The Group believes that Business is 90% people. The Company provides ample opportunities to employees at all levels of the Company to enhance their knowledge and skills. The growth and development of the employees is critical not only for their personal success, but also for the success of the Company. This philosophy and innovative people practices have earned the Company its efficient and dedicated workforce.

The Company has undertaken special HR initiatives with a view to develop a strong and stable organisation having intrinsic strength to meet the current business challenges. Anand Production System (APS) has been launched across all plants with the objective of achieving manufacturing excellence and providing structured nurturing of people identified as Key Talent.

In its endeavour to create a congenial and motivational environment, the Company provides immense opportunities for training and development besides other growth opportunities - job rotation, multi-function responsibilities, empowerment and overseas secondment. The Company believes that training is an important process for development of people; lending support in all this is Anand's technical and management institute, Anand 'U', which designs and conducts programmes to suit the Company's requirements.

Some of the programmes that Anand 'U' focused on during the year included Six Sigma, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Anand Production System (APS) and an emphasis to improve Quality, Cost, Delivery, Growth, Productivity/Profitability under QCDGP.

Other training programmes for soft skill development like leadership, building assessment skills, time management, personality development, stress management are organised depending on the requirements of the people.