New Delhi, July 21, 2025: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT services firm, reported a total CSR expenditure of ₹960 crore in the financial year 2024–25, exceeding its mandated obligation of ₹954 crore under Section 135 of the Companies Act. The amount includes ₹949 crore towards CSR projects and ₹11 crore allocated for administrative overheads.
The company’s CSR initiatives, as outlined in its Integrated Annual Report 2024–25, reflect a broad-based engagement strategy that aligns with national priorities such as digital skilling, rural entrepreneurship, foundational education, and women’s empowerment. Over the year, TCS claims to have impacted more than 14.75 million lives globally through its programs.
Education and Skilling as Core Focus Areas
A significant portion of TCS’s CSR efforts continues to be directed towards equipping young people and educators with 21st-century skills. The Ignite My Future (IMF) program reached 2.67 lakh students and 5,857 educators across six continents, promoting computational thinking and foundational digital literacy. Separately, the go Innovate Together (goIT) initiative engaged over 81,000 students across 50 countries, half of whom were girls, and nearly 80% from underrepresented communities.
In India, the Youth Employment Program (YEP), now in its 15th year, facilitated employment for 1,156 candidates from rural and disadvantaged backgrounds. Since inception, TCS reports the program has upskilled over 1.85 lakh youth and facilitated placements for more than 43,000 of them.
Empowering Rural Entrepreneurs
The company’s BridgeIT initiative supported the emergence of 1,712 active digital entrepreneurs—88% of them women—across 4,457 villages. These ‘digipreneurs’ reportedly provided essential last-mile services to over 7.4 lakh rural beneficiaries. In FY25 alone, the program onboarded 1,400 women entrepreneurs from Bihar, Jharkhand, and Rajasthan.
Meanwhile, Literacy as a Service (LaaS), TCS’s two-decade-old adult literacy program, reached over 4.12 lakh marginalized women this year. The company partnered with the Andhra Pradesh government to provide functional and digital literacy to nearly 4 lakh women learners.
Volunteerism and Tech-Based Social Interventions
TCS employees contributed 8.93 million hours of volunteer service under its HOPE (Hours of Purpose by Employees) initiative, impacting 12.2 million lives globally. The Tech4HOPE program, focused on digital enablement of NGOs, offered pro bono digital services to 61 non-profits, generating an estimated social value of $7.43 million in FY25.
TCS also strengthened its Business with Purpose and Digital Empowers platforms to build CSR collaborations with clients and other Tata group companies. Through these programs, the company worked on digital equity, women’s STEM education, and rural entrepreneurship.
Alignment with Strategic CSR Themes
The company’s CSR portfolio is guided by four broad themes: 21st-century education, employment through skilling, delivery of services in underserved districts, and enabling a green economy. Across these themes, it has structured eight focus areas including K–12 education, digital entrepreneurship, healthcare access, and sustainability.
TCS’s expansive and tech-driven CSR strategy demonstrates the growing role of large corporates in addressing social inequities through scalable models. As regulatory expectations around impact assessment and transparency evolve, deeper disclosures on long-term outcomes and effectiveness will be key in establishing the credibility of such flagship initiatives.
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