Corporate Social Responsibility

As one of the largest Non Banking Financial Companies, Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Limited (Chola) believes that it has a responsibility to fulfill towards the people and the environment in shaping a better future for the nation and enabling a Better Life.

Our CSR programs are carried out as a blended activity along with business. We try to cover not only operating geographies but also extend our activities to the neglected and needy segments of society. Our CSR initiatives are currently concentrated in 12 states - Tamil Nadu, Delhi-NCR, Maharashtra, Assam, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh.

Our Key Focus Areas:

  • Health
  • Water & Sanitation
  • Education
  • Arts & Culture
  • Sports
  • Rural Development
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Research and Development
  • Road Safety


  • JALDIKYAHAI

    About #JaldiKyaHai

    #JaldiKyaHai is a road safety initiative against over-speeding, by Chola Finance. In the fast-paced world that we live in, over speeding has become a casual, everyday occurrence. This initiative focuses on the different situations where one speeds beyond the limits and the downsides to the same, in a fun and interesting way. Through this campaign, we hope to bring about a change in the behaviour of road users and make the road a safer place.

  • Health Care Facilities

    Integrated Rural Health Clinic

    Chola has supported 3 health clinics in remote villages of Coimbatore where even basic health facilities are not available.
    Area of Implementation: Thondamuthur block of Coimbatore
    Year of implementation: 2016-17
    Implementing Partner: Isha Outreach
    Reach: 111 Villages
    Beneficiaries: 14,606 Patients

    Raahi Drishti Kendra - Vision Centres for Truckers

    RAAHI DRISHTI KENDRA VISION CENTRES has been setup at areas frequently visited by drivers and those in the transportation industry. The centres provide free health check-up facilities that includes eye screening, dental check- up, etc.
    Area of Implementation: West Bengal, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat.
    Reach: 51500 and counting
    Implementing Partner: Sightsavers India and ARAVALI

    Mobile Health Vans

    Chola has sponsored Mobile Health Vans equipped with a team of physicians, medical assistants and volunteers. Basic emergency care and medical treatment are being provided to the trucking Community at their locality.
    Area of Implementation: Kancheepuram and Coimbatore
    Reach: 10000
    Implementing Partner: Sevalaya and Isha Outreach

    Infrastructure Development

    Sir Ivan Stedeford Hospital
    Chola offered financial assistance to the Sir Ivan Stedeford Hospital in Chennai to expand its infrastructure and add new facilities in order to cater to the growing number of patients visiting the hospital.
    Area of Implementation: Chennai
    Beneficiaries: 1.5 Lakhs since 2016
    Implementing Partner: AMM Foundation

    Valliammai Achi Hospital

    Chola offered financial support to run and maintain the Valliammai Achi Hospital located in the remote forest area of Kadayalumoodu in Kanyakumari district. The hospital is the only medical facility available to the tribal and village community in and around the area.
    Area of Implementation: Kanyakumari
    Implementing Partner: AMM Foundation
    Beneficiaries: 50,000 people since 2015

    Raahi Drishti Kendra - Vision Centres for Truckers

    Raahi- Truckers Eye health program is a flagship program by Chola for Commercial Vehical Crew Members (CVCMs).An initiative to protect the vision of drivers and their crew memebers with eye check up and distributing free spectacles.
    Area of Implementation: Paradeep, Kolkata, Ludhiyana, Kanpur, Indore, Ahmendabad, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Raipur,Vijaywada, Delhi, Salem, Aurangabad, Guwahati, Prayagraj, Kochi, Bhilai, Durg and Korba.
    Implementing Partner:Royal Commonwealth Society for Blind

    Little Hearts

    The project provides free of cost treatment to children of Commercial Vehical Crew Members (CVCMs) suffering from Congenital Heart Disease. It has provided new life to these children by uplifting their families socially, emotionally and financially by providing totally free of cost surgeries.
    Area of Implementation: Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Maharashtra.
    Implementing Partner: Sri Sathya Sai Health and Education Trust

