The Pegasus CSR Awards have been instituted to recognise outstanding work done by socially conscious companies. The awards identify best practices and innovations by Indian companies in fulfilling their responsibilities to diverse stakeholders.

In this way, Readers’ Digest, the nation’s largest selling English language magazine also aims to make companies aware of their role as good citizens – and role models - of a fast-developing nation.

Sanjaya Sharma, CEO of TIS said: “This award is a testimonial to our continuing commitment to improve the quality of education and make learning accessible to students with learning difficulties (LD). It was awarded for our various CSR initiatives, taking into consideration our partnerships, approach, deployment, voluntary activities and results.”

Some of TIS’s multi-pronged initiatives to spread awareness of LD and promote remediation include the highly successful annual Tata Interactive Learning Disability Forum (TLDF); a long-standing partnership with the LD clinic at Sion Hospital, in Mumbai; proposals for changes in the medical and teacher training curricula, and the development of a book, ‘Brain Teasers’ for students with LD and their parents, among others.

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Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), a global leader in e-learning, is a part of the $22bn Tata Group. Truly international, TIS has a presence across the US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, Japan, India, and mainland Europe. TIS offers corporations, universities, schools, publishers, and government institutions a diversified and innovative bouquet of learning and training solutions including Simulation-based Learning Objects (SimBLs™), Story-based Learning Objects (StoBLs™), courseware and curriculum design, special-needs education, assessments, electronic performance support systems (EPSS), mobile learning, along with other corporate training and consultancy services. Our multi-disciplinary expertise and 16 years’ experience across domains helps us design e-learning programmes that are unique to clients’ requirements and specifically crafted to boost knowledge retention and application.

Apart from holding ISO 9001 certification, TIS is the only e-learning organisation in the world to be assessed at Level 5 in both the SEI-CMM and P-CMM frameworks. TIS’s quest for excellence is reflected in numerous prestigious industry awards, including a Silver Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Award 2005 and 2004, APEX Award of Excellence in 2005 and 2006, BETT Awards in 2004 and 2006, and two Business World–NID Design Excellence awards.

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