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Club Mahindra launched an annual initiative - Mission S.M.I.L.E.S. (Social Movement to Improve Life Experiences) under its Employee Social Options Program (ESOP). As part of this all Club Mahindra employees pledged to cumulatively devote 5000 hours annually in Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives focusing on education, health and environment. To begin with, 180 employees and Club...

The CSR mandate has encouraged many corporates to take up the matter of social, national and environmental development in their own hands. Instead of associating themselves with a non-profit or an NGO, many corporates have established their own foundations to overlook the activities of it and utilized the foundation to demonstrate their contribution to...

Aiming to highlight issues related to gender equality at workplaces in India, Global Compact Network India – Local arm of UN Global Compact, New York organized its second edition of Gender Equality Summit Friday at Saket, New Delhi. The summit was organized in the backdrop of the increasing conversation around the safety of women in...

It only took one video of animals suffering and dying in the meat industry to convince me to go vegetarian,” says Bollywood actor Kartik Aaryan. “The kindest thing anybody can do for cows, pigs, chickens, and all animals is to stop eating them. With baby chicks perched on his hand, Pyaar Ka Punchnama star and...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is increasingly central to a company’s reputation. Hence, businesses must integrate CSR into their public relations (PR) strategy to achieve success. According to a recent survey from Clutch, most people expect businesses in every industry to commit to CSR. To be effective, however, CSR efforts must appear to emanate from a...

“The fate of industrially farmed animals is one of the most pressing ethical questions of our time. Tens of billions of sentient beings, each with complex sensations and emotions, live and die on a production line,” says author Yuval Noah Harari in his New York Times bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.   Choosing...

It is not so difficult to install business ethics when the business is flourishing. It gets difficult to hold on to ethics when the business is facing a downfall. It is during times like these when companies take reckless decisions. The hard time in business causes executives to become insecure making them hold off...

By Shreya Deb, Maddie Holland and Sonam Agrawal Poverty in India is changing. Since independence, while India has made progress in reducing its overall poverty rate, urban poverty has increased, driven primarily by people migrating to cities from rural areas in search of opportunity. Between 1973 and 2004, the share of India’s urban poor increased...

Tech Mahindra Foundation under its Employability vertical has launched Tech Mahindra SMART Academy for Healthcare in Mumbai. Its third SMART Academy is in association with Auxilium Convent School, Pali Hill, which was conceptualized following the success of the first two healthcare academies in New Delhi and Mohali. Inspired with Tech Mahindra Foundation’s CSR mandate of...

The workshop calls for Non-Profit organisations, CSR Professionals, researchers and students to get trained by academicians, practitioners and thought leaders of various Departments and Faculties from TISS and its affiliate institutions. A developing country such as India has a lot of social issues that need to be addressed. Several organisations are constantly working towards it...

By Rajeev Nair (Principal Associate) & Nishant Sogani (Associate), Rajani Associates Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in India is governed by the Companies Act, 2013 (Act) under Section 135 which mandates every company having (i) net worth of INR 500 crore or more, or (ii) turnover of INR 1,000 crore or more, or (iii) a net profit of INR...

Assam’s employment opportunities are inadequate and inaccessible. Unemployment rates are increasing and economic growth is limited to the cities. Alternatives to agricultural employment are focused in major cities, fueling a prominent urban/rural economic gap. Unemployment is the root cause of increasing crime and terrorism in the Northeast. The way out is creating employment opportunities for...