When we define Eicher as a company committed to the community, we mean community
in its broadest sense: the totality of the social, economic, and natural spheres
in which we do business and live our lives.
This commitment takes many forms, with special attention to enhancing education
and quality of healthcare facilities throughout the country.
Eicher’s commitment to the cause of education saw the birth of the Eicher Schools
at different locations in the country. These schools are recognized co-educational,
English medium schools, and are affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education.
The first school was built in the Alwar district of Rajasthan which is named as
the Alwar Public School in 1976-77. Eicher followed this by opening its second school
at Parwanoo, Himachal Pradesh, in 1993. A year later in 1994, the Eicher School
at Faridabad, Haryana, was inaugurated.
In its aim to reach the remote interiors of the Indian subcontinent and provide
education to the children in these rural areas, Eicher setup a foundation, which
would work on, as its focus, interventions for improvement in quality of education,
initially in the government primary schools in rural areas. Setup in 1996, this
foundation is named as the Goodearth Education Foundation (GEF).
In the field of healthcare, Eicher’s contribution took the form of management and
funding of the Dr. Shroff Charitable Eye Hospital, located in Delhi. Eicher has
been managing the operations of this hospital since the year 1996. Located in the
heart of Delhi, this hospital is a non-commercial, non-profit trust setup to enable
people from all walks of life and all sections of society to receive quality eye
care.