Research Scholar, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India
Online published on 8 August, 2016.
Information Technology is one of the most important industries in the Indian economy. The IT sector has grown at a high pace in the Indian business environment. The IT industry of India has registered huge growth in recent years. India's IT industry grew from 150 million US Dollars in 1990–1991 to a whopping 50 billion UD Dollars in 2006–2007. In the last ten years the Information Technology industry in India has grown at an average annual rate of 30%.
Some of the major companies in the IT industry of India are - Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Infosys, Wipro, IBM, HP, HCL, Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS), Satyam, and NIIT. This research studies the contribution of corporate social responsibility (CSR) of the IT sector in India with special reference to education and healthcare. For this research two IT companies have been taken into consideration - Infosys and Wipro. A comparative analysis was used to find the measures adopted by these two companies for CSR.
