CSR projects for 'One Tata': Group firms collaborate with Tata Trusts

Tata Sons’ flagship firms had started collaborating formally with Tata Trusts, their principal shareholder, on corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes as part of the One Tata approach being espoused by N Chandrasekaran, chairman, Tata Sons, and Ratan Tata, chairman, Tata Trusts, to streamline all charitable spending by the $103 billion group into one unified, powerful programme, said two people with direct knowledge of the matter. They declined to be identified.

As part of the plan, Tata Trusts has initiated a pilot with four Tata group companies, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Steel, Tata Motors and Titan. The operating companies would create a