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Tata Infotech is a member of the TCCI (The Tata Council for Community Initiatives), which was formed to serve as a central organization to spearhead the Tata group's united effort to widen its community development program.

The TCCI approach is to involve company employees to the advantage of the community by using the core competence of the company the employee is working in.

IT is Tata Infotech's core competence so projects which Tata Infotech take up are in the area of IT education.

Tata Infotech volunteer members impart training to teachers who in turn teach students.

Tata Infotech has donated PCs, printers, OHP and air-conditioners as part of the infrastructure. Already, lives of students have been touched.

Some of the computer education programs being undertaken by Tata Infotech:

Mumbai:

1439 BMC school students are being imparted basic computer education in partnership with the NGO - Each one teach one, at the BMC school, Tata compound, Andheri.

Tata Infotech has launched a 'Train The Teachers' program for BMC school teachers in partnership with the BMC. 180 BMC teachers from 80 BMC schools are trained at our education centers.

Tata Infotech has helped to set up and run a computer centre to impart computer education to the street children of Vatsalya Foundation (Vatsalya is an NGO, which runs a shelter for street children). The Tata Infotech Education Services Division has designed the curriculum and the Customer Support Services Division of Tata Infotech has installed the computer infrastructure. A Tata Infotech group of volunteers will impart Computer education initially, after which the trained Vatsalya staff will take over the activity.

Street children at Vatsalya take counsel from a professionally trained clinical psychologist from the Tata Infotech HR department The counseling sessions aim to make the children better citizens by delving into behavior patterns and addressing their emotional needs. The sessions help mainstream the children so that they can compete with their contemporaries in society.

In an arrangement with the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Tata Infotech holds computer classes for underprivileged children after school hours.

Tata Infotech has organized workshops for senior citizens under the aegis of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) to impart computer education.

850 students and 200 teachers from Zilla Parishad schools and Vasti schools attended a workshop for 'Computer Awareness and Orientation' which was organized by Tata Infotech in collaboration with 'Meljol' and Maharashtra Pratharmik Shikshan Parishad.

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Chennai

Tata Infotech has supported Computer Education at a corporation school.

A computer training Program for teachers of the Spastic Society, and Ramakrishna mission student home, was undertaken for teaching the underprivileged.

Those who wish to volunteer may get in touch with Sanjay Mitra, the regional co-ordinator for TCCI, and co-ordinator of the Tata Infotech community initiatives at : [email protected]

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