The CSR Journal

ALLCARGO Logistics, through its NGO Avvashya Foundation, has inaugurated the Leprosy Elimination Action Project (LEAP) at Koproli Primary Health Centre (PHC). The project was launched with a vision to support the people of Koproli who are victims of leprosy along with helping them in their economical development. Association for Leprosy Education, Rehabilitation & Treatment...

THE new building of Veda Vidyalaya, constructed with support from Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSPL), has been inaugurated at Siddhamath, Keonjhar on Friday July 4, 2014. Mr. T. S. Shanbhogue, EVP & Unit Head of JSPL Barbil and Mr. Pratap Chandra Hota, Sub – Collector, Kendujhar Sadar inaugurated the building in a spiritual...

TATA-DHAN Academy, the Development Management school, has sought individual and institutional sponsors for the current batch of their students. Any sponsorships provides an able candidate to study the relevant professional course for his upliftment and in turn, that of several others. The Academy has taken a commitment from the sponsored students to work for...

Allcargo Logistics, through its in-house NGO Avashya Foundation has succesfuly executed an extensive tree plantation drive in Sanjay Gandhi National Park and Gorai village of Mumbai. In collaboration with NGO Jaag, the team has planted over 200 trees in Sanjay Gandhi National Park and 250 trees in Gorai in the first phase of their environment sustainability...

AHEAD of the Union Budget, the ministry of New and Renewable Energy is batting for several incentives for the wind power industry including providing additional funding, steps to increase the corpus under National Clean Energy Fund, enforcement of renewable purchase obligation and timely payment of electricity generated from wind projects are on the table...

IT has been a little over a year since a natural calamity of catastrophic proportions hit Uttarakhand in which almost 5000 people died and more than 2500 houses were completely destroyed. But the state and its citizens people have barely recovered from the effects of the flash floods, especially those living farther inland.   Now to...

THE Coca-Cola Company and its Foundations, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced the expansion of ‘Project Last Mile’ to include 10 African countries over the next five years. This public-private partnership – currently focused on Tanzania...

UNION Minister for Environment, Forests & Climate Change Prakash Javadekar today met with a six member French delegation led by Foreign Affairs and International Development Minister Mr. Laurent Fabius in New Delhi. During the discussions Mr. Javadekar said part of the Green Climate Fund could be utilized to finance differential cost of IPRs (Intellectual...

AS its fundraising and development efforts gain traction, IIMA, today, made its first tranche of announcements relating to support that has been committed by and agreed to with leaders in corporate and Government institutions. Put together, these collaborations, where the agreements have already been signed and the contributions have started coming in, will pool...

GAIL (India) Limited initiated implementation of a slew of relief measures for the affected families and villagers of Nagaram. This is following the tragic gas pipeline incident in which nineteen people lost their lives and several were injured. The compensation of Rs. 20 lakhs per deceased and Rs. 50,000/- to each of the 19 injured, totaling...

TATA Power, India’s largest integrated power company, has been undertaking numerous initiatives to spread awareness on safety not only at the workplace, but also in the community. In line with this, the Company has undertaken various initiatives to sensitise and educate locals residing around high-voltage transmission lines as part of its ‘Jan Jagruti Abhiyan’....

2015 is set to be a crucial year in the fight against climate change. Time is short, but the love is strong, say the folks at The Climate Coalition. Everyone loves something that could be affected by climate change. Our families, our beaches, the food we eat, woods and forests… but we have a chance...