    Strengthening the Metarnal Health

    Maternal deliveries and newborn care by providing free of cost services to the womens from Commercial Vehical Crew Members (CVCMs) through Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Mother & Child Hospital (Mamatva). This program provides 9 months of service where the pregnant mothers get access to safe institutional deliveries and essential medical care. This reduces the neonatal and newborn mortality rate significantly.
    Area of Implementation: Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Maharashtra.
    Implementing Partner: Sri Sathya Sai Health and Education Trust

    Cancer treatment for chidren

    Supporting cancer treatment of children, making health service more available and affordable for families from the low socio-economic groups whose children have Haemophilia or Cancer.
    Area of Implementation: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: Tiara Haemophilia and Cancer Foundation

    ISHA- Sadhanapada

    Sadhanapada is a free 7-month residential program for inner transformation to improve physical health, enhance mental and psychological stability and to establish balance and clarity, live an intense and energetic life, and seek personal growth.
    Area of Implementation: Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: Isha Foundation

    ISHA- Action for Rural Rejuvenation

    Mobile Health Clinics (MHC) and Isha Rural Health Clinics (IRHC), which provide primary healthcare to tribal and rural populations in the Thondamuthur Block in Coimbatore district and Panamarathupatti Taluka in Salem district.
    Area of Implementation: Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: Isha Outreach

    ISHA- Free Yoga

    To teach various yogic practices for free with the objective of enhancing physical, mental and emotional health and well-being.
    Area of Implementation: Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: Isha Institute of Inner Science

    CHOLA – Arogyasarthy

    Truck drivers suffer from many lifestyle-related health problems like diabetes, blood pressure, anemia and other gastric related ailments. The project aims at providing free primary health care services to truck drivers for their overall health & well-being. The mobile medical van also have provisions for giving physiotherapy treatment to the drivers for their bodily pain issues like backaches, joint, muscle and neck pains.
    Area of Implementation: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: Sevabharathi Tamil Nadu

    Hospital Clowning & Creative Therapy Workshops

    The project provides Creative Therapy Workshops for children undergoing chemotherapy for cancer and terminally ill children in Children’s Government Hospital, Egmore. It imparts laughter therapy which helps long term patients, care givers, hospital staff, nurses and doctors with mental well being and to reduce pain medication.
    Area of Implementation: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: Little Theatre

    SAMHITA- Integrated Rehabilitation Center for Children with Developmental Delays

    The project provides a patient-centered rehabilitation centre for the delivery of multispecialty primary care for children with development delays from middle and low socio-economic backgrounds. The developmental delays includes a general and systemic examination, including plotting growth centiles, hearing and vision assessment,baseline blood tests if deemed necessary, referral to a developmental paediatrician, and counselling the parents.
    Area of Implementation: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: Tiara Haemophilia and Cancer Foundation

    Promoting quality health care and education to marginalized section.

    The project establishes institutions for the care of the sick and the old. Hospitals, nursing homes, maternity homes and all kinds of medical institutions for the people. It also provides assistance by grants, gifts or ortherwise to poor, destitutes, orphans, widows and to young people requiring assistance in education.
    Area of Implementation: Assam, Gujarat, Uttrakhand & Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: AMM Foundation

    Health care service for rural community and hydrogiological study to map water bodies

    Health care services for rural community is to provide healthcare to the poor and deprived sections of the society in Cuddalore district. The AMM hospital at Pallathur was rennovated and expanded to include more modernised diagnostic facilities for better diagnosis and treatment for people from 36 villages.
    Area of Implementation: Cuddalore, Pudukkottai - Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: AMM Foundation

  • Water & Sanitation

    Swaccha Marathwada

    Chola has identified several villages in Maharashtra that have no access to clean drinking water and where the ground water is contaminated with high fluoride content. In these villages Chola has installed Any Time Water (ATW) with Reverse Osmosis technology. Thousands of people and families who could not afford to buy water from commercial companies are now able to enjoy clean drinking water.
    Area of Implementation: Latur, Nanded, Osmanabad & Parbhani
    Implementing Partner: Bala Vikasa Social Service Society
    Beneficiaries: 18,000 poor families from 79 villages since 2016

