2.Empowering Lives through Literacy
Inadequate adult literacy remains a significant challenge, hindering India’s ability to achieve its full economic potential
TCS Literacy as a Service (LaaS) promotes social inclusion and transforms lives through literacy. Launched in 2000 LaaS has empowered over 2.61 million learners and 241,740 facilitators. In FY25, LaaS empowered 412,216 learners. This digital literacy platform offers training, videos, assessments and digital certificates along with financial literacy, digital literacy, awareness of key citizen entitlements, and disaster risk reduction (DRR) literacy in nine Indian languages and three foreign languages and has over 460 volunteers.
The ‘Each One Empowers One’ initiative gives employees of TCS and other Tata Group companies an opportunity to volunteer and empower those in their community.
Let’s go to Palli Village in Puri, Odisha where we bring you the story of Prabhasini Baral's journey to financial Independence. Starting with the basics, learning the alphabet and arithmetic, she discovered the power of knowledge beyond literacy, learning about disaster preparedness and the importance of essential documents. Prabhasini applied for the Subhadra Yojana scheme, she purchased a cow, earning a steady income by selling milk in her village, turning a simple resource into a sustainable livelihood.