SIR DORABJI TATA TRUST AND THE ALLIED TRUSTS Making a difference ANNUAL REPORT 2013-2014 01 01 CHAIRMAN’S messaGE This year is the 175th birth centenary of Jamsetji Tata, the Settlor of the first of the Tata Trusts and the Founder of the Tata group. While the philanthropic space has changed since Jamsetji Tata established the JN Tata Endowment, his guiding principles have endured through the years. The Trusts are committed to making a difference to the lives of the communities they serve, particularly the disadvantaged and underprivileged, and focused on supporting initiatives that will make a sustainable impact. The Trusts have continued their engagement in other development sectors focusing on social inclusion to make them We stand convinced that knowledge and technology are sustainable and affordable, and partnering with the government powerful tools which can be effectively deployed to address for greater impact. While many projects supported by the many of the development issues faced by India. By benchmarking Trusts have made significant contribution to the society in the against global best practises, our endeavour is to serve the specific areas they worked in, the Trusts realise the need to communities in the most effective and efficient manner. shift from vertical project mode to comprehensive engagement with communities for effecting a sustained improvement in the During the year, the Trusts in partnership with the Indian quality of their lives. Institute of Technology, Mumbai and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, worked towards setting up the Tata Centre Going forward, the Trusts will be working on redefining their for Technology & Design in the IIT campus. The prime objective philanthropic approach with a view to making it relevant and of the Centre is to develop and design affordable technology to responsive to the current needs of society while remaining serve the needs of resource constrained economies like India. within the mandate established by the Settlors. To help alleviate malnutrition, a critical issue affecting over The Trusts are embarking on a major health initiative with 40% of the children in India, the Trusts as part of their nutrition specific focus on malnutrition. The issue of malnutrition initiatives extended grant support for a midday meal programme hampers the living potential of millions of individuals over aimed at making available hygienically prepared nutritious meals multiple generations and hence requires immediate attention to school children, using specialised technology. This support as well as concerted action by all stakeholders. Addressing supplements the Trusts’ work in demonstrating efficacy specific issues relating to stunting, wasting and anemia amongst infants, nutrition inputs, such as crèches for children under three years children, pregnant and lactating mothers, the Trusts have begun of age, in making an immediate, if limited, impact on the lives of work on a number of initiatives in the high burden districts of children in need. Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha with an overall endeavor to improve maternal and child health in those At the other end of the population spectrum are the regions. These initiatives are being developed, designed and aged who are affected in large numbers by Alzheimer’s disease, implemented in partnership with State Governments, leading the most common cause of dementia. It is a devastating Developmental agencies and Community Based Organizations. geriatric condition which encompasses memory loss, cognitive Going forward, these interventions will be scaled up to touch dysfunction, mood swings and behavioural changes leading to millions of lives in the most high burden districts across the progressive decline in the quality of life until death. While there country. is no cure available currently, the Institute of Science, Bengaluru, seeded by Jamsetji Tata, is engaged in multi-disciplinary research in the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s and I thank the staff, external consultants as well as the many partner the Trusts have extended significant grant support for the organisations of the Trusts for their continuing teamwork and programme. collaboration with the Trusts, and in helping make a difference to the lives of many. In the field of arts and culture, it is a matter of pride that with contribution from the Trusts, the Aga Khan Culture Trust completed the restoration of Humayun’s Tomb and the monument was dedicated to the nation by Hon’ble Prime Ratan N Tata Minister in October2013. Chairman 02 Tribal farmers building a diversion based irrigation system – Society for Rural & Urban Joint Activities (Srujan), Gadchiroli in Maharashtra 03 CONTENTS ABOUT US OTHER Projects 05 Our Trustees 46 Reaching out 06 The Team Partner ORGanisationS TRIBUTE 48 Working together to make a difference 08 Celebrating the legacy of Jamsetji Tata Institutions Year IN REVIEW 53 Foundations of knowledge and research 10 Our philanthropic initiatives INDIVidual Grants REGIONAL HIGHLIGHTS 