Corporate Sustainability Initiatives
TIS has a multi-pronged approach to Corporate Sustainability that is focused on Learning Differences (LD – also referred to as Learning Difficulties and Learning Disabilities). It has focused on improving awareness about LD thereby contributing to an improvement in social and governmental attitudes to the issue. TIS has partnered with the LD Clinic at Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital (better known as the Sion Hospital) for several years, providing financial support, helping streamline processes, develop remedial activities and books, the development of an LD portal and other voluntary activities. This has helped bring about changes in the state government’s MBBS syllabus, with LD being made a compulsory subject. Efforts are on to include LD in B.Ed. syllabi as well. 925 learning disabled children have received LD certification in 2007 (taking the total to 3300 in the past 5 years) and 225 new schools have registered for LD certification in 2007 (480 in the past 5 years).
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