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Indian industry has sought special incentives from the government to help it invest 2% of their corporate social responsibility fund towards skilling the large number of youth that enter the country's workforce every year. This would ensure adequate capitalisation for government's Skill India programme and in turn reduce the burden on the exchequer a...

The Haryana government has framed a state-level Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) co-ordination committee on education with an aim to fill funding gaps in the government school projects. Considering the presence of a large number of corporate houses in the state, the Haryana government has formulated an implementation plan for its CSR policy, in a bid...

For optimal management of corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds, the state government is all set to constitute a 'Rajasthan CSR Authority'. Conceived on the lines of a similar body formed by the Gujarat government, the authority will act as a facilitator for industries to carry out their mandatory CSR activities in the state. The authority will...

The WPP India Corporate Social Responsibility Foundation launched its implementation programme to bring about holistic development in the lives of upto 20,000 underprivileged children and youth in Mumbai and Delhi in collaboration with its implementation partners Magic Bus and HOPE foundation, at a school in Andheri, Mumbai. This CSR initiative aims to empower children and...

In the words of UN Secretary- General Ban-Ki-moon, young people are almost three times more likely to be unemployed than adults. They are today exposed to lower quality of jobs, greater labour market inequalities and longer and more insecure school-to-work transitions. July 15 is World Youth Skills Day, and the United Nations is observing the day...

The majority of supply chain auditors across Asia have encountered child labour in the last two years, and in only a third of cases could they confirm the children were removed from the factories, a survey has found. Of 557 auditors polled, 64 percent encountered child labour during their on-site inspections in the last two...

Mumbai: The CSR Journal established a platform to honour individual social contributions through SWAG (Social Welfare & Growth) Awards, 2016 on July 8 in Mumbai. The news portal will take a leap forward with the launch of ‘The CSR Journal TV’ and a bimonthly magazine by early 2017 on (Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). These initiatives are...

At least 69 members of the ‘third gender’ have applied for the posts of lecturers and assistant teachers in colleges and schools for the first time in Uttar Pradesh. This is also the first time that the Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Service Selection Board (UPSESSB) is keeping the data on transgender applicants. As part of the...

An Indian social entrepreneur has been named among 10 "champions and pioneers" by UN Chief Ban Ki-moon under the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative that calls on companies to align with universal principles of human rights, environment and anti-corruption. Zubaida Bai, the founder of 'ayzh', a for-profit social venture providing health and livelihood solutions to...

Shri Sushilkumar Shinde was the Minister of Home Affairs and the Leader of the house in Lok Sabha until May 2014. He previously served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra and has been an outstanding agent of change in every role that he has played. A passionate advocate for social impact. While speaking at The...

State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Governor Ashraf Mahmood Wathra urged bank CEOs to set aside more funds for their corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. Speaking at a condolence gathering to pay homage to social worker Abdul Sattar Edhi at the SBP headquarters, Wathra said banks should donate generously to the foundation set up by the...

In April 2014, our Supreme Court recognized the third gender in a landmark judgement. However, not much is known about the aspirations, lives and struggles of our country’s transgender community. With the vision of giving them a voice - Abhina Aher, Urmi Jadhav and Madhuri Sarode founded The Dancing Queens in 2009. The Dancing Queens...