Tata Steel has been actively promoting excellence in education in the schools of the steel city by extending the Tata Business Excellence Model to create an Education Excellence Model. It has instituted the Dr. J. J. Irani Education Excellence Award to encourage all schools to aspire to serve the children better. This includes a cash prize for the school.

The Company donated a building on a 71-acre campus to the Xavier Institute for Tribal Education (XITE) in an endeavour to assist less privileged tribal students improve their quality of life. It also assist the Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), a premier management institute in Jamshedpur.

In the pre-independence days, Tata Steel launched the "Art in Industry" camps inviting the country’s leading artists to come together to create individual works of art in the steel city of Jamshedpur. The initiative continues today as an annual art camp, where the art lovers of the steel city get an opportunity to watch masters at work.

The Company’s art collection is, today, among the oldest and virtually charts the history of modern Indian art. The collection has been catalogued and restoration work undertaken, if necessary.

At Jamshedpur, the Company has created the Jamshedpur School of Art for the fine arts and also supports centres of performing arts and culture as an extremely generous sponsor. Support through the Tata Group has facilitated many more such centres across the country including the prestigious National Centre for Performing Arts, Mumbai.