    Swaccha Odisha

    In remote villages in Odisha where there is no electricity or any form of power, there is also water scarcity making it extremely difficult for people to have their basic needs met. Chola has identified few villages and has installed bore wells, overhead tanks and solar powered motors to draw water. Chola has also constructed bath-cum toilets which help hundreds of families and children.
    Area of Implementation: Angul & Balangir
    Implementing Partner: Women Education Environment & Regional Center for Development Cooperation
    Beneficiaries: 600 poor families 2,850 children per year since 2017

    Smart Toilets at Karunilam Village

    Chola has been working with the rural community from Karunilam village in Kancheepuram district of Tamil Nadu to bring about a behavioral change towards adopting good hygienic practices. Chola has installed smart toilets that will primarily benefit the women and children.
    Area of Implementation: Karunilam village, Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner:
    Beneficiaries: 170 families in 2017

    Swaccha Karimnagar

    In Telangana districts of Karimnagar, Nalgonda and Warangal there is a growing issue of water contamination by murk, arsenic and fluoride. Excessive amount of fluoride if ingested for a long period, leads to a crippling disease known as Fluorosis that has a significant impact on teeth and bones. Chola has adopted the district of Karimnagar and intervened to help provide safe drinking water for the rural community. Chola has setup RO water plants in different villages where about 250 households are benefitted on a daily basis. Area of Implementation: Karimnagar
    Implementing Partner: Bala Vikasa Social Service Society
    Beneficiaries: 250 households since 2015

    Swaccha Raipur

    Chola has implemented �Swacch Raipur Project� with the purpose of providing the trucking community with access to basic hygiene and sanitation facilities. This is our overall effort to holistically improve their basic living and working conditions.
    Chola has installed two 30 seater semi-deluxe toilet complexes and purified drinking water facilities through reverse osmosis (RO) process at Bhilai Hathkhoj Transport Nagar and Pandri Bus stop.
    Area of Implementation: Bhilai Hathkhoj Transport Nagar and Pandri Passenger Bus Stand, Raipur, Chhattisgarh
    Implementing Partner: NGO Sulabh International for clean toilets NGO Bala Vikasa Social Services Society for purified drinking water
    Beneficiaries: 4,000 per day for next 30 years

    SWACCHA TELANGANA PROJECT-Phase VI

    The project aims to arrange purified drinking water to the remote villages through providing ‘Any Time Water’ (ATW) of Ultra Filtration (UF) plants.
    Area of Implementation: Telangana
    Implementing Partner: Bala Vikasa Social Service Society

    Expansion of toilets in Police Station

    Providing proper sanitation facility to the women and men staffs of the B1 North Beach Police Station.
    Area of Implementation: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: Sevabharathi Tamil Nadu

    Swaach Hathiyana Village

    This project is a complete sanitation solution by construction of septic tank by collecting and treating all generated wastewater in the village of Hathiyana, Assam.
    Area of Implementation: Hathiyana, Assam
    Implementing Partner: Diya Foundation

    Swachha Odisha Gram Vikas

    This project aims at improving access to water, safe sanitation and awareness on healthy environment through, practicing healthy sanitary habits through use of toilets. The project provides access to water to each households in the villages of Odisha. The project includes building of over head water tanks for storage and supply of water to each toilets.
    Area of Implementation: Odisha
    Implementing Partner: Women Education and Environment

  • Education

    Holistic School Program

    Chola has sponsored a comprehensive set of programs that inspire students and create the right environment for them to learn and grow. Chola offers support towards the development of the school infrastructure, provide sports and lab equipments, donation of school buses and provide latest teaching aids and technology tools.
    Area of Implementation: Viluppuram, Nagercoil & Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: Isha Education
    Beneficiaries: 7,000 children since 2016

    Learning Through Arts

    Chola has implemented several programs that use arts and crafts to teach core subjects like Science, Maths and Languages with the aim of helping children enjoy learning and reduce the number of school dropouts. Area of Implementation: Kanchipuram & Chennai in Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: Nalandaway
    Beneficiaries: 1,400 students since 2016

