Mrs. Rajashree Birla is an exemplar in the area of community initiatives and rural development. She spearheads the Aditya Birla Centre for Community Initiatives and Rural Development, the Group's apex body responsible for development projects.

Mrs. Birla oversees the Group's social and welfare driven work across its companies. The footprint of the Centre's work straddles over 7,000 villages, reaching out to 9 million people. The Aditya Birla Group runs 20 hospitals and 5,000 medical camps treating over a million patients. Its 56 schools pan India impart quality education to over 46,500 children. Both its hospitals as well as schools are 'Not For Profit' institutions.

Mrs. Birla is the Chairperson of the FICCI - Aditya Birla CSR Centre for Excellence, Habitat for Humanity (India) and is on the Board of the Asia Pacific Committee as well as Habitat's Global Committee.

She is the Chairperson of FICCI's first ever Expert Committee on CSR. She serves on the Board of Director's CSR Committee of State Bank of India. She is on the Board of BAIF Development Research Foundation, Pune and Population First, Mumbai. She serves on the Akhil Bharatvarshiya Maheshwari Education Trust, Indore. As a patron of arts and culture, she heads the 'Sangit Kala Kendra', a centre for performing arts, as its President.

In recognition of the exemplary work done by Mrs. Rajashree Birla, leading national and international organisations have showered accolades upon her. Among these the most outstanding one has been that of the Government of India which bestowed the 'Padma Bhushan' Award in 2011 on Mrs. Rajashree Birla in the area of social work.

In recognition of Mrs. Birla's unrelenting endeavours towards polio eradication, Mrs. Pratibha Patil, the former President of India, honoured her with the much coveted 'Polio Eradication Champion' Award at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.

Mrs. Birla is a humanitarian par excellence, and compassion is her only currency. In acknowledgement of the family's continuing commitment to polio eradication and raising literacy levels in India, the portraits of Mr. Aditya Birla and Mrs. Rajashree Birla have been placed in the Rotary International Hall of Fame in Evanston, USA.

Mrs. Birla is a Director on the Board of all the major Aditya Birla Group of Companies; viz., Grasim, Hindalco and UltraTech Cement Ltd. Additionally, she serves as a Director on the Board of the Aditya Birla Group's International Companies spanning Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines and Egypt.