INTRODUCTION
ITC incorporated on August 24,1910 with the name of IMPERIAL TOBACCO COMPANY of INDIA LIMITED
Name changed to “INDIA TOBACCO COMPANY Limited” in the year 1970 and then to “I.T.C. Limited” in the year
1974.
The company has a wide business portfolio of the following:-
1. Cigarettes and Tobacco
2. Hotels
3. Information technology.
4. Packaging.
5. Agriculture business.
6. FMCG products.
7. Lifestyle products (Wills Lifestyle).
8. Education & stationery and personal care.
9. Paperboards & specialty papers.
Different Businesses of ITC Limited.
Cigarettes and Leaf Tobacco business(1910)
Packaging and Printing business(1925)
Hotels Business(1975)
Paperboards and speciality paper business(1979)
Surya Tobacco Company(1985)
Agriculture Business(1990)
ITC Infotech India Limited(2000)
Wills Lifestyle(2000)
CSR of ITC Limited
“The only company in the world to be carbon positive, water positive & solid
waste recycling positive”
ENVIORNMENTAL INITIATIVE
Carbon Positive-7 years in a row(sequestering/storing
twice the amount of CO2 that the company emits)
Water Positive-10 years in a row(creating/storing water 2
times through rainwater harvesting than ITC’s net
consumption)
Solid Waste recycling Positive-from last 5 years.
SOCIAL INITIATIVE
Generates livelihood for 5 million people.
ITC’s e-Choupal benefits over 4 million farmers.
ITC’s Farm and forestry Initiative have greened over
125000 hectares of barren land creating 56 million
person days of employment.
ITC’s Watershed Development programme brings water
to over 90000 hectares of land which are dry and water-
stressed areas.
Imparting education to farmers, women, children and to
other un-educated backward classes.
CSR of ITC Limited
Ranked no.1 in CSR for consecutive 2nd year in the category “MOST ACTIVE
IN CSR” by “Nielsen Corporate Image Monitor 2012-13”
It is an acknowledgement of the scale and impact of its sustainability
initiatives which have created large scale livelihoods and augmented
natural resources. ITC's businesses and value chains have created
sustainable livelihoods for 5 million people, many of whom belong to the
poorest sections of society.
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Watershed Development Programme
Provides water to the areas where
there is scarcity of water.
Plan covers over 100000 hectares of
water-stressed lands.
Helps in building of water harvesting,
water retaining structures in water-
stressed areas.
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E-Choupal rural digital-physical Infrastructure
Empowers the even the smallest of farmers by
giving them relevant information upon:-
1. Fair market prices of their produce.
2. Weather information.
3. Techniques to enhance farm-production.
4. Information on seed quality and what they should
buy.
5. Type of fertilizer and or manure to be used.
6. Better accessibility to the market.
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Renewable Energy
Renewable energy provides more
than 38% of all the enery needs of ITC.
ITC has setup 14MW of wind energy
facility to provide power to the
packaging unit in Chennai.
Also commissioned a 21MW facility in
Karnataka and 2.5 MW in Rajasthan.
Investments are also being made to
wind energy facilities to provide
supplementary power to ITC’s hotels In
Chennai and Mumbai.
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Empowering the Differently abled
ITC gives fair chance to the differently
abled persons to earn a livelihood.
ITC have employed over 100 differently
abled persons to jobs like house-keeping,
teleworking, bakeries,and also as
musicians.
The company provides these people with
special training and equipments to deal
with their day-to-day work.
ITC have been awarded “NCPEDP Shell
Helen Keller Award” to their hotelsfor their
outstanding work.
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WoW-Wealth out of Waste Programme
Promotes resource conservation and recycling of waste.
Educates and creates awareness about the need of “Reduce-Reuse-Recycle”
Provides recyclable materials like glass, paper, plastic to the industries.
Operational in Chennai, Hyderabad, Banglore, Cochin, Coimbatore, Madurai, Trichi.
It helps to augument green cover, conserves natural resources, reduce wastage.
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Women Empowerment Programme
This programme has benefitted to more than
400000 rural women to become self sufficient.
This programme imparts education to rural
women so that a better society can be made.
Has created self-help groups of women which
have now become self-sufficient by Self-micro
financing.
Imparting education to the children through the
local educated women.
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Social Farm and Forestry
Helps the farmers and tribals to produce
plantations on their wastelands.
Provides the farmers with cloned seeds
which grow better and produce better in
harsh conditions.
Provides farmers with know-how to
convert their wasteland into a plantation
producing land.
Conclusion
ITC being a very large company and working across different sectors of
business is actively engaged in CSR activities having a vision to serve a larger
National Purpose of Nation building through core values so that every part of
the society have the chance and the accessibility to the basic needs which
the rural India doesn’t have through imparting assistance and education to
uplift them from poverty and misery these people have been facing from a
very long time.