    Free Education for Deserving Students

    TI School believes in imparting meaningful education by providing opportunities for experiential learning and self learning. The school also supports students from low income groups giving them an opportunity to get a good education. Chola has funded the education costs of 116 students enabling them to get free education in a reputable institution. Area of Implementation: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: AMM Foundation
    Beneficiaries: 116 students since 2016

    Learning Through Technology

    Most of the city schools have smart classes and the engagement levels are much higher than schools in the rural areas. Chola has sponsored technology based learning programs to enable students in rural schools to make learning fun. Through the use of tablets and Skype sessions, Maths and Spoken English are being taught to kids along with other engaging activities such as worksheets, games, puzzles, problem solving activities etc.
    Area of Implementation: Kanchipuram District in Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: AID India
    Beneficiaries: 600 students since 2016

    Supporting Children with Disability

    Chola believes that every child deserves a playground and every child must have equal access to the best play opportunities. Chola sponsored special playground equipment to Worth School in Katpadi, Vellore for hearing and speech impaired children and also for mentally challenged children. It also supported the training centers in the trust.
    Area of Implementation: Vellore
    Implementing Partner: Worth Trust
    Beneficiaries: 260 students since 2016

    Arts in Education

    The program enables a joyful learning experience for children of primary classes by strengthen their foundational learning which helps them engage better in the classrooms. This program enhances their creativity and imagination by providing them a safe environment to acquire these skills.
    Area of Implementation: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: Nalandaway Foundation

    My Dream Scholarship Program

    My Dream Scholarship Program is a comprehensive poverty alleviation program that focuses on individual children of trucker community. The objective of this program is to provide severely underprivileged children with scholarship for college education, technical education or higher studies.
    Area of Implementation: Salem, Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: Women Organization for Rural Development

    New class rooms at Government School

    Construction of classrooms at the Government Girls Higher Secondary School at Mogappair, Chennai, to facilitate the higher classes to improve intake of girls from weaker sections of society in the area.
    Area of Implementation: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: Rotary Club of Chennai Mid City Charitable Trust

    AKKAM- STEM Education & Labs in Government School

    Providing STEM facilities for the selected 5 Govenment schools in Chennai to improve the education status of the students. This will help students to improve their aptitude and performance, increase the self-confidence of students and to increase enrolment.
    Area of Implementation: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: Unitedway Chennai

    CNC Tutor Machine for Technical Training Centre

    WORTH Trust is an NGO for Differently-Abled students (Speech & Hearing Impaired and Physically Challenged). The project provides the students with CNC Tutor Machine in Technical Training Centre. Where the students will be able to learn & use the latest CNC machining technology for better employment opportunities.
    Area of Implementation: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: WORTH Trust

    Nalam- Strengthening Government Hospital

    Through this project Chola provided medical equipments needed to treat the patients such as Retrofit DR System and Carestream
    Area of Implementation: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: Unitedway Chennai

    Mini-Library for Anganbadis

    The project aims to ensure the inclusion of children with disabilities (CWDs) in their nearest anganwadis and provide quality pre-school education to all children. Chola provided 'mini-library' resource kits comprising a set of 20 multi-sensory educational and play items and a cabinet, to 50 Anganwadi centres that completed the six month teacher training.
    Area of Implementation: Karjat, Maharashtra
    Implementing Partner: Sammaveshi Parthshala Foundation

    Financial Literacy

    Financial literacy and health awareness among commercial vehicle crew members (CVCMs) and their family members (especially women). The program trains the CVCMs and their family member on financial planning and linkage to various govt. schemes, banking, digital transactions & safety, insurance, investments and saving practices etc.
    Area of Implementation: Gujarat & Rajasthan
    Implementing Partner: Prays Organisation for Sustainable Development

  • Arts & Culture

    Both visual and performing arts give an insight into the cultural heritage of a nation. It is important that it is preserved and passed on from one generation to another. Chola has been involved with organizations like DakshinaChitra for preserving traditional arts and culture. We extend our support in sponsoring programs that provide learning through art for students and interns. Chola extends its support to art museums and celebrates thematic cultural festivals of various states.
    Area of Implementation: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
    Beneficiaries: 60 students per year since 2015

