To form part of the Nifty100 Enhanced ESG Index, stocks should qualify the following eligibility criteria:
- Stocks should form part of Nifty 100.
- Companies should have an ESG risk score.
- Companies with severe category risk will be excluded.
- Companies with a controversy category of 4 and 5 will be excluded (scale: 1-5, category 1 being least controversial).
- Companies engaged in the business of tobacco, alcohol, controversial weapons and gambling operations shall be excluded.
The number of constituents in the index is variable. Weight of each stock in the index is based on its free-market capitalization and modified ESG risk score. Index has a sector cap, and each constituent is capped at lower of 8% or 5 times of the weight of the stock in the index based only on free-float market capitalization. Index is reconstituted on a semi-annual basis.