The CSR Journal

Just like every corporate feels the need to contribute to the society as a responsibility, CredAble spent time with the children, adults & elderly at the Cerebral Palsy Association of India (CPAI).  CredAble – a supply chain investment bank, partnered with the CPAI to contribute to the journey of differently abled. All the employees at...

In continuation of its commitment to make India TB free, Mission TB free Haryana, a flagship initiative of Medanta in collaboration with the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Central TB Division of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India and the Government of Haryana today launched ‘’TB Free Block Pataudi’’ to improve the...

Procter & Gamble (P&G) India today announced that it has set-up a ₹200 crore ‘Environmental Sustainability Fund,’ to collaborate with external partners offering environmentally sustainable business solutions. With this announcement, P&G also launched the second edition of ‘P&G vGROW External Business Partner Summit.’ vGROW is P&G’s first-of-its-kind platform to identify and collaborate with businesses...

Today, when the internet has become an integral part of the curriculum and management, schools need to carefully consider network safety to protect their data and their students’ confidential information. If trends across the world are anything to go by, then Educational Institutes including K12 schools are extremely vulnerable to data hacks. According to some...

On National Epilepsy Day, November 17, 2019, a consortium of 5 nationally renowned psychiatrists from the states of Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, came on board for a campaign to bring awareness among the common people through Facebook for Epilepsy management. An initiative by Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd which was spread across three days aggregated a total...

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL)’s Kochi Refinery employees are revolting against speculation about the company giving into privatisation. After FInance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stated that BPCL will be sold to a private entity by March 2020, employees and workers across the nation have joined hands to take a nationwide strike on November 28. BPCL, the...

The inaugural SDGs Impact Summit was held in New Delhi convening international delegates, panellists, change makers, activists and influencers rallying to propel the momentum of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. With only 10 years left to achieve the SDGs, the high-level international forum, conceptualised with a special focus on unlocking the innumerable...

Every minute we lose forest cover equivalent to 36 football fields. This means 13 million hectares of forest land disappear every year, an area equivalent to the size of Greece. The consequences are doubly negative for our planet: deforestation accounts for about 17% of Climate Change. The loss of forests has more impact on greenhouse...

Almost all the North East states and particularly Mizoram and Nagaland are least favoured destinations for corporate philanthropic activities in India in the form of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). According to data by provided by the Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman on November 18 in reply to a Starred Question in...

LIXIL, maker of pioneering water and housing products, has partnered with Toilet Board Coalition (TBC) to host Global Sanitation Economy Summit in Pune, India. With a vision to provide safe sanitation to 100 mn people across the world by 2025; LIXIL along with TBC has committed to draw attention to people in rural and...

On the occasion of World Toilet Day, Geneva-based Toilet Board Coalition (TBC) is hosting the Global Sanitation Economic Summit in Pune, India, from November 18, 2019, to November 21, 2019. The summit will provide business, investment and sanitation leaders at the forefront of the global Sanitation Economy with a platform to deliberate upon Sanitation...

As India pens its development story for the 21st century, it has a key advantage in its youth demographic. With a large pool of aspirational youth in the country, there is a need for opportunities to develop their skills. The government’s initiatives in skill development, entrepreneurship and platforms for innovations has witnessed many takers,...