Over the past few decades, there have been significant interventions in the field of education both in quantity and quality. With increased investment and interest from the corporate houses, the sector has seen significant development over the last few years. This article throws some light on the best initiatives undertaken by CSR in Education year in FY 2018-19.

1. Higher Education Programme

Source: Wipro Limited

Name of the Company: Wipro Limited

Location: Karnataka

The total expenditure on the project: INR 107.58 Cr.

Total Prescribed CSR in 2018-19: INR 176 Cr.

The company, through the Wipro Academy of Software Excellence program, helps science graduates to study for a Master's degree in Software Engineering. Run in partnership with the Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani, India, this unique program blends rigorous academic exposure with practical professional learning at the workplace. Since its inception in 1995, Wipro has supported and enabled more than 30,000 students to pursue their higher education in Engineering with India’s Premier Engineering Institutions under the programs WASE, WiSTA and WIMS. Over 18,200 students successfully completed their M.Tech degree in various IT disciplines over the last two decades. During FY 2019, the total number of new entrants into the three programs was 1,440 while the aggregate strength across four years was over 10,000.

Implementing Partner: National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)

Brief about the Company

WIPRO Limited is an Indian multinational corporation that provides information technology, consulting and business process services. It is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

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2. Holistic Education Program

Source: Tata Steel

Name of the Company: Tata Steel Limited

Location: Jharkhand, Orissa, Maharashtra

The total expenditure on the project: INR 66.52 Cr.

Total Prescribed CSR in 2018-19: 82.4 Cr.

Tata Steel Limited's Thousand Schools Project, scholarships, Residential school program and Child education for particularly vulnerable tribal groups have been undertaken to provide holistic education support in the states of Jharkhand and Orissa.

The initiatives have impacted more than 1170 schools in Orissa and 248 schools in Jharkhand, provided more than 1,50,500 students.

Implementing Partners: Tribal Cultural Society, Tata Steel Rural Development Society, Tata Steel Foundation

Brief about the Company

Tata Steel, formerly Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited, is an Indian multinational steel-making company headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, and a subsidiary of the Tata Group.

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3. Institute of Chemical Technology-Indian Oil Campus

Source: Indian Oil Corporation Ltd
Name of the Company: Indian Oil Corporation Limited

Location: Orissa

The total expenditure on the project: INR 54.71 Cr.

Total Prescribed CSR in 2018-19: INR 490.6 Cr.

With a focus on strengthening the ‘Industry-Academia’ partnership, Indian Oil collaborated with the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) Mumbai to set up the ICT-IOC Campus at Bhubaneswar. The admission process for the 5-year integrated M. Tech Programme, through the JEE-Main examination, has been completed for a batch size of 60 students, which saw an overwhelming response from students. A unique ‘one-of-its-kind’ Executive M. Tech.

Implementing Partner: Institute of Chemical Technology

Brief about the Company

Indian Oil Corporation Limited, commonly known as IndianOil is an Indian state government-owned oil and gas company headquartered in New Delhi.

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4. International Automobile Centre of Excellence (i-ACE)

Source: National Skills Network
Name of the Company: Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Location: Gujarat

The total expenditure on the project: INR 50 Cr.

Total Prescribed CSR in 2018-19: INR 153.5 Cr.

Maruti Suzuki India Limited contributed to the setting up of the International Automobile Centre of Excellence (i-ACE), a state-of-the-art institute for automobile training and research in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The model and curriculum for i-ACE have been developed in line with industry requirements and the projected skill gap in the sector. The offerings of this program are based on the automobile industry requirements and the existing level of training provisions in India.

Implementing Partners: International Automobile Centre of Excellence (i-ACE), Maruti Suzuki Foundation

Brief about the Company

Maruti Suzuki India Limited, formerly known as Maruti Udyog Limited, is an automobile manufacturer in India. It is a 56.21% owned subsidiary of the Japanese car and motorcycle manufacturer Suzuki Motor Corporation.

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5. Zero Investment Innovations for Education Initiatives (ZIIEI)

Source: HDFC Bank
Name of the Company: HDFC Bank Limited

Location: Pan-India

The total expenditure on the project: INR 48 Cr.

Total Prescribed CSR in 2018-19: INR 439.2 Cr.

Zero Investment Innovations for Education Initiatives (ZIIEI) program was launched at Jaipur, Rajasthan in the previous year and gained momentum in the year under review. The ‘Teaching The Teacher’ program (3T) seeks to transform education in government schools across India. It is a unique program that is committed to improving the skills of teachers, which in turn benefits the pupils. Under 3T, more than 15 lakh teachers across 21 states/union territories have been trained by inviting ideas from them and implementing the selected ideas in schools to improve the quality of education. It has potentially benefited more than 1.6 crore students indirectly and is being executed jointly with a leading non-governmental organization.

Implementing Partners: Banasthali Vidyapith, CBM India Trust, International Foundation for Research and Education, K. C. Mahindra Education Trust, Magic Bus India Foundation, Meljol, Moinee, Save the Children India, Seva Sahayog Foundation, Sri Aurobindo Society, Teach to Lead

Brief about the Company

HDFC Bank Limited is an Indian banking and financial services company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is s India’s largest private sector lender by assets. It is the largest bank in India by market capitalization as of February 2016.

