Committed to provide education to millions of underprivileged children. Our children are the nation’s future. We endeavor to lend education support to children in tier 2/3/4 cities and townships so that they have equitable opportunities to earn a livelihood when they grow up. .
Ensuring dignity of community members who are differently-abled, underprivilaged village and street children, visually impared children, talented football playing chidren by providing them the opportunity to learn and grow which ultimately support the community developmnet.
To bring social change through positive impact in communities by employee volunteering along with the development of sense of pride and responsibility. Employees provided with the Volunteering activities opportunities during our CSR project implementation, donation events and crisis management initiative, like Floods, Covid-19 etc.
The main objective of the CSR policy is to lay down guidelines for the Company to make CSR a business process for sustainable development of the society at large. It aims to enhance and implement the society welfare measures by the Company in a well structural manner on short and long term basis with a vision of making V-Mart to act as Good Corporate Citizen. CSR is an evolving concept at V-Mart, it’s been there since incorporation, we have promised to ourselves to take up the responsibility of ensuring a healthy ecosystem. V-Mart’s CSR program is anchored on the continuing commitment to improve the quality of living conditions and opportunities for the differently able without regard to their faith, origin or gender.
The purpose behind V-Mart CSR is to Create a framework for equitable, sustainable development for the upliftment of the less privileged communities in the country for a better future. The V-Mart is geared towards planning, designing, developing and monitoring sustainable development in domains such as education, health, livelihood and environment. The intent is to achieve all-round development via creative ideas coupled with governmental initiatives, and definitive steps on our part. Led by the philosophy of making a meaningful contribution to the society and the environment through long-term and sustained initiatives, we have, over the years, engaged in several activities with the mission to ‘create value and make the ecosystem proud’.
We have been partnering with NGOs, educational and charitable institutions towards enabling an equitable and bright future for the underprivileged and needy people across India.
Building English language proficiency in children, who belongs to underprivileged families and having limited opportunities in their existing education system. Studying in schools that lack access to quality course content and teaching staff essential for English language fluency limit their future growth prospects. Project ReadVantage course designed focusing on the ways of enhanced learning which including learning through stories, art work activities and other various interactive ways of leaning. Teachers also trained time to time to deliver course content with highest accuracy with maximum impact.
Read MoreUnder the Ujjwal Bhavishya, V Mart is providing scholarship of INR 10,000 to students annually, who successfully complete 10th and 12th state/central board exams and comes from the economically weaker section of society with limited opportunities for further studies. To support them with tuition fee in 11th standard and in graduation 1st year, we collect details of interested and eligible students through our stores. After the proper assessment of each applicant, scholarship amount directly transfer to the selected students.
Read MoreObjective of the project is to provide elementary education to children from the economically weaker section of society and from the streets along with the nutritious food in lunch. Children are provided with the education support along with the lots of interactive leaning through storytelling, dance, drawing and various other creative ways of leaning. Under the project children learn and grow through the compassion – centric approach that address their proper and efficient leaning. Teachers are connected with each of them emotionally and guide them through all the challenges and opportunities
Read MorePankh – Wings of Destiny is a training program for Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) supported by V Mart. Project aims to intervene and train Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) and provide them employment opportunities in retail industry and help them become financially independent. The initiative thus aims to create sustainable livelihoods for PwDs and also promote inclusive growth in retail sector. The residential training program provides the complete spectrum skills in a very interactive and easy-to-learn manner with focus on three key skills – Life Skills, English Language Skills and Retail Specific Skills. The youths are also provided exposure visits to Malls covering various formats of retail – QSR, Hypermarket, Supermarket, Apparel store, Luxury store etc. On the completion of the training program, retail organizations are invited to evaluate and interview the PwDs candidates for placements.
Read MoreEkal Vidyalayas – One Teacher One School under the aegis of Ekal Vidyalaya Abhiyaan, a low cost model school system for rural and tribal areas which provides non-formal education to children in the age group of 6 to 14 years. We select a young 10th pass Boy or Girl from the same village with the consent of the Village Panchayat & appoint them as teacher. They are trained regularly in six to eight training camps in a year & starts a three hour non formal school, daily, in open or a place organized by the Village Panchayat as per time convenient to villagers.
