The CSR Journal

The Indian government introduced the Right to Education in 2009 and a lot is being done to ensure education but many foreseen and unforeseen hurdles block the way to the dream of an educated India. One of the many hurdles is child labour. Statistics showing the ground realities roar for attention. One child out...

With the mandate of Corporate Social Responsibility (wp) in India, there has been an urgent need of skilled professionals to carry out implementation of the law. A panel discussion was held in Mumbai, stressing on the need of having a well organised training centre in India that imparts knowledge and skill training to wp...

With the mandate of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in India, there has been an urgent need of skilled professionals to carry out implementation of the law. A panel discussion was held in Mumbai, stressing on the need of having a well organised training centre in India that imparts knowledge and skill training to CSR...

Anuradha Acharya is the CEO, Mapmygenome. She is currently serving as a governing board member at Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). While speaking with The wp Journal, she expressed the need to increase awareness about health and medical issues amongst employees. Taking into consideration the health scenario of the nation, which carries...

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) would soon prepare an action taken report on the suggestions of the high level committee that submitted its recommendations recently relating to the Corporate Social Responsibility (wp) norms. The committee constituted by MCA was chaired by former Home Secretary Anil Baijal. The report pertaining to review the current framework...

Top 100 listed Companies need to pull up their socks when it comes to their wp spend as well as being accurate with disclosures in their Business Responsibility Reports (BRRs) according to findings by two reports that have been published recently. A report by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GiZ) in collaboration with the...

Prajakta’s story is quite similar to many other young Indians who struggle in the job market because they lack the skills. After completing her graduation in 2008, Prajakta enrolled for a post graduation program in Travel and Tourism Management at Garware Institute. Her family’s financial crisis forced her to drop out of the course....

Having worked on conservation films that have made a difference I’ve been lucky to have experienced the impact a single idea can have. Recently a moving and powerful film called Blackfish came out and exposed the ‘dirty little secret’ that marine parks didn’t want us to know. The 90 minute documentary follows the story...

Water Defense, founded by Hollywood actor Mark ‘The Hulk’ Ruffalo has launched a campaign to support the oil clean-up efforts taking place in the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world. Last month an oil tanker capsized deep inside this UNESCO World Heritage site, spilling more than 350,000 liters of furnace oil into...

Rob Kutter, a sustainability consultant and PhD candidate at Arizona State University lived in India for 10 months to study beneficiary participation, a process in which community members become an integral part of the solution to a development problem. Kutter studied two development projects and found that there could be a causal relationship between...

Recently an ad on water conservation projects suggested how a middle aged woman in a village who used to walk long distances for water now could afford to use her free time to walk for fitness instead. Though work and health wise, this woman might have benefited immensely from this particular project, the situation...