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6. Lab on Bike

Source: Tata Consultancy Services
Name of the Company: Tata Consultancy Services Limited

Location: Pan-India

The total expenditure on the project: INR 36 Cr.

Total Prescribed CSR in 2018-19: INR 542 Cr.

‘Lab on Bike’ program provides children from low income, disadvantaged communities and their teachers with fun learning opportunities that foster a scientific mind-set. The Lab on Bike program has been implemented by TCS in 12 schools around Bengaluru and 10 schools in Ahmedabad, in association with Agastya International Foundation. In partnership with Tata Trusts, TCS has set up science and mathematics laboratories in remote tribal areas of Odisha, to provide children access to quality education Mobile science labs housed in vans with GPS trackers, visit different blocks of Odisha to provide hands-on training in basic science.

Implementing Partners: Agastya International Foundation, Tata Trusts, Avasara Academy, TCS Centre for Entrepreneurship, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad), Advanced Computer Training Centre (ACTC)

Brief about the Company

Tata Consultancy Services Limited is an Indian multinational information technology service and consulting company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is a subsidiary of Tata Group and operates in 149 locations across 46 countries.

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7. Mahindra Ecole Centrale (MEC)

Source: Mahindra Ecole Centrale
Name of the Company: Tech Mahindra Limited

Location: Telangana

The total expenditure on the project: INR 24.77 Cr.

Total Prescribed CSR in 2018-19: INR 84.41 Cr.

Mahindra École Centrale (MEC), College of Engineering, established by MEI in collaboration with École Centrale Paris (now CentraleSupélec) and JNTU (Jawaharlal Nehru Technical Institute) Hyderabad It is an international quality technology school with assured career progression for engineering aspirants. It focuses on multi-disciplinary knowledge, personality development, and critical-creative thinking.

During the year 2018-19, MEC has signed MoU’s with multiple universities in the USA like University of Florida, the University of Nebraska at Omaha and it’s in the process of signing MoU’s with University of Texas at Austin, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, the University of Wisconsin at Madison and many more. These MoU’s are opening doors to MEC students to undertake 8-10 weeks of summer internships and faculty development programs overseas.

Implementing Partners: École Centrale Paris, Jawaharlal Nehru Technical University (JNTU)

Brief about the Company

Tech Mahindra Limited is an Indian multinational subsidiary of the Mahindra Group, providing information technology services and business process outsourcing to companies in various vertical and horizontal markets.

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8. The Primary Education Programme

Source: ITC Ltd
Name of the Company: ITC Limited

Location: Pan-India

The total expenditure on the project: INR 22.78 Cr.

Total Prescribed CSR in 2018-19: INR 306.55 Cr.

The Primary Education Programme provides children from weaker sections of society in the Company’s factory catchments access to education with a focus on learning outcomes and retention. The program covered 1.15 lakh children during the year, thus taking the total coverage to around 6.91 lakh children. In addition, nearly 27,000 children were covered through support in teaching and learning material. 199 government primary schools were provided infrastructure support comprising boundary walls, additional classrooms, sanitation units, and furniture, taking the total number of government primary schools covered to date to 1,802.

Implementing Partner: Directly implemented by the Company

Brief about the Company

ITC Limited is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal. Established in 1910 as the 'Imperial Tobacco Company of India Limited', the company was renamed as the 'India Tobacco Company Limited' in 1970 and later to 'I.T.C. Limited' in 1974.

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9. Education Infrastructure Initiative

Source: Hero MotoCorp
Name of the Company: Hero MotoCorp Limited

Location: Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Gujarat

The total expenditure on the project: INR 20.33 Cr.

Total Prescribed CSR in 2018-19: INR 93.72 Cr.

Hero MotoCorp Limited covered the entire gamut of infrastructure creation viz. construction of new classrooms, playgrounds and to provide sanitation, and drinking water facilities. They also supported the above initiatives with renovation, painting and necessary furniture along with basic resources like school bags, stationery, and books. Under this initiative, the Company also set up solar power plants, built libraries, science and computer laboratories in several schools. These have helped in increasing the attendance of students as well as teachers.

Implementing Partners: FUEL, Magic Bus, CRY, HPPI, Agastya, Quota International, Nabet, AIF, SETCO Foundation, RKMF

Implementing Partner: Directly implemented by the Company

Brief about the Company

Hero Motocorp Limited., formerly Hero Honda, is an Indian motorcycle and scooter manufacturer based in New Delhi, India. The company is the largest two-wheeler manufacturer in the world, and also in India.

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10. Protsahan Scheme

Source: Reliance Foundation
Name of the Company: Reliance Industries Limited

Location: Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab

The total expenditure on the project: INR 20.08 Cr.

Total Prescribed CSR in 2018-19: INR 811.16 Cr

Under Protsahan Scheme in East Godavari (Andhra Pradesh), Reliance Industries Limited provided scholarships to meritorious students from the villages around the plant location. 218 students were provided scholarships under the scheme for pursuing their higher studies 2,081 scholarships have been provided since inception.

Brief about the Company

Reliance Industries Limited is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Reliance owns businesses across India engaged in energy, petrochemicals, textiles, natural resources, retail, and telecommunications.

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