Business Ethics & Philanthropy
What’s with your CSR Agenda?
How should Corporations form their CSR Policy and Agenda? Professor Chetan Baxi- author of two books on CSR, and former Director, MDI explores the challenges pertaining to CSR Policy & Agenda formulation and lays down some crucial guidelines.
Head And Shoulders Above The Rest: Tata Group’s Windfall Spend
Tata Group spent staggering Rs. 8000 crore on sustainability and social causes in last 10 years, looks to expand, standardize standard operating processes for all group companies
41 CPSEs Failed To Comply With CSR Norms
The Comptroller & Audit General of India (CAG) has revealed a ‘serious lack of initiative, implementation and desire to implement Corporate Social Responsibility’ scheme in at least 41 out of 110 central public sector enterprises (CPSE’s)
Opinion: Why India Needs A CSR Index
Given that we are mandating corporations to spend money on us, we as a society would be better off if we had a way of measuring it
BHEL to set up 10 MW Solar Power Plant at Shivanasamudram
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has bagged a prestigious order valued at Rs.68 Crore for setting up a 10 MWpGrid connected Solar Power Plant for Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL). The Solar Power Plant will be set up at Shivanasamudram, Belakavadi Village in Mandya District of Karnataka. BHEL’s scope of work in the turnkey contract envisages...
Effective Communication: A Challenge For CSR
wp communication teams are finding it a daunting task to devise effective communication strategies for initiatives, and to find impactful spaces in which to showcase them
Giving Drive to Truck Drivers
India today has a cumulative trucking fleet capacity of over 3.3 million vehicles but over 20 percent of vehicles are lying idle because there aren’t enough skilled drivers to ensure their commercial utilisation. 10 companies came together & took up a wp initiative improve the situation
Weaving Hope: wp Lifts Banaras Weavers Out Of Penury
Long before the spotlight turned on Banaras after Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose the temple town as his constituency, handloom weavers of Banaras found support, patronage, and deliverance from near extinction from the Taj Group of Hotels
North Block Mulls Over wp Taxation
IDEALLY, a good deed shouldn’t expect anything in return. But with 2 percent of their profits being diverted to Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives under mandatory legislation, even the most generous of qualifying companies are looking to minimize the effect of the blow to their coffers.
Sources in the Corporate Affairs Ministry confirm heavy lobbying is...
The Unsafe Road: IRF Bats For wp Tax Benefits
In a communication to the Finance Minister, the international roads advocacy group has demanded 100 percent tax exemption for corporate houses, NGOs, industry, individuals in its road safety programmes
‘I’ll Hold The Moon In One Hand, Bread In The Other’
They still call him Raj the Cycle Chalao guy in some parts. But today, Raj Jaganam has covered 200 km of villages, to find and fund the best of early-stage social entrepreneurs till they find their footing
The challenge of finding a credible partner
At the surface level, it seems to be an initiative which only has brownie points to showcase. And in formal conversations, no stakeholder is holding back any praising term to underline the good intentions it quintessentially carries. Corporate Social Responsibility (wp) laws which came into the effect this April and provisions for a mandatory...
