TCS BPO Services honored with Excellent Energy Efficient Unit Award 2009 by CII

At the 10th National Award for Excellence in Energy Management 2009 conducted by CII

Mumbai, December 10, 2009: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: TCS.BO, NSE: TCS.NI), leading global IT services and consulting firm, announced that TCS BFS BPO (Banking and Financial BPO unit) has won the “Excellent Energy Efficient Unit Award 2009” at the 10th National Award for Excellence in Energy Management 2009 conducted by CII – Godrej at Chennai Trade Centre, Chennai. The objective of the Award is to recognize and Award "Excellence" in Energy Management in industries and facilitate sharing of information by excellent energy efficient companies.

TCS won the award among 150 participants from diverse industries. Companies were assessed on the basis of trend of the reduction in specific energy consumption, innovation in identifying and implementing energy saving projects, saving achieved, methodology adopted, efforts to sustain the savings and how close the units are towards Global best. TCS emerged as a winner for efficient energy usage.

The benefits of energy efficiency and installation of energy efficient equipment is recognized by most of the leading corporates. Reduction in usage of energy reduces the carbon footprint. The potential for improved efficiency due to close monitoring of the ‘design vs. actual’ performance of the equipment in use - more so in the context of changing technology and increasing energy costs need no emphasis. Various measures post studies were implemented and the energy saving proposals achieved significant results. Innovative simple techniques like Green Zones and Red zones and green patrolling to monitor the same were also introduced. Post implementation of the recommendations, a net annual saving of 10% was achieved.

Abid Ali Neemuchwala, TCS Vice President, Global Head BPO Services and Process Excellence said, “We are proud of this achievement and look forward to spearhead many such Energy Saving practices within our organization. We have put focused effort in energy conversation practices for quite some time now. We appreciate the stupendous effort of the entire BPO team which led to such huge savings in electricity costs.”

About TCS BPO Services

Tata Consultancy Services Business Process Outsourcing Services (TCS BPO Services) is a market leader in providing innovative business solutions across multiple industry verticals to meet customers' business efficiency and effectiveness objectives. It provides high quality domain led transaction processing services leveraging technology to transform operations on TCS and client Platforms leveraging TCS Global Network Delivery Model. For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com/bpo.

About Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT, BPS, infrastructure, engineering and assurance services. This is delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model™,recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 285,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 46 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $11.6 billion for year ended March 31, 2013 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com.

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