Touching Lives, People And Beyond

For IHCL, sustainability straddles environment and habitat preservation, wildlife species, creation of livelihood opportunities, besides the adoption of zero-plastic, water conservation and renewable energy policies. The group has touched over 25 million lives by now.

- Deepali Nandwani

We live in an era of transformations. Our world is changing rapidly with the rise of new technologies, growing environmental concerns and a renewed, collaborative understanding of economic and social value. We remain deeply rooted in history, with the great legacy of the 150-year old Tata Group keeping us anchored to our core values of integrity, excellence, unity, responsibility and pioneering spirit.”

This is how Puneet Chhatwal, Managing Director and CEO, IHCL defines the hospitality conglomerate’s take on CSR and sustainability. Under Aspiration 2022 strategy, IHCL has reimagined its brandscape, augmented the development pipeline significantly, and ensured proactive asset management with all-round efforts to improve efficiencies.

The group has also set upon itself a target to create sustainable and responsible hotels that give back to the society in a myriad different ways. Alok Vijayvergiya, Corporate Director, Sustainability, says, “IHCL always had an active CSR policy and in 2016, we implemented a sustainability policy. We have a multi-pronged approach to CSR and sustainability, which straddles the environment, the community, wildlife and heritage. We are enablers for community development and environment preservation. We have touched over 25 million lives through our social projects.”