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Tata Tea Limited: Leadership difference

Tata Tea evolved as a wholly owned Indian conglomerate in 1983. Today, it owns and operates 55 tea estates and one coffee estate, making it the world’s largest integrated tea company, providing employment to around 60,000 people, including 320 disabled employees.

In keeping with its corporate philosophy, Tata Tea has undertaken a number of initiatives towards rehabilitation of disabled people.

In 1993, it set up three vocational training cum production centres for disabled family members of its tea estate workers in Dooars, West Bengal. Two of the centres produce stationery items and undertake paper cutting and silkscreen printing. The third is for company’s estates. As a result, the lives of disabled youth working in these centres have been transformed.

The Welfare Complex situated in the Company’s Nullatanni Estate, SRISTI, houses three units for rehabilitation of disabled youth and children. The first, Development Activities in Rehabilitative Education (DARE), is the Company’s school for disabled children. The 11 special educators at DARE provide rehabilitative services to about 77 children between 5 and 15 years of age.

The second, Athulya, is the Vocational Training Centre for disabled youth, which started with just 14 youths. Today, it provides vocational rehabilitation to 32 youths, aged between 16 and 35 years, who have been trained by the unit in book binding, file making, printing, envelope making, etc. Athulya also recently started a hand-made paper unit.

The third, Aranya, was started in 1995 and is a vegetable dye unit, providing vocational rehabilitation to 11 youths.

This eco-responsible rehabilitation project use only plant waste, dried leaves, dried fruits rinds and weeds, all of which available locally.

Tata Tea’s pioneering work won it the prestigious FICCI Award in 1998 for its outstanding achievements in the training and placement of persons with disability.

It is not just the manufacturing and marketing excellence, but also its ability to nurture its people, especially those with disability that makes Tata Tea a true world leader.

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