Aim is to educate them to improve their living & make the village a viable place to earn their livelihood rather than migrating to cities & work as skilled or unskilled workforce through ekal education.
The residential training program provides the complete spectrum skills in a very interactive and easy-to-learn manner with focus on three key skills – Life Skills, English Language Skills and Retail Specific Skills. The youths are also provided exposure visits to Malls covering various formats of retail – QSR, Hypermarket, Supermarket, Apparel store, Luxury store etc. On the completion of the training program, retail organizations are invited to evaluate and interview the PwDs candidates for placements.
Read MoreUnder the project V Mart is supporting the St. Michael’s School for the Blind, Ranchi, Jharkhand. Providing education support and music training infrastructure to We supporting the school to make a music room for students to, learn, practice and record their music. We will also support students who are extremely ambitious about music and help them build a career in the music industry. Under the project students also supported for their education along with the nutritious food.
Read MoreThis program is designed to help less privileged children from not dropping out of School by using football as a means to achieve their life’s ambitions. Children from economically weaker sections of the society are typically enrolled around the age of 13 years (after comprehensive trials and a screening exercise) and stay in the program till they are 19 years. The program therefore invests in each child for about 5-6 years or till such time their career/education path is clearly defined/implemented as per the objectives of the program.
Read MoreTo bring social change through positive impact in communities by employee volunteering activities during our CSR project implementation, donation events and crisis management initiative, like Floods, Covid-19 etc. These employee volunteering initiative provide them opportunities to give back to the society and to be connected with the communities through our various corporate community engagement initiatives.
Read MoreBuilding English language proficiency in children, who belongs to underprivileged families and having limited opportunities in their existing education system. Studying in schools that lack access to quality course content and teaching staff essential for English language fluency limit their future growth prospects. Project ReadVantage course designed focusing on the ways of enhanced learning which including learning through stories, art work activities and other various interactive ways of leaning. Teachers also trained time to time to deliver course content with highest accuracy with maximum impact.
Read MoreUnder the Ujjwal Bhavishya, V Mart is providing scholarship of INR 10,000 to students annually, who successfully complete 10th and 12th state/central board exams and comes from the economically weaker section of society with limited opportunities for further studies. To support them with tuition fee in 11th standard and in graduation 1st year, we collect details of interested and eligible students through our stores. After the proper assessment of each applicant, scholarship amount directly transfer to the selected students.
Read MoreObjective of the project is to provide elementary education to children from the economically weaker section of society and from the streets along with the nutritious food in lunch. Children are provided with the education support along with the lots of interactive leaning through storytelling, dance, drawing and various other creative ways of leaning. Under the project children learn and grow through the compassion – centric approach that address their proper and efficient leaning. Teachers are connected with each of them emotionally and guide them through all the challenges and opportunities
Read MorePankh – Wings of Destiny is a training program for Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) supported by V Mart. Project aims to intervene and train Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) and provide them employment opportunities in retail industry and help them become financially independent. The initiative thus aims to create sustainable livelihoods for PwDs and also promote inclusive growth in retail sector. The residential training program provides the complete spectrum skills in a very interactive and easy-to-learn manner with focus on three key skills – Life Skills, English Language Skills and Retail Specific Skills. The youths are also provided exposure visits to Malls covering various formats of retail – QSR, Hypermarket, Supermarket, Apparel store, Luxury store etc. On the completion of the training program, retail organizations are invited to evaluate and interview the PwDs candidates for placements.
Read MoreEkal Vidyalayas – One Teacher One School under the aegis of Ekal Vidyalaya Abhiyaan, a low cost model school system for rural and tribal areas which provides non-formal education to children in the age group of 6 to 14 years. We select a young 10th pass Boy or Girl from the same village with the consent of the Village Panchayat & appoint them as teacher. They are trained regularly in six to eight training camps in a year & starts a three hour non formal school, daily, in open or a place organized by the Village Panchayat as per time convenient to villagers.
