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CSR forests and staff drives across every IT campus

We plan, plant and care for trees for three years near your offices and on partner farms. Every tree is geo-tagged and reported on GreenTrack.

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400+ companies plant with us · 85% survival, program-wide · 14 states across India

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Site, saplings, tools and safety

85% survival

program-wide, geo-tag verified

400+ companies

plant with us

14 states

across India

Quick answer

What does an IT and technology company need from tree plantation?

Listed IT firms in the top 1,000 by market capitalisation must file a BRSR. Companies above the s.135 thresholds must spend 2% of average net profit on CSR. Data-centre and office electricity is scope 2, and trees do not reduce it. So IT firms need plantation that is verifiable CSR, engages staff in many cities and is reported honestly beside real emission cuts.

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What we deliver

Services for IT and technology

Planted, cared for for three years and reported on GreenTrack.

Multi-city staff drives

One plantation day across your offices, with sites, saplings, safety and photos handled for each city.

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CSR forests

Urban, Miyawaki and farm forests run as three-year CSR projects with geo-tagged trees.

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BRSR-ready reporting

Survival, location and species data in a format your sustainability and CSR teams can use.

ESG and BRSR →

GreenTrack dashboard

Live view of every tree and site for CSR committees, clients and employees.

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Client and partner gifting

A 2-3 ft sapling, planted and cared for three years, as a gift for clients.

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Farmer agroforestry

Fruit and timber trees on farms. Farmers keep the produce, up to 3× farm income.

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How a programme works

Five steps, from your goals to reports your CSR, ESG and leadership teams can use.

Goals, sites and budget
Species and planting plan
Planting with our team
Three years of care
GreenTrack reports

What you get

Site and species plan
Geo-tagged trees
Survival checks and replacement
Photos and field records
Reports for CSR and BRSR
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Programmes that fit

Pick the programme that suits your land, region and goals.

Projects across India

Every pin is a project with its own digital forest. Filter by programme or state, or search for a company.

Pins show the approximate area of each project, not exact plot locations. Updated 2026-10-07.

Programmes we have run

How companies planted with us, and what they got.

From the field

Planting, care and growth on our project sites.

Village women planting saplings at a Grow Billion Trees plantation drive

Employees planting and watering saplings at a corporate plantation drive

Corporate team group photo at a Grow Billion Trees plantation site

Freshly dug pits and saplings in rows at a plantation site

Volunteers planting saplings across a large plantation site

Community members kneeling to plant saplings along drip lines

Volunteers planting saplings beside drip irrigation lines

Large group planting trees together at a corporate plantation drive

People planting saplings across an open plantation site

Transparency

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IT and technology: what drives plantation

IT firms rarely have a plantation law of their own. The pull comes from CSR, SEBI reporting, client ESG questionnaires and staff who want to take part. The cards below set out each driver and where trees fit.

Driver	What it asks	How plantation helps	Source
CSR spending (Companies Act 2013, s.135)	Companies above ₹500 crore net worth, ₹1,000 crore turnover or ₹5 crore net profit spend 2% of average net profit of three years. A 2026 Bill, still with a Joint Parliamentary Committee, proposes a ₹10 crore profit trigger.	Yes: a three-year plantation can run as an environment CSR project with geo-tagged, survival-tracked records.	PRS: Corporate Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026
CSR impact assessment (CSR Amendment Rules, 2021)	Companies with a CSR obligation above ₹10 crore must get an impact assessment for each project above ₹1 crore.	Partly: GreenTrack survival and location data give the independent assessor clean evidence to work from.	PRS Monthly Policy Review, January 2021
BRSR (SEBI, 2021)	The top 1,000 listed entities by market capitalisation file a BRSR, mandatory from FY 2022-23.	Partly: plantation and biodiversity work is reported in BRSR; it does not change energy or emissions figures.	SEBI board memorandum on BRSR, April 2021
BRSR Core and value chain (SEBI circular, 2025)	Assessment or assurance of BRSR Core reaches the top 1,000 listed entities in FY 2026-27. A green credits indicator was added.	Partly: plantation is not an assured emissions KPI, but documented projects support the green credits question.	SEBI circular, 28 March 2025
Scope 2 electricity (GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance)	Report emissions from purchased electricity, which for IT firms means offices, campuses and data centres.	No: trees do not reduce scope 2. Only efficiency, renewable power and better data-centre design do.	GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance
Net-zero and science-based targets (SBTi)	Cut emissions across the value chain. SBTi says beyond value chain mitigation is not a substitute for those cuts.	Partly: plantation can be reported as a contribution beyond your targets, never as progress toward them.	SBTi: Beyond Value Chain Mitigation

Keep data-centre power and trees in separate columns

Most of an IT company's footprint is electricity for offices and data centres. Trees do not reduce that scope 2 figure, and claims that they do will not survive a client audit.

Report plantation as CSR and biodiversity work. Track carbon only as an estimate. Our net-zero page explains how to present it next to real reduction work.

Run one drive across many cities

Teams sit in Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Gurugram and Noida. A single employee plantation programme can give each office its own site and date, with results in one GreenTrack dashboard.

Urban and Miyawaki forests near offices suit volunteering days. Farm-based agroforestry suits larger CSR budgets, and farmers keep the fruit and timber income.

Answer client questionnaires with records, not photos

Clients and global parents increasingly ask suppliers for ESG evidence. Geo-tagged trees, three years of survival checks and a BRSR-ready report answer those questions faster than a press release.

Questions IT and technology companies ask

Can trees make our data centres carbon neutral?

No. Data-centre electricity is scope 2, and trees do not reduce it. Cut it through efficiency and clean power, and report plantation separately as CSR or a contribution beyond your targets.

Does plantation count as CSR for an IT company?

Plantation is commonly run as an environment project under CSR. Your CSR committee approves it, and we provide geo-tagged records and three years of survival data. See our CSR checklist.

Can we run one drive across several cities on the same day?

Yes. We plan a site and team for each office location and report all of them in one GreenTrack dashboard.

We are a GCC of a global parent. Can our results feed group reporting?

Yes. We share tree-level data, survival rates and carbon estimates your group team can include in its own sustainability report.

How do we answer a client ESG questionnaire about trees?

Use the GreenTrack report: number of trees, locations, species and survival. State carbon as an estimate and keep it apart from your emissions figures.

What does a plantation programme cost?

Pricing depends on the number of trees, the location and the programme. Each tree is a 2-3 ft sapling, planted, geo-tagged and cared for three years. Larger programmes are priced per project after a site survey.

Do you sell carbon credits from these trees?

No. We do not sell carbon credits from these plantations. Carbon figures we share are estimates.

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