Page 5 - Corporate Social Responsibility

Coronavirus: TAFE offers 3,000 tractors for rent-free use by UP farmers

Tractor major to provide tractor, farm implements for rabi season

How Indian companies are contributing to the war against coronavirus

Corporate India is donating crores of rupees, supplying medical equipment and opening hospitals. Here's a look at some of the Business Groups that have opened their purse strings

CSR in the time of coronavirus

PM-CARES offers a handy panacea for CEOs' CSR headaches

Coronavirus: Hyundai Motor's CSR arm ordering testing kits from Korea

The company continues to monitor the situation closely and support the Indian government with multi-layered CSR initiatives

Companies offer to help fight Covid-19 will be treated as CSR activity

Schedule VII includes funds such as the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund and Swachh Bharat Kos

Facebook, N/Core to empower women entrepreneurs with its CSR initiative

Facebook Pragati will award four grants of up to Rs 50 lakh for each non-profit to scale their work

Hard-sell on Women's Day

The anniversary has become a commercialised event

Individuals lead the way in philanthropy, even as firms' contribution falls

Contribution from foreign sources, domestic corporations has slowed

CSR spending: Rise in number of firms going beyond 2% mandate, says report

Companies who are not required to spending allocating budgets for CSR are spending

Ease of living, in a punitive state

Under this government, slogans, memes, catchphrases, alliterative coinages, and clever abbreviations abound. One of them being repeated ad nauseam is ease of living

The 'social' aspect of ESG

The debate on diversity is expanding to include ethnicity, disability and sexual orientation, not only on board but also in senior management

HCL Foundation invests more than Rs 160 crore in community projects in UP

UP accounts for 2/3rd of the Foundation's activity spend

Just contributing money is not what govt expects through CSR, says Srinivas

What we urge upon you (companies) is proactive participation and not passive participation, said Corporate Affairs Secretary Injeti Srinivas

Aligning the CSR mandate

Corporations are careful to synchronise their social programmes with signals from the Union government

Stimulus package is a well-designed boost for economy: Chandrajit Banerjee

This is indeed a comprehensive package which shows that the finance ministry has been keeping its ears close to the ground

How social impact companies may help tap impact investment funds

The high-level committee on CSR recently released a report that recommended the creation of a new class of companies called social impact companies (SICs) under the CSR framework

CSR law flawed, India needs inclusive growth: US professor Aneel Karnani

There is no attempt by the government nor the press to even attempt to measure the outcomes

Breaking down companies

In today's world, who do companies really have to respond to?

Letter to BS: CSR committee wants non-compliance a civil offence

Replacing criminal responsibility with civil ones will ensure there is greater willingness from corporates to achieve a social objective

No jail, CSR non-compliance should be a civil offence: Govt-appointed panel

Recent policy had provided for a 3-year jail term for violations