    Arts Education Programme

    The project is design to see arts education as an integral part of the development of students where they explore the joy of learning within and beyond their curriculum. To enable teachers to connect the experiences of their students to the syllabus in their text books through exploring local arts and cultural forms and practices.
    Area of Implementation: Bangalore, Karnataka
    Implementing Partner: India Foundation for the Arts

    The Dakshina Chitra Museum - Arts & Museum Management Project

    The project provides internship for students to enhance work-skills by functioning of a museum, while serving as a platform for generating and exchanging knowledge. Through the internship the students learn collections, archiving, conservation, research, arts and museum management, exhibitions, events, cultural tourism, crafts-shop, crafts-bazaar, administration and finance.
    Area of Implementation: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: Madras Craft Foundation Trust

    Mangala Isai Vizha

    Mangala Isai Vizha is an exclusive music project. It is for the Mangala Vadyams of South India, the Nadaswaram and Thavil. Mangala Isai Vizha, gives a platform to the supremely talented young musicians of the majestic instruments of Nadaswaram & Thavil.
    Area of Implementation: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: VVS Foundation

  • Sports

    Supporting Children with Disability

    Just as education is an important factor, sport also could be used as a tool to benefit the youth and women in the rural areas. Sport is a healthy way to discharge youth energy along with vitality. Chola has provided sports kits, setup several volley ball and throw ball courts and also trained hundreds of youth in professional sports with the best-in-class coaches in rural areas of Coimbatore and Chennai district in Tamil Nadu.
    Area of Implementation: Coimbatore & Chennai in Tamil Nadu
    Beneficiaries: 396 women, youth and children since 2016

    Professional Football Coaching at Murugappa Youth Football Academy

    The Murugappa Youth Football Academy is a private coaching institution that offers free football coaching for young boys from economically weaker backgrounds. The academy has internationally trained professional coaches. The students are provided with the best facilities which otherwise they cannot afford. Chola has been offering financial support to the academy to continue its efforts in grooming competent players and responsible individuals.
    Area of Implementation: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
    Beneficiaries: 94 students since 2016

    Unifying Village Youth Through Sports

    Chola believes that sports bind people together regardless of caste and community. It is a language that every youth understands and is a means to channelize energy and put to constructive use for the benefit of the community. Chola has sponsored professional coaching for volley ball, throw ball, on the field activities and has also setup many courts in about 54 villages in Coimbatore district.
    Area of Implementation: Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
    Beneficiaries: 300 students since 2016

  • Rural Development

    Unifying Village Youth Through Sports

    Chola is committed to raising the standard of living conditions of the people living in rural areas. A few initiatives that Chola is focusing on is to bring reliable energy to homes, provide clean drinking water and enable access to basic medical facilities. Area of Implementation: 56 Villages
    Beneficiaries: 93,261 families in 2016 & 2017

    Rural Development in Thondamuthur

    Chola has mobilized 54 villages in Thondamuthur block of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. Key initiatives in these areas are focused on improving the quality of education, providing access to health facilities, promoting rural sports and raising awareness on solid waste management.
    Area of Implementation: 54 villages in Coimbatore
    Implementing Partner: Isha Outreach
    Beneficiaries: 92,261 families since 2016

    Rural Development in Nathamedu

    Chola has identified Nathamedu village in Thiruvallur District of Tamil Nadu where the rural community needs intervention in areas like education, health, water & sanitation. Chola is currently working on projects like a Free Tuition Centre for School Children, RO Water Plant for Drinking Water, Community Toilet and a Medical Centre.
    Area of Implementation: Nathamedu village, Thiruvallur District
    Implementing Partner: Sevalaya
    Beneficiaries: 1000 families

    ISHA Farmer Producer Organization (FPOs)

    Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) initiative aims to transform the Indian farmer’s life to one of prosperity, market access and sustainability by providing technical, financial and marketing support for farmers.
    Area of Implementation: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: ISHA Foundation

  • Environment Sustainability

    Rural Development in Nathamedu

    Chola efforts on environmental sustainability are primarily inclined towards the protection of endangered species of birds and rare animals.
    Area of Implementation: Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh & Lakshadweep

    Madras Crocodile Bank Trust

    The Madras Crocodile Bank Trust was established in 1976. To sustain its operations on conservation of endangered species of KOMODOS, CROCODILES and ALLIGATORS, Chola offers financial support towards expansion of infrastructure, conservation activities and other sustainable efforts.
    Area of Implementation: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: Madras Crocodile Bank Trust

    Partnership with Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF)

    Community Led Conservation in SPITI

    Chola has partnered with Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF) towards facilitating the coexistence of people and wildlife and ensuring a sustainable future for both in Spiti which is a cold desert mountain valley located high in the Himalaya Mountains in the north-eastern part of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Chola makes an annual contribution to the livestock security program.

