n 1947, when for India the idea of independence had just been realised, Robert (Bob) Pierce, a war correspondent in the Korean War, was moving around reporting in China. Pierce’s last stop was at the University of Amoy on Amoy (now Xiamen) Island in the Formosa Strait, where he was speaking to college students. Upon…
A week ago, a fully equipped ambulance came on Delhi roads with the purpose of ferrying needy patients and carrying out other social welfare activities. The ambulance is funded by Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) as part of its CSR programme. Earlier, the company had provided similar mobile medical units or ambulances to NGOs…
The system of granting environmental clearances to industrial and other projects has come under sharp criticism from the Supreme Court (SC). According to the court, the environment ministry had been letting private companies pay ‘a packet’ to their favourite experts to assess the environmental impacts of their projects and obtain approvals on their basis. The…
To identify and count the homeless in the Delhi, census enumerators had joined hands with NGOs to carry out a massive mapping exercise. The enumerators, nearly 30,000 of them (half of them women), and NGOs were involved in the process of counting the homeless after 8:30 pm. The homeless generally return to sleep at…
Talking-and-thinking points from the report ‘Sustainable and inclusive innovation ” strategies for tomorrow’s world’ by CII-ITC CESD “ part 3 The five steps to ‘Sustainable and Inclusive Innovations’, or SI2, have been identified as important for a company that wants to explore sustainability and inclusivity as drivers for innovation. The five steps are represented in…
Considering 2-5 per cent of net profits – several hundred crore of public money – is being spent on corporate social responsibility (CSR) by public sector undertakings (PSUs), there should be compulsory accountability of this money, opines Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE). SCOPE wants to make it mandatory for profit-making PSUs to get a…
‘As we are working for the transformation of India, many welfare schemes and infrastructure projects are being implemented under the public-private partnership model. This has meant that the administrator and the manager are working in partnership. Hence, businesses must incorporate social responsibility in their functioning, so that they can contribute to national objectives,’ said President…
Social outfits and members from the minority community shared their experiences of the 2002 Gujarat riots at a public hearing jointly organized by various NGOs on February 22. ‘The public hearing was organized in response to Maulana Vastanvi’s statement where he meant that everything was hunky-dory for the Muslims in Gujarat. He never condoned the…
EdelGive Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Edelweiss Capital Ltd, recently announced the winners of the Third EdelGive Social Innovation Honours (ESIH). Following a four-stage evaluation process, five NGOs were chosen for their innovative work in the areas of health and well-being, education, livelihoods, governance, and social and cultural rights of women. A prize money of…
Steel Authority of India (SAIL) and MARG Limited received India Shining Star CSR Award for exemplary contributions towards corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the iron and steel and infrastructure sectors, respectively, on February 21 in Mumbai. SAIL is a Navratna PSU and contributes more than two per cent of its net profit annually towards CSR….
