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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

Contact Us

North America Headquarters

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5th Floor

East Hartford CT 06108

USA

T: +1 860 528 5430

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Europe, Middle East, and Africa

Headquarters

Cyient Europe Ltd.

High Holborn House

52-54 High Holborn

London WC1V 6RL

UK

T: +44 20 7404 0640

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Level 1, 350 Collins Street

Melbourne, Victoria, 3000

Australia

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Infocity, Madhapur

Hyderabad - 500081

India

T: +91 40 6764 1000

F: +91 40 2311 0352

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