Tata AIG General Insurance Company Limited is a joint venture between Tata Group and American International Group (AIG). Tata AIG General Insurance Company Limited celebrated 15 years of service this year (2015) since it commenced operations in India on January 22, 2001. The company offers a range of general insurance covers for businesses and individuals and has a comprehensive range of general insurance products for Liability, Marine Cargo, Personal Accident, Travel, Rural-Agriculture Insurance, Extended Warranty etc. Each product offering is backed by professional expertise. Tata AIG General Insurance Company Limited has an asset base of approximate 0.6 billion USD, a workforce of 2523 employees and 9446 agents. It is present in 98 locations across India.
Centre for microfinance (CmF) is an autonomous organization registered under the Rajasthan Societies Act, 1958. The Centre for micro Finance (CmF) Jaipur, set up by the Trusts in 2007,to act as the nodal agency for Sakh-se-Vikas (SSV) and scale up the community-led microfinance models under SSV. Towards this, CmF works as a resource agency providing technical and capacity building services to non-profit organizations in the state. It also supports innovative ideas, which seeks to increase outreach of micro finance services to underserved regions and populations. Another core activity of CmF is to serve as a knowledge hub on microfinance to address knowledge gaps in the sector. Networking and promoting collaboration among various stakeholders to further the microfinance sector in the state is another core objective of CmF.
Established in 2002, Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) is a not-for-profit social enterprise that empowers people at the edge of information, including marginalised and underserved communities.
DEF’s overarching cross-cutting goal is to end information poverty by ensuring access to information for all. DEF does this in various ways including the use of digital tools and infrastructure, connectivity and Internet.
One of DEF’s flagship programmes is to establish Community Information Resource Centres (CIRCs) in rural and semi-urban areas that are community-owned and managed, and equipped with broadband enabled basic digital infrastructure. These CIRCs spread digital literacy at little or no cost to empower information-dark communities to use digital tools and avail a whole range of digital services to meet their day to day requirements.
CIRCs also implement other projects that enable education services, entrepreneurship development and skilling, tele-medicine, empowering below-poverty-line people to know about and avail government welfare schemes, ensure conservation of natural resources, and promote culture and heritage.
Various DEF projects also empower village level local government bodies, schools, micro-enterprises, civil society organisations, primary health centres, public libraries and other entities to become digitally enabled and capable of availing all the benefits of the Information Age.
DEF has so far empowered more than 1 million people to use digital tools for bettering their lives. Through its awards and mentorship programmes, DEF identifies and honours innovations and best practices in the field of ICT for Development (ICTD) across all digital media and has successfully created a knowledge hub and database of more than 5,000 such innovations across India, South Asia and the Asia Pacific.
DEF’s advocacy and research projects seek to promote more intensive use of digital tools, access for all to the Internet and the right to information.