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Affirmative Action

Tata Teleservices believes that for accelerating growth and competitiveness in the rapidly developing economy, organizations must promote and expand income-generation opportunities for all sections of society. Within this framework, Tata Teleservices Limited commits to Affirmative Action for social equity for the disadvantaged sections of the society in the workplace.

TTL recognizes that diversity in the workplace positively impacts business. For the socially-disadvantaged, the company takes steps to create equal employment opportunities.

TTL also undertakes initiatives to increase the employability / income-generation potential for the socially-disadvantaged communities.

TTL will encourage development of business entrepreneurship from members of the socially-disadvantaged communities through their participation in the company’s distribution channels and other business arenas on the basis of equal merit.

TTL will undertake to provide scholarship and help materially and through various other initiatives like voluntary coaching, mentoring of meritorious and deserving students across the country. Affirmative action initiatives will conform to the Corporate Sustainability objectives of TTL and aim at developing the disadvantaged sections of society.

TTL regularly reports progress on Affirmative Actions in its Annual Report.

 

N Srinath
Managing Director



Governing Council


Rationale behind Affirmative Action

Rationale behind Affirmative Action


Broad Categories under Affirmative Action


  • Education: To augment efforts of SC/ST students directly in pursuing education thru’ scholarship, providing books/academic assistance etc or support agencies who are pursuing these initiatives.
  • Employment: Everything being equal, provide employment opportunities either OnRoll or thru’ associated agencies.
  • Employability: Make the people from SC/ST people more employable in the job market by providing them training on academics as well as attitudinal for confidence building, counseling, on-job learning thru’ guided projects, /supplementing training efforts by agencies who are expert in this area.
  • Entrepreneurship: Create opportunities for people from SC/ST Communities to become entrepreneurs duly assisted by skills of running the business and also financially/micro finance or subsidized equipments/infrastructure and handholding for a small period of time.


Governance on Affirmative Action

Rationale behind Affirmative Action

Rationale behind Affirmative Action



Initiatives


Initiatives taken to provide Employment:

  • Total SC/ST Trainees hired from 2008 Batch till date : 72 / 710 (10%)
  • Employees hired in M6 to M8 (Jr. Mgmt Cadre) from 2008 till date : 62 (2.5% of the total employees hired in this category)
  • 79 / 1735 (4.5% Employees both in FTC & pbpc rolls in COCO stores are from SC/ST Category.
  • 10% (16 out of 60) Candidates trained thru’ STRIVE & employed as DST in rural areas of TN.
  • 27% (29 out of 104) Youth from socially backward segment trained on cust service, selling skills & computers for 90 days in association with Dr. Reddy’s ASHA Lab & employed in pbpc & offroll in TTSL.

Initiatives taken to provide Employability:

  •  6 Merit Scholarships (2 per year) given meritorious SC/ST MBA Students of SITM @ Rs. 75,000/- per scholarship.
  • 30 Merit Scholarship (10 per year) given for students selected thru' FAEA (Foundation for academic Excellence and Access) @ 70,000/- per scholarship.
  • 12 Merit Silver Scholarship to ITITI - Information Technology Institute for Tribes of India, Dehradun (6 students per year for Rs. 1 lac/ year)
  • Sponsored hostel fees for SC/ST girl child (Rachna) who joined National Law college towards hostel fee reimbursement (Rs. 30,000/- given each year for last 3 years).
  • 212 Summer/Vocational Trainees from SC/ST category trained in TTSL from 2008 Onwards

Initiatives taken to provide Education :

  • An expenditure of Rs. 2.35 Lacs made towards facilitating & encouraging education amongst SC/ST children in schools thru’ activities like:
    1. Distribution of Books & other school support facilities to the students of Nesvad Village Primary School.
    2. Providing Exam pads, books, pens and pencils provided to 150 students from Govt Hostel for SC/ST Children at Warangal.
    3. 30 SC/ST meritorious students given the pullovers (School Uniform) from S D Girls College, Meerut.
    4. Distribution of book & library infrastructure to SC/ST children from ‘Primary Pathshala School in village Paitepur in UP - East.
    5. Sponsoring school fees  to  SC/ST students school students of Sahyogh School Assam, SC/ST Physically disabled school students -Dwar Jingkyren School Shillong,
    6. Distributing books to 50 SC/ST school Children across 20 Govt Schools in Assam, Schools books to SC/ST students in 35 Govt Schools Meghalaya covering 50 students.
    7. Books & Stationary distribution to SC/ST students in Girls Govt High School Reshamgarh, Srinagar.
    8. Distributed two PCs for SC/ST dominated St.Joseph Orphanage and Lower primary school - Trichur.
    9. 8 Workshops on Personality Development covering 150 SC/ST School Children & 70 SC/ST teachers Conducted in Gujrat, J&K, UP (W) & MPCG.
    10. 1 day personality development program conducted thru’ ASRM for all SC/ST FTC Employees.
    11. Giving scholarship to 4 Best Performing SC/ST Fixed Term Contract Employees for pursuing a distance learning course thru' IGNOU or recognized institute.

Initiatives taken to provide Entrepreneurship

  • 534 PCOs given to people of SC/ST community with equipment suitably subsidized by TTSL. Expenditure of ~ 7.5 Lacs.
  • 54 Franchisees given to people of SC/ST community spending 3.75 Lacs from the company towards subsidizing the store infrastructure.


Picture Gallery


Andhra Pradesh

TTSL AP reached out to under privileged sections of society and distributed PCs to them to enable them with employability options.

Rajasthan



Gujarat

Under Affirmative Action Gujarat Circle distributed PCOs to 13 under privileged people on 5th Oct. 2010 at the PO office on ground floor, Gujarat Bhavan.

Rajasthan



Karnataka

Karnataka Circle distributed PCO Devices (CCB) for the SC and ST Category beneficiaries as a part of Affirmative Action. The TTSL team chose to empower people from the rural sector.

Special Gifts were given to the SC/ST beneficiaries by Head PCO Business

karnataka



MPCG

We encourage SC/ST students to enter mainstream society by giving them scholarships for their education.

MPCG



NESA

Sponsorship to SC/ST Students - TTSL NESA has sponsored the tution fees of six such students from “SAHYOG” which is a school from Street & Working Children based on merit so that they get all the required support for future education and upliftment.

NESA


Computer education and personality development classes to under privilege and rural children (Project Vidhya)

In an attempt to train and empower under privileged children, Team TTSL NESA has inititated voluntary coaching classes after developing study materials in-house with the help of summer trainees & staff members.
The training covered various aspects of Spoken English, Personality Development, Basic Computer Education & moral science and has benefited more than 300 children. Additionally, it has helped engage the staff members in contributing to the society and generated a sense of belonging.

14th November, Children’s Day was celebrated in Assam with 50 under privilege street dwellers belonging to SC/ST community at “Sukleswar Park” in the city.

NESA has inititated this project in the month of April 2010 with a target of distributing 500 PCOs in entire NE to physically challenged / physically challenged SCST group.
Coverage till Sept. 2010

  • Assam – Out of 159 total F C done, 20 nos. covers SC/ST Group
  • NE  -  Out of 87 total F C done, 76 nos.  coverage SC/ST Group


Punjab

Develop/Educating housekeeping boys from SC/ST category by imparting basics of computers in Circle office.  This effort enhances employability in MIS/Tele calling activities under business associates/PBPC Model in TTSL in near future.

Punjab



Rajasthan

Sahyog School is an education institution supporting education and vocational training for children from SC/ST & Socioeconomic backward.

Rajasthan