ITC's Watershed Development Programme, designed to assist farmers in identified moisture-stressed areas, increased by an additional 63,492 hectares in 2014-15 taking the total area covered under the programme to 212,200 hectares.
Over 43% of ITC's total energy requirements was met from carbon neutral fuels such as biomass, wind and solar.
All ITC's premium luxury Hotels are LEED® Platinum certified (certification is in progress for the super premium ITC Grand Bharat which opened recently).
Out of this, ITC's Social Forestry Programme cumulatively covers 69,421 hectares in 3,985 villages, impacting over 72,000 poor households.
The 'Wellbeing Out of Waste' initiative inculcates the habit of source segregation and recycling. The initiative currently extends to Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru, Coimbatore and some towns of Telangana.
Benefitting 4,20,000 children During 2014-15, a new initiative called the ‘Read India Programme’ reached out to 36,000 children. In addition, another 34,000 children were covered by Supplementary Learning Centres, taking the total number of children benefitted to 4,20,000.
Empowering 4 million farmers ITC's globally acknowledged e-Choupal initiative is the world’s largest rural digital infrastructure benefitting over 4 million farmers
These women were gainfully employed either through micro-enterprises or assisted with loans to pursue income generating activities
The programme for genetic improvement of cattle through artificial insemination to produce high-yielding crossbred progenies is implemented through 256 Cattle Development Centres covering over 10,000 villages.
The objective is to protect native flora and fauna and providing other eco-system services
This program played an active role in building and upgrading skills of marginalised youth to better meet the emerging needs of the job market.
Figures in this section are as on June 2015. Figures in the rest of the Report pertain to the Financial year 2014-15.