Larsen & Toubro Limited is one of India’s largest private enterprises, with headquarters in Mumbai. Over the last 80 years, the Indian multinational corporation has been known for its Technology, Engineering, Construction, and Manufacturing, and it proudly claims leadership in all of its major business areas.
Customers in over 50 countries have been served by the corporation in areas such as power, hydrocarbon, process industry, defence, information technology, products, system & equipment, finance, and real estate.
Larsen & Toubro
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) team
L&T aspires to promote activities that improve the quality of life for communities in and around its operating locations. Corporate-level CSR teams work under the supervision of the Board’s CSR committee. They design, implement, and monitor CSR programmes, either directly or in collaboration with NGOs as implementing agencies.
Health Care Facilities
L&T’s multi-specialty Health Centres with trained staff provide outpatient and tertiary health services to underserved populations, making healthcare accessible and cheap.
Trust in Prayas
Prayas Trust is a non-profit social welfare organisation founded by the spouses and female employees of L&T Construction. The L&T management encourages and financially supports it. Prayas is the driving force behind L&T’s CSR efforts, uniting the L&T family across India to aid the impoverished sectors of society located near various L&T sites.
L&T-eering
L&T-eering is an organised employee volunteering initiative that encourages workers to participate in a variety of community development activities for underserved communities.
L&T Public Charitable Trust (LTPCT) is a charitable trust established by L&T.
The L&T Public Charitable Trust was established in 2004. The charity works on programmes that promote long-term societal development, such as vocational training, water management, holistic child development, and healthcare in underserved regions. Employee contributions and L&T management grants have resulted in the university becoming a not-for-profit entity within the conglomerate.
CSR initiatives
Integrated Community Development Programme
The L&T Integrated Community Development Programme was launched in fiscal year 2014-15 with the goal of increasing water availability. This project is active in the states of Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra.
The ICDP uses a methodical community organisation strategy that begins with a need assessment of the location. These include mobilising people, forming village development and monitoring committees, raising awareness about water conservation, constructing civil infrastructure to aid in water and soil conservation and ensuring its maintenance by the community, providing sanitation facilities with people’s labour contributions, and encouraging climate resilient and sustainable agricultural practises.
Education L&T’s education projects aim to promote social upliftment and inclusive development throughout the country. The organisation has taken a number of measures to provide infrastructure to schools that lack necessary resources and to improve the quality of learning for pupils.
Saajhi Shiksha
The project Saajhi Shiksha strives to provide inclusive and high-quality education to marginalised children aged 3 to 18. The programme has been implemented in 19 schools and six Anganwadi Centres in Rajasthan’s Rajsamand district.
‘Engineering Futures’- L&T’s STEM Education Programme
Since 2019, L&T has launched the ‘Engineering Futures’ (EF) STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) Education Project. This programme, which operates in resource-poor Government schools in four campus areas in Vadodara (Gujarat), Hazira (Gujarat), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), and Faridabad (Haryana), helps teach Science and Math through hands-on models and digital content for better comprehension, while encouraging students’ curiosity and scientific rigour. Each school has a computer lab to help teachers learn how to use technology while also providing pupils with practical digital literacy skills.
Skill Development
Since 2019, L&T has launched the ‘Engineering Futures’ (EF) STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) Education Project. This programme, which operates in resource-poor Government schools in four campus areas in Vadodara (Gujarat), Hazira (Gujarat), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), and Faridabad (Haryana), helps teach Science and Math through hands-on models and digital content for better comprehension, while encouraging students’ curiosity and scientific rigour. Each school has a computer lab to help teachers learn how to use technology while also providing pupils with practical digital literacy skills.
Industry-oriented skill training, women and specially abled
L&T has partnered with 27 Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) across the country to provide industry-specific training. L&T’s ‘Project Neev’ provides carefully planned training programmes to empower differently-abled Divyang. Aside from that, the organisation has launched vocational training courses in tailoring, beautician skills, home-nursing, and food processing for women from poor regions.
Multi Skilling Training Centre
Multi Skilling Training Centre is a skill-building centre in Vizag built by L&T as part of its CSR initiatives to bridge the gap between vocational education and industry needs. The centre improves the employability of new ITI technicians by providing structured skill training by L&T qualified trainers.
In fiscal year 2021-22, the centre had 125 students and successfully delivered basic training to 74 unique beneficiaries, 34 of them were women (46%). While 23 (45%) of the 51 advanced batch trainees were placed with diverse employers.
