SAIL communities: Living as a coherent whole
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,
Environment clearance system akin to ‘paying the piper to call the tune’: SC
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
NGOs help census enumerators in counting the homeless in Delhi
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
A vision, two drivers and three approaches for sustainable innovations
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
CSR by PSUs: SCOPE proposes mandatory social audit
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).
CSR is a must for businesses’ contribution to national objectives: President
‘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
High-powered judicial commission recommended for cases of terror
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
Five NGOs receive EdelGive Social Innovation Honours
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,
CSR star awards for SAIL and MARG
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
Malnutrition in India: The intention is not mala fide
Can India halve its malnutrition rate by 2015 – which is a stated Millennium Development Goal (MDG)? Highly unlikely, would be the answer in the current scenario. Unless: The recognition of malnutrition as a critical area jumps out of policy documents, research notes