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Our commitment

The term corporate sustainability is of relatively recent vintage. Not so the philosophy of social responsibility that underlines the Tata way of conducting its businesses. The multitude of social development and environment initiatives Tata has nurtured from its earliest days flows from a wellspring of voluntary, as opposed to obligatory, commitment

		Tata Council for Community Initiatives The Tata Council for Community Initiatives (TCCI) is a unique initiative that lends structure to the Tata group's approach of sustainable development while driving its community engagement and improvement programmes.

		Company initiatives The Tata tradition in community development has, since the earliest days of the group's history, been defined by its core values. It never was charity for its own sake or, as group Founder Jamsetji Tata put it, "patchwork philanthropy".

		Tata trusts The Tata trusts support an assortment of causes, institutions and individuals in a wide variety of areas.

		Institutions The national institutes of learning and research that Tata helped establish and continues to support.

		Climate change The Tata group is facing up to the challenge of climate change and making it integral to its processes. Coordinating and directing the climate change efforts of the group's companies are some of the senior-most Tata leaders

		Affirmative action The Tata Affirmative Action Programme commits Tata companies to exercising positive discrimination in employing personnel from historically disadvantaged communities and in engaging them as business partners, without sacrificing merit or quality

		Feature stories A list of articles on Tata's corporate sustainability initiatives