Wipro selected as member of Dow Jones Sustainability World Index

In Awards and Honours
September 29, 2015

Wipro has announced that it has been selected as a member of the global Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) – 2015 for the sixth year in succession. Wipro is included in both the DJSI World and Emerging Markets Indices. A total of 1,845 companies were assessed from around the world of which 317 have been chosen as the DJSI World constituents for the year 2015-16. The IT Services sector saw 76 companies participating globally of which 8 have been selected for the World Index.

DJSI

DJSI is a leading global indicator tracking the financial performance of companies across all industries that outperform on Sustainability.
The selection was done on the basis of an exhaustive, rigorous evaluation of Wipro’s sustainability performance on several dimensions spanning economic, environment and social sustainability – a few examples are Climate Change Performance, Corporate Governance, Innovation, Labor Practices and Digital Inclusion.
The DJSI follow a best-in-class approach, including companies across all industries that outperform their peers in numerous sustainability metrics.
Launched in 1999, DJSI are the first global indexes tracking the financial performance of the leading sustainability-driven companies worldwide.