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COVID-19 Changing the Perception of ESG Among Indians

ESG or Environmental, Social and Governance has been gaining prominence with global conglomerates in the past decade. However, Indian firms were procrastinating on ESG reporting. Although it goes hand in hand with the principles of responsible business and corporate social responsibility, the perception of ESG was that of a prestige product. Such notions are...

CSR Funds Cannot be Used To Vaccinate the Employees: Ministry of Corporate Affairs

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has rejected the proposal by corporates regarding directing the CSR funds for vaccinating the employees of the company. As India was engaged in combating the COVID-19 in the last year, there was a need for comprehensive collaboration for effective implementation of containment strategies. In order to ensure that this is...

New CSR Project For Truck Drivers to Ride Easy

Truck drivers have a thankless job. They trudge long and winding roads alone for a paltry sum. The terrain is often treaacherous, challenging their very lives if they take one wrong turn or fall asleep at the wheel. They brave extreme weather to transport goods for people they will never meet. Truckers are exposed...

Shallu Jindal Backs Girl Child Education with Reconstruction of a 114-year-old School

As Chairperson of JSPL Foundation, the executing arm of Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) Group CSR activities, Shallu Jindal is on a mission. She is committed to empowering women and educating children, especially young girls, in the villages. Ms. Jindal said, “Empowering the girl child with education is the best and the wisest...

Global Commercial Players in Floating Wind Technology

Offshore wind has enormous potential and is expected to play a big role in future energy mix. However, 80% of the world’s offshore wind resource potential lies in waters deeper than 60 metres. To fully harvest the global offshore wind potential and expedite the energy transition and maintain a 1.5°C pathway in line with...

Why Vaccinating Own Employees Cannot be Considered as CSR

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a major upheaval to the country’s economy. The capitalists of the country are used to having a profitable mindset and have felt a lot of discomfort at the change in workplace dynamics. So many employees across the country have been laid off because of the lockdowns and limited attendance...

National Consumer Rights Day: Financial Fraud Awareness Campaigns by Financial Institutions in India

December 24th is celebrated as National Consumer Rights Day every year in India. It was on this day in the year 1986, that the Consumer Protection Act was passed, which is considered to be a milestone in the consumer movement in the country. The day is celebrated to highlight the importance of the consumer...

CSR Initiative to Address Period Poverty Amid COVID-19

As the country went under lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19, access to several essential items became difficult for the poor sections of the society. Several organizations as well as the government took measures to aid the people by providing them with basic groceries and other essentials. However, many a time, menstrual hygiene...

Reimagining Human Mobility on International Migrants Day 2020

India has the largest number of migrants living abroad. The latest World Migration Report says that a whopping 17.5 million global citizens come from India. India also tops the list of remittance recipient countries (remittance being the act of sending money elsewhere). Indians living abroad sent home US $78.6 billion in the year 2020,...

Netherlands Embassy in India fighting domestic violence

Incidences of domestic violence are on the rise during the COVID-19 pandemic. As families went into lockdown, incidences of atrocities on wives and children within the four corners of the house increased. There is no better way to halt this injustice than women empowerment. A woman who is economically and psychologically empowered can speak...

Should Corporates Deploy CSR Funds to Inoculate Employees Against COVID-19?

The COVID-19 vaccine is on top of everyone’s minds right now, including those operating in the domain of corporate social responsibility. Biocon chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has asked the Indian government to allow corporates to utilise CSR funds to inoculate employees in their own organisations. Other industrialists are cheering Mazumdar-Shaw for making the request, while...

Five Years after Paris Agreement: India’s Role in Addressing Climate Challenges

It has been five years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. However, the world is not even close to achieving the climate goals that would limit the temperature rise below 1.5 degree Celsius. India is a developing country which faces a multitude of problems with respect to pollution and the environment....

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