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Dubai Throws A Rope To Flood-Ravaged Kids At ‘3 Idiots’ School
‘Don’t ignore the North-East’ is Dubai resident Harsha Sawlani’s message for corporates, as she shoulders the fate of 42 children at the Druk school in Leh, in a reaffirming story about the power and reach of individual social responsibility.
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)
Modi On I-Day: Sanitation A Priority
SANITATION seems to have become the buzzword ever since Prime Minister Narendi Modi has assumed office, or perhaps even before. In his first, what could be called a thanksgiving speech at the ghats of the river Ganga after winning his Lok Sabha constituency earlier this year, Modi had empathetically emphasized on the need of...
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
From Entertainment to Energetics
Bollywood Filmmaker turned Author Mansoor H Khan believes that in order for wp to be more effective & holistic, Corporates need to educate themselves about 'Energy Accounting' because Energy, not Money is the true currency.
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
Plastic CSR
The universally dreaded plastic waste is now acquiring some ‘good-reuse-karma’.
Upcycling techniques have generated a great potential to design more sustainable CSR initiatives that can help clean up plastic waste, create useful products & generate fair trade employment opportunities
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
You Heard It Here First: Budget Paves Way For Mining Sector Revival
The wp Journal had first reported on the government’s plans for a new mining policy and its plans for the revival of the beleaguered sector in Budget 2014, last week.
Teaching A Man To Fish: ICICI Foundation’s Push For Skill Development
From working at coffee shops to applying paint, how ICICI Foundation is making vocational development the cornerstone of its wp activities