ITC Limited is an Indian conglomerate whose businesses include FMCG, cigarettes, hotels, paperboards and specialty papers, packaging, agri-business, and information technology. ITC focuses its CSR efforts on initiatives related to social and farm forestry, e-choupal, health and sanitation, primary education, livestock development, renewable energy, and integrated waste management. In 2018-19, ITC spent ₹306.55 crores on CSR programs benefiting millions of people across India through skills training, sustainable livelihoods, access to healthcare, education, and environmental conservation.

1. CSR ACTIVITIES OF ITC LIMITED
❖ Estd. as ‘Indian Tobacco
Company’ in 1970
❖ Later transformed to ‘ITC
Limited’ in 1974
❖ Area served -
Indian Subcontinent
Gulf countries
❖ Products -
FMCG, Cigarettes, Apparel,
Paperboards, Paper, Hotels,
Packaging and Agri Business
❖ Total revenue as of 2018 -
₹47,362 Crores

2. CSR POLICY OF ITC
❖ Recognizing that business enterprises are economic organs of society
and draw on societal resources.
❖ It is ITC's belief that a company's performance must be measured by
its Triple Bottom Line contribution to build economic, social and
environmental capital towards enhancing societal sustainability.
PEOPLE PLANET PROFIT

3. v
GEOGRAPHICAL
AND THEMATIC
OUTREACH
Social and Farm
Forestry
E-choupal
Health and Sanitation
Primary Education
Livestock Development
Green Temple
Renewable Energy

4. DETAILS OF CSR EXPENDITURE
2016-17 2017-18 2018-19
Net Profit 13763.29 14549 15347.5
Expenditure on
CSR
275.27 290.98 306.55
Actual
Expenditure
275.27 290.98 306.95

5. E-CHOUPAL
❖ Empowering 4 million farmers.
❖ Enhancing productivity and Market Linkages.
❖ 6500 e-choupals installed.
❖ Eliminates wasteful intermediation.
❖ Village internet kiosks managed by farmers.
❖ Real time information and customized knowledge.
❖ Align output with market demand and secure quality and
productivity.

6. WOMEN ECONOMIC
EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMME
❖Creating over 64,600 sustainable
livelihood for women.
❖Special focus on supporting women in
extreme poverty.
❖Building over 35,900 individual
household toilets.
❖Contributes directly to Swachh
Bharat Mission.
PRIMARY EDUCATION INITIATIVE
❖Creating supportive and children-friendly school environment.
❖Supporting children to keep up and return to regular schools.
❖Benefiting over 6,98,000 children.
HEALTH AND
SANITATION
PROGRAMME

7. LIVESTOCK DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMME
SKILL AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING
INITIATIVE
❖Plays an active role in building and upgrading skills of youth.
❖Promotes entrepreneurship.
❖Nearly 64,000 youth trained.
❖Genetic improvement of cattle.
❖Alternate Livelihood to farmers.
❖Covering over 17,30,000 milch animals.

8. SOCIAL AND FARM FORESTRY
❖ Tree to textbook value chain.
❖ Delivers on all 3 dimensions of Triple Bottom
Line.
❖ Registered in Andhra Pradesh under UN’s clean
development mechanism.
❖ Created 114,428 hectares of greenland generating
51.48 million days of employment.
❖ Soil and Moisture conservation model of ITC
reversed land degradation.
WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMME
❖ Assists farmers in moisture
stressed areas, covering over
236,000 hectares.
❖ Total number of water harvesting
structures to 7,425.
❖ Major thrust to sustainable
agricultural base.
❖ Number of plots grew three folds
in one year.
❖ Farmer Field Schools increased
from 37 to 162 in one year.

9. RENEWABLE ENERGY
INTEGRATED WASTE
MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
❖ “WOW” INITIATIVE
➢ Covers over 77 lakh people
across the country.
➢ Recycles over 99% of waste
generated across 10 states.
❖ “GREEN TEMPLE” INITIATIVE
➢ 3 of Tamil Nadu’s eminent
temples turning their premises
into zero-garbage zones.
❖ 45% of total energy consumed
at ITC are met from renewable
resources.
❖ Several ITC’s factories meet
close to 100% of their electricity
requirements from renewable
energy.
❖ More than 60% of total
electrical energy demand of
ITC’s super-premium luxury
hotels is met through renewable
energy resources.

10. SUGGESTIONS
More number of kiosks and better accessibility of
kiosks for farmers
Empowering prisoners.