Aim is to educate them to improve their living & make the village a viable place to earn their livelihood rather than migrating to cities & work as skilled or unskilled workforce through ekal education.
The residential training program provides the complete spectrum skills in a very interactive and easy-to-learn manner with focus on three key skills – Life Skills, English Language Skills and Retail Specific Skills. The youths are also provided exposure visits to Malls covering various formats of retail – QSR, Hypermarket, Supermarket, Apparel store, Luxury store etc. On the completion of the training program, retail organizations are invited to evaluate and interview the PwDs candidates for placements.
Read MoreProviding financial support to various deserving children, who belongs to diversified background and represent the economically weaker section of society. This diversified children specifically belongs to street or villages, successfully completed 10th or 12th class, resides in remote and tribal locations, differently abled youth, primary school going, higher education students, music learners and sports playing children. These programs aims to provide better learning opportunities for them.
Through Community Development programs V Mart seeks to empower individuals and groups of people with the skills they need to effect change within their communities. The main purpose of the community development is to aware the people and build their capacities for the enhancement and improvement of their local communities.
At V-Mart we believe that the backbone of a happy society is a healthy society. Thus, healthcare, particularly in the realm of infectious diseases, comes high on our priority.
This includes regular measures in underprivileged societies to check the spread of killer diseases such as malaria, typhoid and dengue etc. by cleanliness and sanitation drives, and educating people on safety measures.
Further, we also focus on containing such diseases in children, particularly pneumonia and diarrhoea, two leading infectious causes of child deaths. This includes immunization drives as well.
We understand our role towords ensuring Environment & Sustainability and commited to optimized resource usage to meet our present need without compromising the resource availability to the future generations for their utilization.
Our bigger Sustainability vision is to provide an opportunity to stakeholders and societies to buy responsibly, while decreasing our environmental footprint and increasing positive social impact through good governance practices.
The V-Mart CSR believes that women’s empowerment is essential to every society’s socioeconomic progress. It’s indeed essential to educate women about their rights and build confidence in them in order to empower them. They must be skilled in order to better support their family at home as well as professionally. We encourage women to speak up about their concerns, and each voice should be heard and appreciated.
Read MoreOur objective of Employee Volunteering is to bring social change through positive impact in communities by employee volunteering along with the development of sense of pride and responsibility. Employee volunteered for various awareness drives for local communities, visiting and supporting needy people at various NGO, plantation drives, and benefit distribution to the needy people and under our CSR initiatives.
Read MoreV-Mart actively invites NGOs for tie-ups so as to invest wisely in various projects, be it in livelihood, health, education or environment domains.
This way, we endeavour to touch every human life in underprivileged societies. Also, our people take pride in connecting and giving back to society, and make a positive difference in their lives regularly.
Govind Shridhar Shrikhande
VP – Planning and Supply Chain
Govind possesses rich cross-functional experience of more than three decades in the Textiles, Apparel and Retail industry. He has worked across the fabric-apparel value chain, and multi- format retailing, including department stores, hypermarket, airport retail , books and music, etc. In his last professional role, he was the Managing Director of Shoppers Stop,
where he started his stint in 2001 as the Vice President of Buying & Merchandising function, growing to the role of Chief Operating Officer role before being elevated as the MD. Prior to Shoppers Stop, he was associated with Mafatlal and Johnson & Johnson. He has the unique distinction of being part of the team that launched Arvind Denim & Arrow. Govind has also worked with Bombay Dyeing. He holds an MBA in Marketing from Symbiosis, Pune University, and B. Tech. in Textile Technology from VJTI, Mumbai University.
