foundation & Room to Read—conventional Library activities
Educomp—digital learning equipment
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About Cyient Cyient (Estd: 1991, NSE: Cyient) provides engineering,
manufacturing, geospatial, network and operations
management services to global industry leaders. We leverage
the power of digital technology and advanced analytics
capabilities, along with domain knowledge and technical
expertise, to solve complex business problems. As a Design,
Build and Maintain partner, we take solution ownership across
the value chain to help our clients focus on their core, innovate,
and stay ahead of the curve.
Relationships lie at the heart of how we work. With nearly
14,000 employees in 21 countries, we partner with clients to
operate as part of their extended team, in ways that best suit
their organization’s culture and requirements. Our industry
focus spans aerospace and defense, medical,
telecommunications, rail transportation, semiconductor,
utilities, industrial, energy and natural resources.
For more information, please visit
www.cyient.com
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