Ms. Rekha Pillai heads Corporate responsibility in Castrol India limited. Her focus has been on designing, developing and implementing strategic CSR programmes in Castrol India. Being a chartered accountant with more than 20 years of experience in various finance functions, she brings in expertise in programme management, controls framework, compliance and monitoring mechanism to ensure judicious CSR spend. Her responsibilities include providing leadership and oversight over Castrol’s CSR flagship programmes ‘Castrol Sarathi Mitra’ – programme for holistic development of truck drivers and ‘Castrol Eklavya’ - programme for upskilling of mechanics. These programmes received recognition and CSR awards – 2018 Rajasthan State Government CSR award for Castrol Sarathi Mitra programme and 2017 FICCI CSR award for Castrol Eklavya programme. She is deeply involved in community development programmes and drives employee engagement through volunteering initiatives. She is also the recipient of SABERA 2018 - CSR Leader of the year award.

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