56 Medical 14 An overview 58 Education and Travel 16 Bundelkhand 22 Chattisgarh FINANCIALS 28 Eastern Uttar Pradesh 32 Jharkhand 60 An overview 36 Northeast India 63 Funds disbursed since inception 40 South Odisha 64 Financial Statements of Sir Dorabji Tata Trust 66 Consolidated Financial Statements of the Allied Trusts 04 Promoting cultivation of Kalanamak variety of rice – Shohratgarh Environmental Society, Siddharth Nagar in Uttar Pradesh 05 ABOUT US: OUR Trustees SIR DORABJI Tata Trust THE AllIED Trusts Mr RN Tata, Chairman The JN Tata Endowment for the RD Tata Trust Higher Education of Indians Mr NA Soonawala Mr RN Tata, Chairman Prof SM Chitre Dr (Ms) A Patel Mr NA Soonawala Mr SN Batliwalla Ms D Jejeebhoy Mr RK Krishna Kumar Mr AN Singh Mr RK Krishna Kumar Mr AN Singh Mr R Venkataramanan Mr AN Singh, Trustee & Advisor Mr R Venkataramanan Prof MS Valiathan (till February, 2014) Lady Tata Memorial Trust Mr VR Mehta Tata Education Trust Mr FK Kavarana, Chairman Dr E Sreedharan Mr RN Tata, Chairman Dr PB Desai Mr R Venkataramanan, Executive Trustee Mr RK Krishna Kumar Mr SN Batliwalla Mr AN Singh Mr AN Singh Mr R Venkataramanan Mr M Chandy Tata Social Welfare Trust The JRD Tata Trust Mr RN Tata, Chairman Mr RN Tata, Chairman Mr RK Krishna Kumar Mr NA Soonawala Mr AN Singh Mr AN Singh Mr R Venkataramanan Mr R Venkataramanan The JRD and Thelma J Tata Trust Jamsetji Tata Trust Mr RN Tata, Chairman Mr RN Tata, Chairman Dr (Ms) S Chitnis Mr NA Soonawala Dr (Ms) A Desai Mr RK Krishna Kumar Mr AN Singh Mr AN Singh Mr FN Petit Mr R Venkataramanan Mr R Venkataramanan 06 ABOUT US: THE Team Secretary and Associate Director CHIEF Accountant Ms Rukshana Savaksha Ms Nayantara Sabavala Accounts, Individual Grants Programme Team & AdministrativE Team Mr Abhay Gandhe Ms Kamal Titina Ms Amina Charania Ms Kashmira Meherji Mr Bhaskar Mittra Mr Kumar Chaitanya (on deputation since 30.09.2012) Ms Kumudini Todankar Mr Biswanath Sinha Ms Martha Ferrao Mr Govind Madhav Ms Perrcis Majoo Ms Jayeeta Chowdhury Mr Yezad Siganporia Mr Jitendra Nayak Ms Niyati Mehta Ms Poornima Dore Ms Ratna Mathur * Programme Director Ms Rukmini Datta Mr Sanjiv Phansalkar Ms Saraswati Padmanabhan Ms Tasneem Raja The Programme Associates and Support Staff have also collectively contributed towards the Trusts’ vision of constructive philanthropy (*Resigned during the year.) 07 ADvISOR Legal ADvisors (JN Tata Endowment) Dr Nawaz Mody Mulla & Mulla, Craigie Blunt & Caroe, Mumbai Secretary (Lady Tata MEMORIAl Trust) Statutory Auditors Mr Fershoger Guard Jayantilal Thakkar & Company, Chartered Accountants, Mumbai Registered OFFICE Bombay House, 24, Homi Mody Street, Fort, INTERNAl Auditors Mumbai 400 001 Aneja Associates, Chartered Accountants, Mumbai Bankers ICICI Bank, Mumbai Standard Chartered Bank, Mumbai Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, Mumbai 08 TRIBUTE: CelebratinG THE LEGacy OF Jamsetji Tata Illustration by Javed Mulani 09 Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata was an industrialist, humanist, Another of his dreams was that India should have an nationalist and a nation builder. institution of advanced scientific education and research. In 1898, he pledged ` 3 million – half of his personal He was born on March 3, 1839, in Navsari in Gujarat, into fortune – towards setting it up. The Indian Institute of a family of priests, the eldest child of Nusserwanji Tata. Science in Bangalore (now Bengaluru), helped to create His father moved to Bombay (now Mumbai) to do and nurture India’s atomic energy programme and space business and when Jamsetji was 13 he joined his father programme. It also enabled Cv Raman to undertake and enrolled at Elphinstone College, from where he research in light scattering, which eventually won him the passed out in 1858 as a ‘green scholar’ (the equivalent Nobel Prize in 1930. of today’s graduate). He joined his father’s business gaining knowledge about commodities and markets, trading and banking. In 1868, at the age of 29, he started Carrying on the legacy a private trading firm called Tata and Sons, thus laying the foundation of what is now known as the Tata group. “The wealth gathered by Jamsetji Tata and his sons in He built his business on five core values – Integrity; half a century of industrial pioneering formed but a Understanding; Excellence; Unity; and Responsibility. minute fraction of the amount by which they enriched These values continue to direct the growth and business the nation. The whole of that wealth is held in trust of the Tata group. for the people and used exclusively for their benefit. The cycle is thus complete. What came from the Jamsetji believed in nation building and sought to give people has gone back to the people many times over.” India what he felt was necessary for its economic progress – a steel plant and ‘clean, cheap, abundant power’ – – JRD Tata hydroelectricity. His dreams were realised by his sons when the Tata Iron and Steel Company (now Tata Steel) Jamsetji Tata’s sons, Dorabji and Ratanji, inherited his was set up in 1907 and Tata Power in 1910.