COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF

SUSTAINABILITY AND ANNUAL REPORTS OF

TCS AND INFOSYS

Submitted By:

Kamlesh Chaudhary (G011)

Vikram Bhadauria (G009)
Sankalp Srivastava (G058)
Siddhartha Maridi (G001)
Gaurang Manek (G037)
IT SECTOR IN INDIA

Indian IT's growing market size Market

• India’s technology and BPM sector (including hardware) Capitalization
is estimated to have generated US$ 146 billion in revenue
during FY15 compared to US$ 118 billion in FY14,
implying a growth rate of 23.72 per cent
$71.6 Billion
• The contribution of the IT sector to India’s GDP rose to
approximately 9.5 per cent in FY15 from 1.2 per cent in
FY98

• The top six firms contribute around 36 per cent to the

total industry revenue, indicating the market is fairly $37.4 Billion
competitive, with TCS being the leader accounting for
about 10.1 per cent
 WHAT SUSTAINABILITY MEANS TO THEM ?
• Business imperatives and strategy
The strategic objective is to build a sustainable
organization that remains relevant to the agenda of
their clients, while generating profitable growth for
the investors.
• Stakeholder engagement
The stakeholder consultation process is used to
support the highest governance body’s
identification and management of economic,
environmental, and social impacts, as well as risks
and opportunities.
• Social Responsibility
Contributing to the world around the organization
by reaching out to communities in the regions
where they operate.
• Environmental stewardship
To realize their vision of building sustainable
ecosystems, Infosys identified energy, emissions,
water, and waste as material aspects to focus on as a
part of their environmental sustainability efforts.
• Sustainable Operations: TCS aims to run
their operations in a socially and
environmentally sustainable manner. For
instance, a large portion of the infrastructure
for their operations in this decade is being
built or yet to be built. They aim to build
these as greener infrastructure.
• Corporate Social Responsibility: The
guiding principle of TCS’ CSR programmes
is “Impact through Empowerment.” TCS has
a diverse range of global CSR initiatives in
the areas of education, health and
environment: volunteering, funding and pro
bono leveraging of its IT capabilities.
• Solutions for our Customers: With a
dedicated eco-sustainability team working
across industry verticals, TCS aims to provide
next-generation sustainability services to its
customers. It integrates sustainability into its
business strategies and unlock environmental
efficiencies in their entire value chain.
ANNUAL REPORT: CSR EXPENDITURE

As per company Act

2013

Particulars TCS INFOSYS

Total amount to
be spent on CSR 360 256.01
for financial year
Amount spent 294.3 202.30

Annual Report 2015-2016


Board Of Directors
Non-Executive Board Members
•Cyrus Mistry, Chairman
•Prof. Clayton M Christensen, Director
•Aman Mehta, Director
•Dr. Ron Sommer, Director
•Dr. Vijay Kelkar, Director
•Ishaat Hussain, Director
•OP Bhatt, Director
•Venkatraman Thyagarajan, Director
Composition of various
Committees of BOD
•Audit Committee
•Nomination And Remuneration
Committee
•Stakeholders’ Relationship
Committee
•Ethics And Compliance
Committee
•Bank Account Committee
•Risk Management Committee
•Health, Safety And Sustainability
Committee
•Corporate Social Responsibility
Committee
Aligned with the ten principles
articulated in the UN Global
Compact
Executive Board Members Corporate Governance
•N Chandrasekaran, CEO & Policies
MD •Tata Codes of Conduct
•Aarthi Subramanian, •Whistle Blower Policy
Global Head of •Policy on Related Party
Delivery Excellence Group Transactions Policy
•Code of Corporate Disclosure
Practices
 CSR Committee •Board members – seven
R Seshasayee|Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw|Dr. Vishal Sikka out of 13 – are independent
KV Kamath|Carol M Browner members. An independent
director is nominated as the
chairperson of each of the
Infosys Science Infosys Foundation audit, management
Infosys Foundation
Foundation USA development and
compensation, stakeholders
relationship, nominations
Hunger, Poverty Rural development and governance, risk
Education management and corporate
and Health projects
social responsibility
committees.
Gender Equality and
Environmental National Heritage,
empowerment of
sustainability Art and Culture
women

Infosys Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Committee Charters

Infosys Limited, fulfils the social responsibility of
the company. The Foundation has undertaken various
initiatives in providing medical facilities to remote
rural areas, organizing novel pension schemes, etc.
adhere to the United Nations Global Compact
(UNGC) and the Organisation for Economic Co-
operation and Development (OECD) principles.
Audit Committee Charter
Corporate Social Responsibility Committee Charter
Finance and Investment Committee Charter
Nomination and Remuneration Committee Charter
Risk and Strategy Committee Charter
 SUSTAINABILITY
• Infosys also follow
‘triple bottom-line’
coined by John
Elkington in 1994
• Global Reporting
initiative’s G4
• UNGC principles
• Externally assured by
DNV-GL

• TCS - 'triple bottom-line' approach and

recognizes that People, Planet and Profit as the
central pillars of corporate sustainability
• Externally assured by KPMG
• G3.1 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines
PLANET
COMMON PARAMETER TCS INFOSYS CONTRAST

