Besides its business activities, the Group believes in aligning itself with national priorities of development the community at large and has allocated a budget of Rs 10 million per annum for activities which make a positive contribution to the achievement of national goals, such as guaranteeing education for all children and reaching out health care to unserved and underserved pockets, preventive the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Anand was the first business house in the 70's to start an industry in Parwanoo, then a 'notified backward area'. With the establishment of its facilities, the Group set the pace for industrial development of the township which also helped in providing employment to the local people.

Over the years, the Group's social responsibility division - SNS-Foundation - has set up community development centres throughout the country in places where its facilities are located. The development activities include education with emphasis on the girl child, health care of  women in the reproductive age in particular, prevention of the spread of HIV/AIDS, protection of the environment  and vocational skills training to enhance and sustain livelihood . These activities are conducted with selective  participation of the Group employees.

SNS-Foundation has also been interacting and networking with several business enterprises in India and abroad to bring them into the fold of developmental activities. Owing to its efforts, the Foundation has received support from Anand collaborators, notably Henkel of Germany which has given it financial support and also donated three vans which are a mobile health clinics, providing medicare including oral health care and reproductive health care .

An issue which has been an area of focus  is the 'Girl Child Campaign'. In view of the discriminatory attitude towards women in society, the Foundation focuses its efforts to sensitise  young children, adolescents, youth  and adullts about  gender equality. Visual art being a powerful medium of motivating children, SNS-Foundation has organized painting competitions for school children the country, where children express their perception about the condition of the girl child. Selected paintings have been exhibited in India and in Germany with plans to take the exhibition to UK as well.

The Foundation's Gurgaon Centre is implementing of a project called 'Town Enrichment Action Movement', better known by its acronym, TEAM, which was initially supported thru’ the years  2000 to 2003 supported by the British High Commission and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).  Now into its 12th year, TEAM which started with few hundred children now reaches out to over 10,000 children and has been adopted by several public,  government schools with several NGOs also taking up the cudgels.  

TEAM aims at mobilising the diverse sections of Gurgaon's civil society through an Action Committee to support its initiative in making Gurgaon Zero Tolerance for Child Labour. Using methods and approaches like exposure visits, seminars, workshops and street plays, the core TEAM Committee members will be sensitised and trained to create necessary pressure in Gurgaon on various issues.

The long-term objective is to draw all the children below 18 yrs age in Gurgaon into compulsory education programme.