The company has a very big campus in Hyderabad. It has more than a dozen buildings amidst trees and gardens. The whole campus is an aesthetic delight. The company is also among India’s biggest, with more than a lakh employees. Naturally, a lot of parents aspire to have their kids working here. And the manner, in which the company goes about its social responsibility, is a case study in itself.
Every Saturday, employees are free to bring in their family or friends inside the campus. A couple walking over the green grass, both holding a hand of their daughter or son is a usual scene. Then there are old parents, reviewing the place where their child spends major part of his or her waking hours. Not to mention, the campus takes a very different color every weekend. And it is such a delight! Many times students from local colleges also visit the campus as part of industrial visit. I believe they go back with a dream which would not only help them but also our nation. Then there are skills development programs conducted for teachers and professors. It is like a win-win strategy, much like the legendary Henry Ford’s strategy of empowering his employees so that they could buy a Ford car. The company also holds a very high position in terms of business ethics and values, and with these social interactions, it plays a very important role in our nation’s progress.
I remember the time when a college was discussing whether to close an access road which ran through its campus, for the ‘outsiders’. Locals took it to save their precious minutes. One professor suggested that we should never close it for them. A university has a very constructive role to play for the place where it is situated. To allow the locals to have whiffs of that fresh academic air should definitely not be disrupted, in spirits of the larger good.
If only all our institutions play a more constructive role in the development of our society our nation would take a faster pace towards reclaiming its past glory.
- Rahul
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