Sonal Mattoo
VP – Planning and Supply Chain
Sonal is a lawyer with almost 20 years of experience and specializes in preventing workplace harassment, diversity issues, mediation matters, matrimonial issues and negotiation. She is the Founder Director of Helping Hands, an NGO that helps implement policies against sexual harassment, and other forms of harassment and discrimination at the work-place,
besides carrying out training and investigation on complaints filed with the organization. She is also the Founder Partner of Mantran Consultants, a firm specializing in CSR activities, Counselling, Diversity policies and workshops. She holds a B.A., LL.B. (Hons) degree from the prestigious National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Her schooling is from The Lawrence School, Sanawar.
Lalit Agarwal
Managing Director (MD)
Lalit Agarwal is a retail entrepreneur, and founded V-Mart in 2002, pioneering the concept of organized value retailing focusing on affordable fashion, in Tier II, III and IV Indian cities. He was awarded by Indian Retail (Franchise India) for ‘Retail Leader of the Year in 2018’ and, in July 2017, was nominated to the Niti Aayog’ Champions of Change initiative.
In Lalit’s stewardship, V-Mart has won many prestigious awards. The company was chosen as “The world’s best-performing departmental store chain” by Bloomberg in 2018, “The Best operating model in India” by Jefferies Research, Indian Power Brand- 2012-2013 by Planman Media; “Most Admired Retailer of the Year”:- “Discount Retail” by Images Retail Award 2011. V-Mart has also won the “Most Admired Retailer of the Year”:- “Concept Store” by India Retail Forum 2011. It is one of the trusted retailers awarded by International Brand Consulting Corporation, USA as India’s No. 1 Brand Awards 2016: India’s Best Retail Fashion Store Chain Category.
As a leading industry voice, Lalit holds the role of the Chairman of Retailers Association of India (RAI) for the Northern Region. Lalit earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from Bombay University, and Diploma in Financial Management from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai.Lalit also writes a weekly blog on the dynamics and interplay of Leadership, Culture and Technology. Track his extensive travels and experiences as he explores and understands the vast and diverse mosaic that India is lalitagarwalspeaks.com
Aakash Moondhara
VP – Planning and Supply Chain
As an accomplished professional with diverse global experience, Aakash is currently the Global CFO of Naspers Fintech and PayU. Previously, he has held senior positions at Nokia India Private Limited, Baring Private Equity Partners (India) where he headed the Retail vertical, Bharti Retail Private Limited, Bharti Airtel Limited and AT&T Corporation and as the CFO of Snapdeal.
Aakash is a steady member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from the University of Delhi and an MBA from Southern Methodist University, Texas. He also attended the International Directors Programme at INSEAD in 2017 and attained the IDP-C certification for driving corporate governance at a Board level.
M. Srinivasan
VP – Planning and Supply Chain
M. Srinivasan is our Vice President, Supply Chain Management and Planning, and has been associated with our Company since March 2, 2015. He holds a bachelor’s degree in technology from the Alagappa College of Technology, Anna University, with a specialisation in chemical engineering, and a post-graduate diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow. Prior to his association with our Company, he has worked with Reliance Global Management Services Limited, Hewlett-Packard GlobalSoft Limited, Tesco Hindustan Service Centre and Resurgent India Capital Advisory Private Limited.
Mr. Jayesh Kothari
President Merchandising
Mr. Jayesh Kothari as President Merchandising. This key position will be integral to ensuring that V-Mart has an innovative and agile merchandising strategy across the country. In this position, Jayesh shall be setting the product line plan vision and would lead the merchandise buying, sourcing, and designing process in order to achieve and exceed our strategic goals. Prior to joining V-Mart, Jayesh has worked with companies like Reliance, Vishal, etc., and has accumulated over 30 years of work experience. Jayesh is known to be a highly impactful and well regarded business leader in the Merchandising Domain. On the personal front, his support system lies with his wife, Manju, son Tejas, and daughter Taarishi. Jayesh is a travel enthusiast and spends his spare time exercising both his mind and body as he loves reading, participating in marathons, and practicing martial arts. His younger self has also won the coveted East India Taekwondo Championship. “What You Do Makes A Difference, And You Have To Decide What Kind Of Difference You Want To Make” – is the affirmation that he lives by. The combination of his experience and drive makes him an ideal fit for our company for the next stages of growth. Please join us in wishing him all the best with his journey at V-Mart.
