The Background
PTC being amongst the leading corporate group in India visualizes meaningful, sustainable CSR programs, positively impacting lives of the marginalized section of society and effectively contributing towards India’s development goals. In tune with the Schedule VII of the Companies Act, community is the focal point of CSR activities and the aim is integrating CSR into the core operations of the Company.
In line with the corporate social commitment, PTC has established “PTC Foundation Trust” in October 2016 to professionally and effectively undertake the activities pursuant to the CSR vision of PTC and the group companies.
Logo and descriptive narrative of PFT
The Logo Colours (Sunrise Orange & leaf green) are the house colours of PTC Group Companies. Leaf Green represents our concern for the environment and community. Sunrise Orange represents the eternal source of energy. Together the two colours represent the harmony between the energy of business enterprise and its symbiotic relationship with the communities that its businesses serve.
The Orange part of the logo signifies PTC Group as a live being; joyous and aspiring to expand its presence in every aspect of communities and their lifestyles. This part is extended in harmony with the green part of the Logo which represents the needs and beliefs of the communities. The extended shape of the green part stands for commitment to the communitys sustainable growth. The uniform and transparent space between the two parts of the Logo represent confidence, faith and trust which allows both parts to co-exist as a whole; in harmony.
The tag line empowering Community with a capital P articulates our link to the power industry and our mindfulness of the responsibility towards the community that sets no boundaries on the entreprenencial spirit of PTC Group.
The synergistic relationship between the communities and our business operations lead us to include various societal objectives like capacity building, womens empowerment, health & sanitation and distributed energy in our CSR programmes.
The Focus
PTC Foundation has been engaged in undertaking a wide range of CSR activities with focus on Women Empowerment, Girl Child Education and their Empowerment, skilling youth and farmers, all from socially and economically disadvantaged communities. The programs are also aimed towards promoting Renewable Energy (Solar Power), supporting Differently Abled Persons, public health and hygiene and Empowering Farmers towards livelihood improvement.
All the above activities are targeted towards the economically weaker sections of the society to fulfill the social commitment of PTC and also enhance their Corporate Image as a company committed towards fulfilling the felt needs of the relatively disadvantaged sections of the Society.
Extra Curricular Activities
CSR Activities
The important initiatives which have been taken by PTC India through the PTC Foundation is briefly given below:
- More than 100 women are associated with this noble cause and are working as Mobilisers who further propagate their acquired skills and confidence amongst other women in that area. Their families are also benefited in this process as it is said that a women empowered and educated empowers the entire family.
- Under this initiative a major benefit goes to more than 200 girls for their after school hours coaching and also overall development to make them confident enough to face the society.
- PTC has also encouraged three meritorious girls from this section to study in higher class i.e. 11th and 12th by sponsoring their expenses in private school.
Trained 300 youths in basic trades like mobile repair, AC repair, refrigerator repair etc. in the project area spanning 11 villages. Five IOT (An Internet of things) based Sustainable Community Drinking Water systems (Compact size) has been installed to provide 24/7 safe drinking water. Installed sanitary vending machine and organized health camp and sanitary drive. “Social Education & Environment Development Society” (SEEDS) was implementing partner in this project.
In partnership with EEF, Noida digitalized 9 Army Goodwill School (AGS) with 5 digital classrooms in each school. set up 5 digital classrooms. Expected beneficiaries are more than 300.
Through Cankids Hospital Support Unit (CHSU)” at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital (IRCH), AIIMS, New Delhi provided medicines, guidance and holistic care and support in a systematic and cognizant manner to 2400 underprivileged children.
In partnership with PRERANA & Jamura Robotics empowered girl students in rural areas in digital education to uplift their social status. Two fully digital computer literacy labs in two government schools in Karnataka with six pre-packed course modules of digital literary curriculum were delivered for the benefit of more than 300 girl students.
In partnership with SM Sehgal Foundation provided modern agriculture equipment and helped in installation of solar irrigation system in rural areas of Bihar. More than 6000 farmers were benefitted.