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  Press Releases : Nasscom Report 2007-2008
 
   
  Initiatives by Companies towards CSR.  
   
  Training of Teachers  
 
 
Wipro's teacher Empowerment Program is a comprehensive development program for in-service teachers. 244 schools across 25 cities have been taken up, covering 6,505 teachers.
   
GTL organized 12 day computer training for teachers of the Municipal Corporation Schools of Navi Mumbai.
   
Scope International undertook training of the faculty of Madras University. MOP Vaishnava College for Women, Stella Maris and ELCOT, Chennai.
   
Under Intel's "Teach India Program" which focuses on professional development, over 750,000 teachers have been trained in 15 states.
   
  Education for Adults
   
 
Xansa conducts Literacy at Home' program for their extended staff in Chennai, Noida and Pune.
   
GTL organized a Senior Citizens Meet where basic computer knowledge was imparted to more than 100 senior citizens.
   
  Mid-day Meals  
     
 
Companies such as Infosys, Philips Software Centre, ASM Technologies PAR, Stag Software, MindTree Consulting, etc. contribute to ISKCON's Akshayapatra.
   
This is one of the largest privately run mid-day meals program covering ever 1 lakh students across the country.
 
     
  Scholarships  
   
 
NIIT offers the Bhavishya Jyothi, scholarship for computer training.
   
Huawei Technologies offers 5 scholarships at the IIT {B} - 3 for academic excellence and 2 for research project.
   
Xansa offers scholarships in each of the 18 schools covered by them for 95 children of their extended staff.