Triumph: Spreading road-safety awareness, one pit stop at a time
A Jammu to Kanyakumari ride promoting safer riding techniques across India was flagged off in May this year by Triumph Motorcycles. The veteran motorcyclist Varad More is undertaking this journey on behalf of the company. During this ride, Varad will be demonstrating road-safety
TAKE Solutions: Restoring water bodies, saving environment
An initiative to adopt several ponds and lakes, clean water bodies, plant trees, and educate the local community about maintaining natural resources has been taken up by TAKE Solutions in partnership with Environmentalist Foundation of India (EFI) across Tamil Nadu. The water body
Bharti Foundation: Girl power delivers great results
Sixteen girls scored 90 per cent and above, and girls topped in all five Satya Bharti Adarsh Senior Secondary Schools, located in Punjab, in this year’s Class X CBSE board exams. Girls also dominated the list of subject-wise toppers by scoring the highest
Newgen Software Technologies: Digitally enhancing the learning process
Recently, Newgen Software released its first annual CSR report. As the name suggests, Newgen provides software applications and digital solutions for businesses in areas such as business process management, enterprise content management, customer communication management, and case management. The company’s CSR mission is
Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India: Protecting children, saving lives
Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt. Ltd (HMSI) recently felicitated 28 officials of Railway Protection Force (RPF) for their effort in protecting children from child abuse and other risks at railway stations in Delhi. This is part of the Surakshit Bachpan programme of
EDII: Starting up livelihoods through start-ups
A Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP), which is a sub-scheme of the ministry of rural development’s National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM), aims to create around 36,000 rural enterprises by 31 March 2021. This programme was started in 2015″16 by the Entrepreneurship Development Institute
WHO: Nurturing children, building nations
The World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and the World Bank, in collaboration with the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health and the Early Childhood Development Action Network, recently launched a Nurturing Care Framework for Early Childhood Development at the 71st World Health
CSR: Responsibility towards society or government?
Last month, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about including contribution from businesses to the chief minister’s relief fund (CMRF) as money spent on CSR activities. Currently the 2013 CSR Act only considers donations to the Prime
CSR of healthcare companies: Health(care) is wealth
Companies covered: Apollo Hospitals | Cipla | Dr Reddy’s Laboratories | Fortis | ICICI Lombard | Max India | Piramal Healthcare | Sun Pharma | Wockhardt Here, we take a look at the CSR strategies and activities embraced by some of the country’s
Pradan: Lofty goals, vague strategies
Recently, a press release reached CB’s inbox which declared the NGO Pradan’s ‘audacious goal to empower ten million women in rural Indian communities to improve their own circumstances to celebrate 35th anniversary.’ Suffice to say, the only thing not audacious about this statement