The CSR Journal

Together for Sustainability (TfS), an initiative by global chemical companies to adopt sustainability measures and supply chains in chemical companies recently launched formally in India. A day long summit was organised in Mumbai in this regard. The summit aimed at building awareness around the importance of creating a sustainable supply chain in the chemical Industry....

The District Rural Development Agency is roping in partners – corporate sector and public sector units – for its efforts to ensure total sanitation in Vellore district. Collector S.A. Raman along with DRDA’s project director M. Manohar Singh had convened a meeting with representatives of a number of industries and banks. Representatives from BHEL, TVS, MRF,...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday lauded India for its "swift action" over the decision to ratify the Paris pact on climate change, saying he is looking forward to receiving New Delhi's instrument of accession. "The Secretary-General has made clear his hopes for the ratification of the Paris Agreement by a large number of states...

New Delhi: India formally joined the Paris Climate Change Agreement by submitting its instrument of ratification at UN headquarters in New York on Sunday - the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The instrument of ratification was deposited by India's permanent representative to the UN, Syed Akbaruddin. By putting Gandhi seal on the climate deal, the country will now urge the global community...

Aiming to transform 1,000 villages in the initial leg of the vision, Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis met corporate heads and Bollywood celebrities on Thursday. A governing council headed by CM would be formed with members from corporate and state. Industry moguls like chairman emeritus of Tata Sons Ratan Tata, Anand Mahindra, chairman and managing...

Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Monday told companies that half of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) money should be deposited into the CSR council fund maintained by the state government. "A cell will be formed and the government will spend money from the fund as per requirements. Panchayat Secretariat and UNICEF will monitor the...

In the 2016 Rio Olympics, shuttler PV Sindhu became the first Indian woman to win a silver medal; Sakshi Malik the first Indian female wrestler to win a medal (bronze), gymnast Dipa Karmarkar became the first Indian woman to feature in a gymnastics final, finishing fourth, and Lalita Babar became the first Indian woman...

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...