Grievance Redressal Policy
Last Updated: February 2025
1. Introduction
Sajan International Private Limited (hereinafter referred as “the Company” or “SIPL”) a Non-Banking Financial Company (‘NBFC’) holding a valid Certificate of Registration (“CoR”) with Reserve Bank of India (‘RBI’) vide registration no.B-14.02036 dated 06-11-2015 under current RBI classification as NBFC - Investment and Credit Company (NBFC-ICC) – Non-Deposit taking Systemically Important (‘ICC-ND-SI’).
This Grievance Redressal Policy (“Policy”) is formulated in accordance with the:
- Reserve Bank of India (Non-Banking Financial Companies – Credit Facilities) Directions, 2025.
- Reserve Bank of India (Non-Banking Financial Companies – Responsible Business Conduct) Directions, 2025
- The Information Technology Act, 2000, and other applicable laws.
- Other applicable acts, regulations and rules which requires the publishing of a privacy policy for handling of or dealing in personal Information including sensitive personal data or Information and all applicable laws, regulations, directions, guidelines provided by applicable regulatory authorities, including but not limited to the Reserve Bank of India (“RBI”).
This Policy sets out the framework for receiving, addressing, and resolving customer grievances in a fair, transparent, and time-bound manner.
2. Basis
Customer service is extremely important for sustained business growth and as an organization we strive to ensure that our customers receive exemplary service across different touch points. Customer complaints constitute an important voice of customer, and this policy details complaint handling through a structured grievance redressal framework. Complaint redressal is supported by a review mechanism, to minimize the recurrence of similar issues in future.
3. Basic Principles
The Grievance Redressal Policy follows the following principles:
- Customers are treated fairly at all times.
- Complaints raised by customers are dealt with courtesy and in a timely manner.
- Customers are informed of avenues to escalate their complaints within the organization, and their rights if they are not satisfied with the resolution of their complaints.
- The employees work in good faith and without prejudice, towards the interests of the customers.
4. Grievance Redressal and Escalation Matrix
Customers may register their queries or complaints and escalate them through the defined matrix below:
Service Channel
Customers may raise their queries or complaints through the following service channels:
Grievance Redressal Officer
Nodal Officer
RBI Ombudsman
If the complaint is not resolved to the customer's satisfaction within the prescribed timeline, or where the customer has not received a response within the applicable period, the customer may approach the Reserve Bank – Integrated Ombudsman Scheme (RB-IOS).
5. Review and monitoring
Periodic review of monitoring of complaints, TATs, nature of complaints is done to ensure that process loopholes if any are plugged and trends are checked. In case the IO upholds the decision of the Company to reject/partly reject the complaint, the reply to the customer should explicitly state the fact that the complaint has been examined by the Internal Ombudsman and, for the reasons stated in the reply, the decision of the Company has been upheld.
In case the Internal Ombudsman overrules the decision of the Company to reject/partly reject the complaint, the Company can disagree with the decision of the Internal Ombudsman with the approval of the Executive Director/Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer as may be applicable. In such cases, the reply to the complainant shall explicitly state the fact that the complaint was examined by the Internal Ombudsman and the decision of the Company was overruled by the Internal Ombudsman in favour of the complainant; however, the Company, with the approval of the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, has disagreed with the decision of the Internal Ombudsman. All such cases shall be subsequently reviewed on a quarterly basis by the Board of the Company.