M. Srinivasan
VP – Planning and Supply Chain
Over the past 3 years at V-Mart, Srini, as he is popularly known, has established the Planning and Allocation function, helping design and implement a rule-based engine that fulfils stock replenishment and reordering requirements at the store level. He has over 17 years of professional experience spread over retail and manufacturing industries, in consulting, planning and managing operations. Prior to V-Mart, Srini has consulted promoters of many retail companies including brands and departmental stores. He was the founding member of the Operations Advisory practice at Resurgent India for Indian Retail SMEs. In an earlier role as an advisor, he worked with Tesco as the Subject Matter Expert for cross functional processes of Tesco’s Operating Model and was involved in the roll out of the US venture Fresh & Easy stores. Earlier, he was a member of the commissioning team of world’s largest grass-root refinery at Reliance Jamnagar. Srini holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from A.C. College of Technology, Anna University, Chennai and a PGDM (MBA) in Finance and Operations from IIM Lucknow. A spiritually inclined person, he is a proud father of two sons.
Anjali Goel
AVP – Human Resources
As Head, HR in V-Mart for the past 5 years, Anjali works closely with the stakeholders and the leadership team to design and implement HR strategy in line with the Business strategy and the future work scenarios in the VUCA space. She has more than 10 years of experience in effective leadership hiring, OD & Change Management, Talent Management, Workforce Planning, Employee Engagement, Talent Reviews and Assessment Centres. Prior to joining V-Mart in 2013, Anjali worked with the DLF Group in a managerial capacity for 6 years. She is competent in building and driving a culture of conversations, of innovation, recognition, values & behaviors and high performance. Her modest nature, patient listening skills and optimistic attitude makes her a natural people’s person and approachable. Anjali holds a Post Graduate Degree in Human Resources from the New Delhi Institute of Management. She is blessed with a daughter.
Madan Agarwal
Whole Time Director
Madan Agarwal has more than four decades of entrepreneurial experience in the fashion retail industry. He started his career by opening a tailoring shop in the 1970s and later, opened a popular and highly successful apparel and footwear retail store in Cuttack, ‘Shreeman Shreemati’. He is a mentor and a guiding force for the company, and has been instrumental in ensuring customer centricity and cost-consciousness is ingrained in the DNA of V-Mart.
He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Arts from the City College, University of Calcutta.
Lalit Agarwal
Managing Director (MD)
Lalit Agarwal is a retail entrepreneur, and founded V-Mart in 2002, pioneering the concept of organized value retailing focusing on affordable fashion, in Tier II, III and IV Indian cities. He was awarded by Indian Retail (Franchise India) for ‘Retail Leader of the Year in 2018’ and, in July 2017, was nominated to the Niti Aayog’ Champions of Change initiative.
In Lalit’s stewardship, V-Mart has won many prestigious awards. The company was chosen as “The world’s best-performing departmental store chain” by Bloomberg in 2018, “The Best operating model in India” by Jefferies Research, Indian Power Brand- 2012-2013 by Planman Media; “Most Admired Retailer of the Year”:- “Discount Retail” by Images Retail Award 2011. V-Mart has also won the “Most Admired Retailer of the Year”:- “Concept Store” by India Retail Forum 2011. It is one of the trusted retailers awarded by International Brand Consulting Corporation, USA as India’s No. 1 Brand Awards 2016: India’s Best Retail Fashion Store Chain Category.
As a leading industry voice, Lalit holds the role of the Chairman of Retailers Association of India (RAI) for the Northern Region. Lalit earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from Bombay University, and Diploma in Financial Management from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai.Lalit also writes a weekly blog on the dynamics and interplay of Leadership, Culture and Technology. Track his extensive travels and experiences as he explores and understands the vast and diverse mosaic that India is lalitagarwalspeaks.com