TCS announces Rs 100 crore for PM’s ‘Clean India’ initiative

[IndoCarib]

Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the NDA government’s ‘Clean India’ initiative, software major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Monday announced that it will earmark Rs 100 crore to be spent on school sanitation.

TCS, the country’s largest software services exporter, would finance hygienic sanitation facilities for girl students across 10,000 schools in the country, the company said in a statement. “This significant investment in school sanitation will help children, especially girl students, to participate in school education for a longer period of time and play a larger economic role in their communities,” the company said.

Commenting on the decision, N Chandrasekaran, CEO and MD said, “TCS is proud to support the Prime Minister’s Clean India initiative and would like to pledge a sum of Rs 100 crore towards it.”

“We firmly believe that achieving the mission of providing hygienic sanitation for girl students will have a tangible impact on the level of education achievement and development of India’s next generation,” Chandrasekaran added.

Stressing on the “dignity of women”, Modi had in his Independence Day speech urged parliamentarians and the corporate sector to help build separate toilets for girls in schools across the country by next year. “I want to start one work from today. There should be a toilet in all the schools of our country. A separate toilet for girls…it is only then our girls will not have to quit schools.

“I urge all MPs using MPLADS funds, spend your money in building toilets in schools. I also appeal to the corporate sector of our country. Under the Corporate Social Responsibility, whatever you are spending, give priority to building toilets in schools,” Modi had said.

TCS announces Rs 100 crore for PM’s ‘Clean India’ initiative | The Indian Express

 

[Trichy]

Good work by tata.. nation first..

 

[Echo_419]

Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the NDA government’s ‘Clean India’ initiative, software major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Monday announced that it will earmark Rs 100 crore to be spent on school sanitation.

TCS, the country’s largest software services exporter, would finance hygienic sanitation facilities for girl students across 10,000 schools in the country, the company said in a statement. “This significant investment in school sanitation will help children, especially girl students, to participate in school education for a longer period of time and play a larger economic role in their communities,” the company said.

Commenting on the decision, N Chandrasekaran, CEO and MD said, “TCS is proud to support the Prime Minister’s Clean India initiative and would like to pledge a sum of Rs 100 crore towards it.”

“We firmly believe that achieving the mission of providing hygienic sanitation for girl students will have a tangible impact on the level of education achievement and development of India’s next generation,” Chandrasekaran added.

Stressing on the “dignity of women”, Modi had in his Independence Day speech urged parliamentarians and the corporate sector to help build separate toilets for girls in schools across the country by next year. “I want to start one work from today. There should be a toilet in all the schools of our country. A separate toilet for girls…it is only then our girls will not have to quit schools.

“I urge all MPs using MPLADS funds, spend your money in building toilets in schools. I also appeal to the corporate sector of our country. Under the Corporate Social Responsibility, whatever you are spending, give priority to building toilets in schools,” Modi had said.

TCS announces Rs 100 crore for PM’s ‘Clean India’ initiative | The Indian Express

Reliance walo ko bhi kuch sekhna chaiye

 

[IndoCarib]

Joining the initiative, Bharti Foundation also said it will invest up to Rs 100 crore in constructing toilets in Ludhiana over the next three years in a bid to improve rural sanitation in Punjab.

The Foundation is a development arm of Bharti Enterprises which is headed by Sunil Mittal who hails from Ludhiana.

As part of this programme, the Foundation will invest up to Rs 100 crore in constructing toilets while reaching out to every rural household lacking such facilities in the district, over the next three years.

In addition to rural household sanitation, the 'Satya Bharti Abhiyan' will also invest in improving sanitation facilities in government schools in rural Ludhiana by building new toilets for girls, where no such facilities exist.

"It is our commitment that no single household or school in rural Ludhiana will be without a toilet by the end of this tenure," Bharti Foundation Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal said in a statement.
These initiatives will be supported by the two group companies - Bharti Airtel and Bharti Infratel.

TCS, Bharti pledge Rs 100 cr each for PM's Clean India initiative

Airtel joins too. Time for other big corporate houses like Reliance to chip in

 

[ranjeet]

Considering the quality of food prepared in the langars of Gurudwaras ... Govt must contact and provide financial help to them to provide in mid day meal to to Northern states atleast few states can be handled by the ISKON temples.

 

[Echo_419]

Considering the quality of food prepared in the langars of Gurudwaras ... Govt must contact and provide financial help to them to provide in mid day meal to to Northern states atleast few states can be handled by the ISKON temples.

Yeah quality of food in gudwaras is good they can be asked to helped in mid day meal thing

 

[paranoiarocks]

Considering the quality of food prepared in the langars of Gurudwaras ... Govt must contact and provide financial help to them to provide in mid day meal to to Northern states atleast few states can be handled by the ISKON temples.

I thought the same but has there been any occurrence in past where any religious body has been used by government ?

 

[ranjeet]

I thought the same but has there been any occurrence in past where any religious body has been used by government ?

don't know about that govt funded or not .. but clinton visited a mess which provided mid day meal to school kids.

 

[bhagat]

I thought the same but has there been any occurrence in past where any religious body has been used by government ?

iskon's Akshaya Patra Foundation doing a great job in providing the mid-day meal to 1.4 million children in every day

 

[blood]

TATA's have always been known for nation building .
ISKON is a great model , not just akshay patra even their temples are very well planned .

 

[dray]

Excellent gesture by Tata group, other large corporates should learn from it, especially the two Ambanis.