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Pankh. Affirmative Action. Tata Group Affirmative Action Program. The Tata AA Program (TAAP) is aligned with the framework on AA prepared by the Confederation of Indian Industry, which focuses on four areas of development: employment, employability, entrepreneurship and education.

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  1. Pankh Affirmative Action

  2. Tata Group Affirmative Action Program The Tata AA Program (TAAP) is aligned with the framework on AA prepared by the Confederation of Indian Industry, which focuses on four areas of development: employment, employability, entrepreneurship and education. We are committed exercising positive discrimination in creating livelihoods for personnel from historically disadvantaged communities and in employing and engaging them as business partners, without sacrificing merit or quality. EMPLOYABILITY EMPLOY

  3. Tata Capital Affirmative Action Policy Tata Capital believes in social equity. The Company adheres to the principle of equal opportunity, irrespective of caste, whether in recruitment or career advancement within the organization. The Company is also committed to directly conducting or supporting initiatives to ensure an equal footing for socially and economically disadvantaged sections in the country at large, and specifically the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities. Towards the ultimate goal of enhancing their employability and entrepreneurship abilities, Tata Capital is committed to creating and promoting access to quality education and technical skills and competencies for members of the SC/ST communities. To enable these communities to overcome the social discrimination that has prevented them from realizing their potential, Tata Capital will assist members from these communities for employment opportunities and as business associates, with merit, cost and quality being equal. 

  4. Governance Structure

  5. AA Focus Areas Positive Discrimination Investment in Human Capital Bring them at par Financial and Social Inclusion Investments related to fundamental needs such as education to offset the historical disadvantages faced by the AA communities Financial independence and sustainable livelihoods Soft-skills development and training to bring AA communities at par with the mainstream • Educate • Employability • Employ • Entrepreneurship • Sponsorship of education • Sponsorship of special skills (vocational training, soft skills) • Financial literacy • Centres of excellence • Employment in industry • Employment at Tata Capital • Vendors for Tata Capital • Special finance offering from Tata Capital Funding, Partnering, Volunteering

  6. AA Initiatives

  7. Focus Area: • Education • Employability • Employment • Entrepreneurship

  8. Focus Area | Education • Location: We will focus our education effort on AdivasiAshramshalas • (1st-12th Standard) • Why: Because, the AdivasiAshramshalas is a perfect setting that caters to • both our CS and the Tata group AA effort. Because AA communities are • historically socially disadvantaged, therefore our effort is to bring them at • par, enabling them to compete better • Areas of Intervention: • Basic Education (1st – 12th Standard) • Financial literacy • Infrastructure support • Health & Hygiene • Capacity Building (Soft skills, Computer skills, English reading and writing)

  9. Cluster Development Model Magic Bus: Overall development through sports Toybank: Learning through play Education Loans Personal/ Business Loans CERE: Solar powered Computer Labs Ashramshalas (Cluster) Empowered Students Higher Education Professional Courses Financial Independence Vocational Training Employment Pratham: Learning level English through local language Basic Computer course Vocational training Marathi Vidnyan Parishad: Science Lab 1. We will adopt clusters in proximity to our business starting with Maharashtra 2. The students from these clusters will fulfill our Employment requirement

  10. Focus Area | Education Cluster Development of Adivasi Ashramshalas: • Making Vatsalya Ashramshala a pilot project, we propose to adopt 2 more educational institutes and assist them in holistic development for their students • Our interventions will include: providing infrastructure, soft skills and all round development of the students • Proposed Associations: • Pragati Pratishthan (School for Hearing and Speech impaired children and Ashramshala) • Toybank (learning through play and setting up Toy library) • Magic Bus (All round personality development through sports) • Pratham (Assessment of learning levels, introducing English through the local language and Financial literacy) • Marathi Vidnyan Parishad (setting up science labs) • CERE (Setting up solar powered computer labs) • Employment based vocational training projects at Tata Group level post 10+2

  11. Vatsalya Prathamik Ashramshala The Vatsalya Prathamic Ashramshala is a residential school for tribal students in Chabke Talawali village, Vikramgadh district. Our partner NGO in this project is the Rotary Club of Bombay Sea Face The school has 600 students (Std.I to Std.X) We started our support to this school by building a science lab for them Subsequently, we extended support to teaching and career counselling The first batch of students appeared for the Std. X examination in 2012.

  12. 2017 Vision for Vatsalya Ashramshala Successful vocational training / career options for all students 100% Result in Std. X In house vocational training facility Centre of Excellence

  13. Vatsalya Ashramshala, 2013

  14. Focus Area | Education (Financial Literacy) • Definition: Financial literacy is the ability to understand how money works • in the world, how someone manages to earn or make it, how that person • manages it, how he/she invests it (turn it into more) and how that person • donates it to help others. (Source: Wikipedia) • Location: All AdivasiAshramshalas • Areas of Intervention: Financial literacy • Partnership with: Pratham

  15. Pankh Scholarships • The Pankh Scholarships are given to students nominated by employees • Tata Capitalsponsorsdeserving students from the AA Communities who have: • Secured admission to a professional course, based on merit • Are financially deserving • Have a valid caste certificate (or can get one made asap) • Employees are invited to nominate any deserving candidate they know of who requires a sponsorship, through an e-mail • The sponsorship is only for course and exam fees – in case any other funding is required (text books etc.), it is looked aton a case to case basis • The casesare presented to the CS&AA committee for final approval • The employee nominating the student is the mentor. • The students aretracked for results in their exams and for final placements as well, once they successfully complete their course. • 7 students sponsored so far.

  16. Thank You

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