Education and Skill Training

National Technology Day is being celebrating across India today to honour scientists and engineers. The beginnings of this national holiday, however, are less benign. May 11 is when the Indian Army conducted three nuclear tests at the Pokhran Test Range in Rajasthan in the year 1998. The code name was Operation Shakti. There were...

CSR in Bihar needs a lift from India Inc. The third-largest state in India, Bihar boasts rich cultural ties and houses ancient places of worship for Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs and Jains. However, unemployment is rampant in Bihar. Its fertile plains stand on the lower rungs of corporate social responsibility, with spends amounting to merely...

As part of our #LetsTalkCSR series doing a deep dive into social initiatives by top corporates, let's explore the CSR of ITC. The Group headquartered in Kolkata sits proudly on our list of top companies for CSR in 2020. Another report by Goodera ranked ITC Limited as the 7th largest spender on Corporate Social Responsibility...

The land where milk and honey flow freely, Chandigarh is the capital of the states of Punjab and Haryana. It has the distinction of being a Union Territory at the same time. Chandigarh was the dream city of India's first Prime Minister, Jawahar Lal Nehru. The expansive city was planned by the famous French...

IIFL Foundation, the CSR arm of financial services group IIFL, runs one of India’s largest girl child education programmes – Sakhiyon Ki Baadi (SKB). Spread across 1200 remote schools in Rajasthan, SKB has been able leverage the digital medium to impart seamless education to over 36,000 girls during the pandemic. SKB schools are dedicated to...

Murshidabad is a hotly contested parliamentary constituency in the West Bengal elections. In the 2014 elections, Badaruddoza Khan of CPM had won from this constituency with a vote share of 33.15%. No wonder Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is camping out here. Once known as Makhsudabad, it used to be the capital of Bangla, Odisha...

Starting with 1970, this April 22 marks the 51st Earth Day aptly themed ‘Restore our Earth’. Today, in the wake of the global pandemic, as countries and communities around the world come together to rebuild their economies, it is more important than ever before to focus on a ‘green and sustainable recovery’. The ‘people’...

DXC Technology announced a CSR collaboration with ICT Academy, a not-for-profit initiative of the Government of India in collaboration with the state Governments and Industries, to train 7,500 rural schoolteachers on digital teaching skills and 10,000 graduating women students on advanced IT skills. The Rural Teachers Empowerment Program will equip 7,500 schoolteachers with digital training...

Forty four meritorious needy students in Goa will now be able to pursue higher professional studies through the Vedanta Utkarsh Scholarship programme. The scholarship was awarded to the selected scholarship candidates, at the hands of Dr. Pramod Sawant, Chief Minister of Goa. The Goa Chief Minister commended Vedanta's CSR programmes and urged students to take...

Samsung India has announced that it is adding smart classes to 80 new Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) schools as part of its global Samsung Smart School CSR initiative, providing digital education to less-privileged students and fulfilling its vision of #PoweringDigitalIndia by empowering the next generation of young India. With this addition, smart classes set up...

Reliance Industries Limited. (RIL) has been one of the largest companies in India for the better part of the last two decades. It leads the corporate world in net profits every year. As CSR in India is mandatory as per the Companies Act 2013, The CSR Journal in its #LetsTalkCSR series is evaluating the...

Telangana is the youngest state in India, formed in the year 2014. It's a hotspot for tourists since its hospitality and multicultural society are world-famous. Hyderabad, the capital city of this state is the fifth largest city in India and home to some of India's best educational institutions, public sector and software companies, defence...