PM's 'Swachh Bharat' Campaign Bags 200 Crore From TCS, Bharti

BANGALORE: It is a known fact that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has an excellent way with words. With such gusto, within some days of his announcement of the Clean India drive, two of the country’s biggest companies — TCS and Bharti Enterprises pledged 200 crore to the cause as part of their CSR initiatives to construct toilets in schools.

Emphasizing on dignity of women, PM Modi had asked parliamentarians and corporate sector to help build separate toilets for girls in schools across the country by next year.

He had added that the corporate sector should give priority to building toilets in schools as part of their corporate social responsibility initiatives.

Country's largest software services firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) said it has pledged 100 crore toward financing hygienic sanitation facilities for girl students across 10,000 schools.

TCS will earmark a budget of 100 crore to be spent on this initiative, which will help children, especially girl students, to participate in school education for a longer period of time and play a larger economic role in their communities, TCS said in a statement.

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