Indian companies show interest in impact investing but face challenges: Deloitte CSR surveyDeloitte India's CSR preparedness survey reveals that only 28% of Indian organizations feel very prepared for impact investing, despite hig...
World needs India; Indian biz leading in investments in social causes: UN officialUnder the companies law, certain classes of profitable entities are required to shell out at least two per cent of their three-year annual ...
Focusing on supply of essentials to communities most affected by COVID-19 lockdown: Tata MotorsThe company has so far provided over 25,000 packets of cooked meals and over 5,000 grocery kits (ration) to migrants and stranded communiti...
CSR gets innovative with street plays for truck drivers, stock exchange bells for womenIndia is among the few countries to have a law requiring a large number of companies to mandatorily spend a portion of their profits on CSR...
CSR spending of Indian companies rises by 14% in 2 fiscals: SurveyThe survey said more number of corporates are using non-government organisations (NGOs) as implementing agencies for CSR spending.
Anant Goenka on making tyres more sustainable and caring for the communityTyres are made with environmentally unsustainable raw material such as carbon black and other oil based products.
MSRTC's 40-plus bus drivers to get mandatory medical check-upMSRTC will spend Rs 1.13 crore on medical checkups of these drivers, which began in November last year and will continue till March.
EWS housing, rural development to qualify for CSR norms: GovtBesides, slum re-development projects will also be covered under "measures for reducing inequalities faced by socially and economically bac...
Slum redevelopment a CSR activity: Ministry of Corporate AffairsSlum-redevelopment, road safety awareness & consumer protection services will be treated as CSR activities, according to clarifications iss...
New CSR law offers an opportunity to create a meaningful future in business-society relationshipsThe new law to allocate 2% of profits to CSR spends is an opportunity for companies to craft a new, meaningful future in business-society r...
CSR should not be done in patchy way: Tata Sons advisorTata group advisor has asked India Inc to undertake their CSR activities as a priority area, and not in a "patchy way".
RSP lights up the lives through Project SunayanaLife has changed for good for auto-rickshar driver Vinod Singh, a resident of Golghar area, due to an initiative by Rourkela Steel Plant.
- Cost mgmt and tax relief reasons for ethical practices
Cost management and tax relief, among others, are the main reasons cited by corporate houses in the country for implementing more ethical b...
- Bravo, Shiv Nadar: Conscious capitalism on its way
Giving away a part of personal wealth is not all that common in India, although religious charity is widespread.
- CSR should cover workplace, community and environment
Most Indian companies have a confused approach to CSR, dubbing it as philanthropy and veiling the underlying motive.
- Automated trains, black boxes in city's first metro corridor
Automated trains that can run from one station to another without the driver doing little beyond operating doors and a black box that can s...
- Smaller companies adopt employee centric policies to retain talent
A Grant Thornton report states that, around 65% of privately held businesses have cited retention pressures as their main CSR driver. Firin...