Steria India CSR efforts set new industry benchmarks

Businesswire India

Posted: Friday, Feb 06, 2009 at 1159 hrs IST
Updated: Friday, Feb 06, 2009 at 1159 hrs IST


Font Size

Print

Feedback

Email

Discuss

New Delhi: Steria India, a leading provider of IT-driven business services, was conferred the prestigious "Best Corporate Social Responsibility Practice” award by NASSCOM Foundation, Bombay Stock Exchange Limited and Times Foundation under the aegis of the "Social and Corporate Governance Awards – 2008”. The award validates Steria India’s overall focus on being a responsible corporate and giving back to the ‘Community’ which it recognizes as a very important stakeholder in its business.

Elaborating on Steria’s CSR focus, Gayathri Mohan, VP, CSR - India, Steria said, “We inherently believe that the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) should be an integral focus area for organizations who are looking at new and innovative ways to contribute to the communities they operate in, going beyond just helping immediate customers and shareholders. For us at Steria this sense of broader responsibility for communities we operate in is reflected in all our community engagement programs today and underlines our mission of enabling underprivileged communities to become self reliant and explore sustainable livelihood options.”

The main focus of Steria India CSR campaign is Education for children from marginalized communities in semi-urban and rural areas. The thrust is on providing primary and secondary school education coupled with computer literacy and career counselling. Steria is also collaborating with the government, district administration and industry bodies across different locations for on-ground implementation of its CSR program.

Steria is also member of the 1% club, wherein member companies contribute 1% of their profits for socially relevant causes. The company also encourages employees to do their bit for the community and under its “Matching Funds” scheme; Steria is committed to match monetary contribution from employees towards CSR initiatives.

More from Business Wire

Discuss this story on expressindia forums

Post Comments

Comments: (Limit 3,000 characters)
Name
Message
Email ID
Subject
TERMS OF USE:
The views, opinions and comments posted are your, and are not endorsed by this website. You shall be solely responsible for the comment posted here. The website reserves the right to delete, reject, or otherwise remove any views, opinions and comments posted or part thereof. You shall ensure that the comment is not inflammatory, abusive, derogatory, defamatory &/or obscene, or contain pornographic matter and/or does not constitute hate mail, or violate privacy of any person (s) or breach confidentiality or otherwise is illegal, immoral or contrary to public policy. Nor should it contain anything infringing copyright &/or intellectual property rights of any person(s).
I agree to the terms of use.

Comments
Flowers & Cakes DeliveryExpress Classifieds
Post and view free classifieds ad
Express Astrology
Know what's in the stars for you