2. INTRODUCTION
● ITC incorporated on August 24,1910 with the name of IMPERIAL TOBACCO COMPANY
OF INDIA LIMITED
● Name change 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-
❏ Cigarettes and Tobacco
❏ Hotels
❏ Information technology
❏ Packaging
❏ Agriculture business
❏ FMCG products
❏ Lifestyle product ( wills lifestyle)
❏ Education & stationery and personal case
❏ Paperboards & speciality papers.
3. Different Businesses of ITC Limited.
● Cigarettes and leaf tobacco business (1910)
● Packaging and printing business (1925)
● Hotels Business (1925)
● Paperboards and speciality paper business 1979
● Surya Tobacco company
● Agriculture Business 1990
● ITC infotech india limited 2000
● Wills lifestyle 2000
4. CSR of ITC Limited
Environmental 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 though rainwater
harvesting than ITC’s net consumption)
● Solid waste recycling positive - from last 5 years
The Only company in the world to be Carbon positive , water positive & solid waste recycling
positive’
5. 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 1,25,000 hectares of barren land
creating 56 million person days of employment
● ITC’s watershed development programme brings water to over 90,000 hectares of land
which are dry and water - stressed areas
● Imparting education to farmers, women, children and to other un-education backward
classes.
6. CSR of ITC Limited
Watershed Development Programme
● Provide water to areas where there
is scarcity of water
● Plan cover over 1,00,000 hectares of
water - stressed lands
● Helps in building of water harvesting
water retaining structures in water
stressed areas
7. CSR of ITC Limited
E- Choupal rural digital - physical infrastructure
● Empower the even the smallest of farmers by given 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.
8. CSR of ITC Limited
Renewable energy
1. Renewable energy provides more than
38% of all the energy needs of ITC
2. 2. ITC has set up 14MW of wind energy
facility to provide power to the
packaging unit in Chennai.
3. Also Commissioned a 21 MW facility in
karnataka and 2.5 MW in Rajasthan
4. Investment are also being made to
wind energy facilities to provide
supplementary power to ITC hotels in
Chennai and Mumbai.
9. CSR of ITC Limited
Empowering the Differently
1. ITC gives fair chance to the differently
abled persons to earn a livelihood
2. ITC have employed over 100 differently
abled persons to jobs like
housekeeping, teleworking, bakeries
and also as musicians
3. The company provides these people
with special training and equipments to
deal with their day-to-day work
4. ITC have been awarded NCPEDP Shell
Helen Keller Award to their hotels for
their outstanding work
10. CSR of ITC Limited
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
❏ It helps to augment green cover, conserves natural resources, reduce wastage
11. CSR of ITC Limited
Women Empowerment Programme
1. This programme has benefitted tp
more than 4 lakh rural women to
become self sufficient
2. This programme imports education to
rural women so that a better society
can be made
3. Has created self help groups of women
which have now become self sufficient
by self micro financing
4. Imparting education to the children
thought the local educated women
12. CSR of ITC Limited
Social Farm and Forestry
1. Helps the farmers and tribals to
produce plantations on their
wastelands
2. Provides the farmers with cloned
seeds which grow better and
produce better in harsh conditions
3. Provides farmers with know - how to
convert their wasteland into a
plantation producing land.
13. 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 thought core values so that
every part of the society have the chance and the accessibility to the basic
needs which the rural india does not have thought imparting assistance
and education to uplift them from poverty and misery these people have
been facing from a very long time