ENERGY AND CARBON ISO 14001 certified ISO 14001 certified • KEY
EMISSION
PERFORMANCE
Green Building
Green IT • 7 LEED certified campus • 14 LEED and 4 INDICATOR
• Central Monitoring & GRIHA
control through digital • Command center
meters • Comfy • Data center utilization
• Data center utilization • Radiant cooling • GRIHA certified
• SMS alerting • Comfy
• Radiant cooling
Renewable Energy • Solar PV, Rooftop • Photovoltaic plant(12 • SMS alerting
installation Million units)
• RE power procurement • RE power
from 3rd party procurement

WATER • Rainwater harvesting • Rainwater harvesting • No smart water meter

• Treatment & Recycling • Waste water treatment concept
• Water Efficiency • smart water meter • Zero water discharge
• Awareness creation
• Zero water discharge

WASTE Hazardous, E waste, Hazardous, E waste, • Food waste

Biodegradable waste Biodegradable waste • Zero waste to Landfill
PEOPLE
COMMON PARAMETER TCS INFOSYS CONTRAST

OHSAS 18001 certified OHSAS 18001 certified

• Yoga, aerobics, coaching • HALE – Health • TCS has a more

in tennis, badminton, Assessment and holistic campaign for
cricket and football Lifestyle the health and
Health, Safety & Wellness • Fit4Life – the CEO Enrichment wellness of the
himself encourages • HALE tool employees
people to form teams and • HALE Hotline
pursue a passion for • Stress audit tool
running • ‘Healthy You’ app
• Purpose4Life – mental • OZONE – the
and social wellbeing health, safety and
• Safety First message environment
management system
• HiPo – High Potential • Zero Distance – • Here Infosys
Programme, undergo employee manages to take the
exclusive focused engagement, one employee inputs to
Employee Engagement &
Career Development leadership Programme global interaction design its process
• iConnect – one on one • Zero bench which we feel is
discussions • LITMUS better than TCS

• Integrated Competency • ETA – Education • TCS manages to

Learning and Development and Management System Training and incorporate the
• Based on interests and Assessment aspirations and need of
aspirations of employees • CDP – Competency the employees
• Continuous learning Development Prog.
What is CSR means to them ?

• The community is not just another stakeholder in business but is in fact the
very purpose of its existence and hence they believe in giving back to the
people what they have earned from them
• So from the very inception TCS is following this principle

• Infosys believes the distribution of wealth is as important as its legal and

ethical creation and strong sense of social responsibility is therefore an
integral part of their value system
CSR activities
COMMON
TCS INFOSYS CONTRAST
PARAMETER

EDUCATION • TCS’ Adult Literacy • Infosys Science TCS is more focused on

Programme Foundation education and training in
Since its inception in Vocation in research various areas and
2000, ALP reached Awards to honor working on ground level
193,625 beneficiaries outstanding by thinking over literacy
• Computer-based achievements across while Infosys is more
Functional Literacy six categories focused on raising IT
(CBFL) Programme • Campus Connect skills through academia
More than 11,100 adults Industry academia partnership programmes
were made literate using partnership program and awards and research
the CBFL software • SPARK-IT - initiatives
• “Udaan”, is a joint and Providing a boost to
novel initiative by NSDC engineering students
• “Empower” is another Eliminating hunger
CSR initiative in the classrooms
Empower was expanded • Inspire - Platform to
from Lucknow to Pune & boost the partnership
New Delhi and 131 between Infosys and
candidates were trained faculty members of
under this Programme CC partnering
• Programme InSight institutions
• TCS Maitree
• mKrishi
• TCS Research Scholar
Scheme
HEALTH

COMMON PARAMETER TCS INFOSYS CONTRAST

Sanitation& good • TCS’ intervention • Infosys • Infosys
environment reached 80,757 girls in contributed in intervention is very
1472 schools across building toilets in less as compared to
(Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan)
1169 villages in 4 109 schools in TCS
states Odisha

Disaster Relief • Chennai floods • Helped in • Both companies are

30 villages were short rebuilding active in disaster
listed communities in relief activities
for distributing calamity hit
10 crore to Tamil Nadu Vishakapatnam
government’s flood relief and flood affected
work Chennai

Healthcare • Tata medical center , • Vision for a • TCS is more focused

Kolkata blind-free India - on using its core
• AIIMS Transformation 12000 free potential and helping
• Cancer Research surgeries every Healthcare on
Institute, Chennai year technological front
• Caring and where as Infosys on
comforting the ill helping communities
with free surgeries
Restoration for heritage • Rajabai Clock Tower, • India’s vast and treatment
Mumbai University medical heritage
CONCLUSION

• TCS sustainability report is aligned with GRI G3.1 where as Infosys has
its report aligned with GRI G4 guidelines
• The Key Performance Indicator relating to Group Sustainability
Objectives of Infosys have been internally developed for the next financial
year whereas TCS has developed for medium and long term
• TCS has risk management process integrated with Business strategy
• TCS and Infosys both are OHSAS 18001:2007 and ISO 14001:2004
certified
• TCS has documented its stakeholder and engagement process where as
in Infosys it was not visible
• Both Infosys and TCS sustainability and social practices are not mere PR
activities