    Study to Identify The Threats to The Coral Reefs in Lakshdweep

    NCF conducted a genetic analysis to identify the 6 commercial target species caught in trawl fishery (the dominant commercial fishery) in Lakshdweep in order to protect the fast disappearing coral reefs.

    Conservation in High Altitude & Oceans Program

    • High altitude program in Spiti- A village-level livestock security program that allows villagers to seek a compensation for livestock killed by snow leopard and wolves.
    • Oceans and coasts program- To explore how individual fishers and fishing communities make harvesting decisions, using a socio-economic, behavioural and resource management theory approaches.
    • Elephant program in Valparai – Saving lives using communication technology for promoting human-elephant coexistence in the plantation of the Anamalais
    Area of Implementation: Spiti, Lakshdweep
    Implementing Partner: Nature Conservation Foundation

    Use of Technology to Conserve Flora and Fauna

    The project aims to make a reasoned reconciliation between human society and wild nature. The project includes use of mobile phone technology for human safety and elephant conservation in modified landscapes of South India, Understanding and mediating marine species responses to local and global disturbance, season watch - a citizen science approach to engaging people with climate change by documenting changes in seasonality of flowering, fruiting and leafing of trees, research and conservation of threatened hornbills and mammals in the Eastern Himalayas.
    Area of Implementation: Spiti, Lakshdweep
    Implementing Partner: Nature Conservation Foundation

  • Research & Development

    Rural Development in Nathamedu

    Chola supports and empowers organizations that focus on developing an ecosystem that would breed an entrepreneurial culture. Currently Chola has partnered with research organizations Shri A.M.M. Murugappa Chettiar Research Centre (MCRC) and IIT Madras. Both organizations have created academic and technology incubators for innovation and social impact. The facilities at these organizations are open to college and university students, professors and scientists.
    Area of Implementation: Chennai, Tamil Nadu

    Partnership with Murugappa Chettiar Research Centre (MCRC)

    Chola provides financial support to fund key projects of MCRC, a non-profit research organization established in 1973 at Chennai. MCRC develops sustainable solutions using appropriate Science and Technology interventions to improve livelihoods of the rural community. The Centre mainly works in areas of Food, Energy, Environment and Development in rural India.
    Area of Implementation: Chennai, Tamil Nadu

    Partnership With IIT Madras

    Chola partners with Indian Institute of Technology Madras and funds some of their technology incubation projects for nurturing and overseeing innovation and entrepreneurship and also provides scholarship for deserving students.
    Area of Implementation: Chennai, Tamil Nadu

    Indigenous State-of-the-art Ultrasound Scanner for Maternal and fetal Healthcare

    An initiative to develop a fully functional prototype ultrasound scanner, along with an integrated robotic arm, that is portable and can be used for reliable maternal and fetal imaging applications in a rural setting by a frontline health worker.
    Area of Implementation: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: Indian Institute of Technology Madras

    Research & Development on solar based devices for rural areas

    Research and development on solar based energy and sustainable agricultural practice in rural areas for improving crop production.
    Area of Implementation: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
    Implementing Partner: Shri AMM Murugappa Chettiar Research Center

  • Flood Relief

    Chola has supported the natural disaster struck areas in times of need. The devastation visited on Kerala by the deluge and landslips for two years in succession is unprecedented in living memory. As a responsible corporate citizen Chola supported the displaced population by supporting the Snehabhumi humanitarian project to provide 100 stable houses to those who have lost their dwellings.

    Area of implementation- Kerala.

  • Impact Assessment Reports