Highway Touch Point. A CSR initiative?
In December, Union Textiles Minister Dharmendra Kashyap inaugurated Village TahTajpur’s Highway Touch Point (HTP), which is supposedly a social business venture focused at development of rural population. The idea is to allow villagers to manage the touch points where highway commuters can buy
How businesses did their bit towards the Tamil Nadu floods
In December, CauseBecause received updates from various corporate groups mentioning how they were coming forth with help and heart during the Tamil Nadu floods. Here’s a quick roundup on who did what and how (as per their own claims). Aviva Life Insurance relaxed
How businesses did their bit towards the Tamil Nadu floods
In December, CauseBecause received updates from various corporate groups mentioning how they were coming forth with help and heart during the Tamil Nadu floods. Here’s a quick roundup on who did what and how (as per their own claims). Aviva Life Insurance relaxed
They love their school now. How Godrej Interio’s CSR intervention is changing some basic things about rural schools
In September, Godrej Interio, the furniture brand of Godrej & Boyce, issued a media release claiming it is transforming the education experience in rural schools through space management, design, and ergonomics – new words for a press note on a corporate social responsibility
Baijal report on CSR. Neither music nor cacophony
Last month, CauseBecause through a right to information (RTI) query to the ministry of corporate affairs had learnt that the government did not have any specific mechanism to evaluate the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes of companies (read about it here).
Using Facebook as a medium, Caritas engages 120,000 for disaster preparedness
In the week leading up to the National Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, which was observed on 29 October, Caritas India observed Awareness Week on Disaster Preparedness and Reduction. The organisation – with about five decades of experience in emergency aid, reconstruction and
Show me a Hero
[dropcap size=big]I[/dropcap]n less than six months, the policy was revised, the impact areas were identified, and four flagship programmes with multiple projects under their umbrella were launched. The world’s largest two-wheeler maker, known for revolutionising mobility at the hinterlands through affordable motorcycles, has
Contractor refuses to collect ‘green tax’, says staff safety is at risk
South Delhi Municipal Corporation’s (SDMC) toll contractor (SMYR Consortium LLP) did not collect environment compensation charge (ECC) on commercial vehicles entering Delhi despite it being mandated by the Supreme Court (SC). In October, the Supreme Court (SC) had imposed ECC ranging from Rs
In India, more girls dying before the age of five than boys: UN report
The World’s Women 2015 report claims that the country with the lowest sex ratio in under-5 mortality is India, with a ratio of 93 (93 boys die before age 5 for 100 girls that die by that age). This is also the only
Yes Bank makes it to Dow Jones Sustainability Indices
Yes Bank, India’s fifth largest private sector bank, has been selected as an index component of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices in the Emerging Markets Index. The Index comprises of 92 companies from 14 emerging economies including China, Brazil, South Africa and Taiwan.