Category : CSR

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has sought assistance from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for a project to build houses for the economically weaker population in the capital. ‘I don’t know whether the USAID will help us in this regard.

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs will soon come out with a sustainability reporting framework for companies to ensure that they follow certain parameters while meeting environmental challenges. ‘Any corporate body while they perform, while they do corporate social responsibility, they should also ensure certain

Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has announced an offer of Rs 990 crore to the Women and Child Development Ministry for its women empowerment programmes in gram panchayats. In his words, ‘We can start with the most backward Naxal-affected districts or districts where

‘Are your corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes misleading? ‘ was the straight question that CauseBecause asked Coca-Cola and Pepsi a day after a PLoS Medicine article pointed fingers at beverage makers saying their CSR is another one of their tactics to gain public

Come Monsoon session, the 56-year-old Companies Bill incorporating social responsibility obligations on corporate houses will be rewritten. Although the government, amid stiff resistance from the corporate world, is not making the CSR obligation compulsory, it is putting a moral obligation on companies to

In an interaction with media representatives in Imphal, capital of Manipur, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh turned the spotlight on state governments for failing to implement social audits of key welfare schemes, several of these with an outlay of millions of dollars. In

Mandatory corporate social responsibility (CSR) spend would become a law for the first time anywhere in the world, if the recommendations of the Parliament’s standing committee on finance, headed by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yashwant Sinha, are accepted by the Lok Sabha. The

‘This year, the World Environment Day theme is Green Economy: Does it include you? This highlights that the green economy is an essential rethink to the way we do business, if we are to create a brighter future. But more importantly, the theme

The Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Praful Patel yesterday made public the information on funds allocated and utilized towards corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of central public sector enterprises (CPSEs). The minister shared details of all expenses made towards CSR till September 2011.

Nearly half of all child deaths in India are caused due to premature births, making it the second leading cause in the country, claims a report by international NGO Save the Children. The number one cause is pneumonia.   The report, ‘Born Too