Category : CSR

The Coca-Cola company’s seventh sustainability report says that the company could not achieve a goal of returning all water used in its manufacturing process to the environment by 2010. The company had aimed at treating the used water up to a level that

Although Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has allowed Posco to resume work, the steel plant does not seem to be coming up soon. The locals in Jagatsinghour, the proposed plant site, have intensified their agitation against the project. Criticizing Ramesh, Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti

Social impact and social entrepreneurship were the focus areas at the OP Jindal Memorial Lecture Series introduced by the Jindal Group in Mumbai. The event was primarily aimed at drawing the attention of corporate groups to increase their engagement in new forms of

‘Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is not just charity. It is like an obligation and we owe it to the next generation,’ said Union Minister of State for Corporate Affairs and Ministry of Minority Affairs Salman Khurshid while inaugurating a seminar ‘Corporate sustainability: the

‘If the government makes it mandatory that 50 per cent of the money being spent towards corporate social responsibility (CSR) will be used for massive afforestation, then millions of hectares of land will be covered by forests. ‘At the same time the government

PVR Nest, the CSR arm of PVR Ltd, was ‘highly commended’ under the Best Green Educational Project Category (Promoting Sustainable Development Issues)’ at Global Green Award 2010 in London. Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC – Let’s Grow (UK)bagged the award in the same category.

With Navi Mumbai airport getting the green signal from ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), what has been the annual home of migratory birds (over 150 species) is bound to get ruined. Bird species including Kenyan flamingo, Siberian ducks and ruddy turnstone, godwit,

The recently released ‘BT Sustainable Development (SD) Index – an assessment of business performance in India – 2009-10’ found Tata to be the best performer on sustainable development indicators. Conversely, according to a report titled Ethical Asia, by global research firm CLSA, the

The report by National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on November 19 revealed that a declining trend has been witnessed in child labour in Varanasi district between 1991 and 2001 (census reports). According to the NCPCR report, there were 43,320 child

In an effort to encourage environment-friendly production methods, the government is working out a comprehensive accounting standard on environmental reporting. It will soon be mandatory for companies to report measures taken to prevent environmental damage. Revising the guidelines on corporate social responsibility (CSR)