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New Delhi: India formally joined the Paris Climate Change Agreement by submitting its instrument of ratification at UN headquarters in New York on Sunday - the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The instrument of ratification was deposited by India's permanent representative to the UN, Syed Akbaruddin. By putting Gandhi seal on the climate deal, the country will now urge the global community...

It is essential to align core and job-specific competencies with values and in turn capture organizational values as core competencies. The same can be communicated and developed in corporate citizens at every talent management touch point and reinforcing corporate culture. In recent years, Government of India has also recognized the need to impart education...

Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports Vijay Goel said in Rajyasabha on Tuesday that his ministry is communicating with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to widen the scope of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the sports sector by revising the existing norms. The ministry is trying to expand the horizon, of CSR in...

Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Monday told companies that half of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) money should be deposited into the CSR council fund maintained by the state government. "A cell will be formed and the government will spend money from the fund as per requirements. Panchayat Secretariat and UNICEF will monitor the...

The corporate social responsibility (CSR) expenditure of 2014-15 could have been more by Rs 2444.6 crore had 266 companies spent their mandated CSR funds. Reply to an RTI filed by Factly stated so. Minister of Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley had mentioned that 460 companies spent Rs 6,337 crore in first year of implementation of...

In the 2016 Rio Olympics, shuttler PV Sindhu became the first Indian woman to win a silver medal; Sakshi Malik the first Indian female wrestler to win a medal (bronze), gymnast Dipa Karmarkar became the first Indian woman to feature in a gymnastics final, finishing fourth, and Lalita Babar became the first Indian woman...

Indian industry has sought special incentives from the government to help it invest 2% of their corporate social responsibility fund towards skilling the large number of youth that enter the country's workforce every year. This would ensure adequate capitalisation for government's Skill India programme and in turn reduce the burden on the exchequer a...

‘HELP Animals & Birds Hospital’ in Mumbai is one of the few charitable hospitals in the city focusing specially on stray animals. It was started by Jayesh Shah a businessmen whose fondness for animals led to inception of this hospital. Jayesh Shah founder - HELP Animals & Birds Hospital’ An incident compelled Shah to do something...

The Haryana government has framed a state-level Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) co-ordination committee on education with an aim to fill funding gaps in the government school projects. Considering the presence of a large number of corporate houses in the state, the Haryana government has formulated an implementation plan for its CSR policy, in a bid...

For optimal management of corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds, the state government is all set to constitute a 'Rajasthan CSR Authority'. Conceived on the lines of a similar body formed by the Gujarat government, the authority will act as a facilitator for industries to carry out their mandatory CSR activities in the state. The authority will...

At least 69 members of the ‘third gender’ have applied for the posts of lecturers and assistant teachers in colleges and schools for the first time in Uttar Pradesh. This is also the first time that the Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Service Selection Board (UPSESSB) is keeping the data on transgender applicants. As part of the...

Today is the day when it all started... the day when The CSR Journal was launched in 2014. We are celebrating our second anniversary and you, our audience, have made it possible to keep us going. We couldn't possibly have a celebration without you. Today we would like to publish something rather different. An insight...