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Mar 13 2017March 9, 2017

Mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility in India: How Is It Working?

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The American Bazaar foresees exciting things for India’s philanthropic sector, based on a report called “India’s CSR: Taking Singles instead of Hitting Sixers,” which analyzes the latest trends in Indian philanthropy and corporate social responsibility (CSR). The new report analyzes “one of the world’s most interesting experiments to promote private philanthropy—the CSR requirement in the …

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Mar 11 2017March 9, 2017

NGOs highlight need of CSR funds in rehabilitating street kids

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The need to mobilise corporate funds to meet the challenges in rehabilitating street children was emphasised during a critical discussion involving various stakeholders, including NGOs. Mobilisation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds will help address the issue comprehensively and in a more structured manner as compared to time-bound international donor grants, said Luke Samson, director …

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Mar 10 2017March 9, 2017

Dividing Lines: Corporate governance – Lessons for the future

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A friend of mine, once a brilliant organisation theorist, told me three things threaten ethics in India. “First”, he said, “is the word sustainability.” He cynically claimed it is the last refuge of scoundrels, as nationalism was once. The word “sustainability” is seen so superficially, merely as an engineering exercise that the links to …

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Mar 9 2017March 9, 2017

Education, skill training top corporate social responsibility projects

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Education, skill development and poverty alleviation are the focus areas for money spent under corporate social responsibility (CSR) by various companies. Out of the total 696 CSR projects implemented in Gujarat during 2015-16, 253 were for education and skills sector followed by healthcare and poverty alleviation with 212 projects, states Gujarat CSR Outlook Report 2017.

Mar 8 2017

Heritage conservation yet to find favour with firms for CSR spend

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When central or state governments spend money on heritage conservation, their focus is on tourism, experts say. Efforts to conserve India’s cultural heritage and art forms, by the government as well as corporates, are far from adequate as preservation of traditional knowledge is not a priority and an absence of funding means a number of …

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