TCS iON Digital Zone goes green

TCS iON, the strategic e-learning unit of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has embarked on an initiative to convert its TCS iON Digital Zones into clean energy efficient Green Zones. Under this initiative, TCS iON has commissioned its first solar power rooftop project at Ram Ganga Vihar in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh.

Under the clean energy mission, it aims to transform its 251 owned centers to solar empowered zones which will contribute to save more than 25% of TCS iON Digital Zone’s total electricity consumption across the country.

TCS iON conducts more than 85% of the large-scale and high-stake academic and recruitment examinations in India through its state-of-the-art infrastructure across 625 cities through its ‘Phygital’ platforms. The TCS iON Digital Zone at Ram Ganga Vihar, Moradabad alone has 532 computing nodes with the capacity of assessing 2000 candidates a day. This zone went live on 10th May 2016, and has conducted more than 435 exams and assessed 2,25,000 candidates till date.

Commenting on this, Venguswamy Ramaswamy, Global Head, TCS iON said, “We understand our responsibility as a corporate to work towards sustainable development of our nation and imbibe the consciousness of environment protection amongst the young generation. TCS iON took a leap by establishing paperless assessments through our Digital centers, saving approximately 17, 85, 000 trees till date. We now take another step to optimize energy consumption and identify methods to utilize renewable energy for these centers. We will undertake a clean energy drive for every TCS iON Digital Zone to be empowered with cutting-edge energy consumption practices and are deploying IoT based monitoring methods under this initiative.”

According to TCS, going green not only contributes to reducing global warming emissions and pollution, but the use of green energy has proved to be highly beneficial for a healthy environment. With this initiative, TCS iON, which is focused on exploring continuous innovations, has committed itself in reducing the carbon footprint and in moving forward in preserving resources for current and future generations.