State-owned CIL expenditure on corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives increased 36.5 per cent to Rs 497 crore in the April-January period of the current financial year. Coal India Ltd (CIL) spent Rs 364 crore in the year-ago period, a company official said. CIL, which accounts for over 80 per cent of domestic coal production, directs over 70 per cent of its CSR funds toward healthcare, nutrition and sanitation and education and livelihood, the official said. As the highest CSR spender among Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSEs) for the past five years, CIL spent Rs 572 crore to CSR activities in the last fiscal year alone, the company said in a statement. The company's CSR initiatives have positively impacted over 35 million lives so far, it said. The coal behemoth has spent Rs 5,570 crore in CSR initiatives over the past decade. The company recently received the Golden Peacock CSR Award 2024 at the 19th International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility
Most of the CSR fund, which should ideally be spent for the benefit of the society, remains unutilised and is redirected to other government funds, Union Minister of State for Corporate Affairs Harsh Malhotra here said. According to Malhotra, who is also the Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways, the government mandates companies to spend 2 per cent of their annual profit on social causes and welfare. He made the remarks addressing the Healthcare CSR ChangeMakers Summit and Awards 2024, organised by HEAL Foundation. "Most CSR funds remain unutilised and are redirected to other government funds. CSR funds are allocated across 12 categories including education, health and Art and Literature. Proper utilisation of CSR funds could significantly benefit the society," the minister said, according to a statement by the NGO. He also praised HEAL Foundation's CSR initiatives in health and its support to marginalised athletes who won medals at international level. He highlighted
This data covers all companies listed on the NSE and those exclusively listed on BSE with a market capitalisation exceeding Rs 1,000 crore
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Commending the socially conscious people, especially the corporates, for their contributions, he termed it as a responsibility of the country to recognise these individuals
Stating that environmental causes accounted for less than a tenth of corporate social responsibility (CSR) funding between 2015 and 2021, the International Climate Collaborative (ICC) on Thursday launched a dedicated platform to help funnel more resources for such purposes. The 'Earth Exponential' platform, which is backed by JSW Foundation, will bring together funders and non-profits and showcase credible, high-impact and India-led climate solutions, as per an official statement. The statement said in the seven years to 2021, environment-related causes got Rs 6,183 crore of the overall funding of Rs 67,193 crore in CSR. The platform will be curating, evaluating and displaying home-grown climate projects, and enabling them to scale by matching them to funders, it said. It aims to reduce entry barriers for funders through simplified solution discovery and knowledge building, the statement said. "India's home-grown climate solutions offer immense potential to address climate change
The second of a three-part series on corporate social responsibility (CSR) looks at whether companies are meeting spending expectations
CSR activities were not treated as a business expenditure
HCL Foundation, a CSR arm of HCL Technologies Ltd, on Thursday said it spent Rs 216 crore during the 2021-22 fiscal on several initiatives across urban and rural development besides environmental action, up by 10.76 per cent from over the year. About Rs 195 crore was the CSR investment made during the 2020-21 financial year. "HCL Foundation and its partners worked tirelessly with communities to multiply our programme reach by over 12 times since 2016. Our projects are aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals... We remain committed to the long road ahead," said HCL Technologies CEO and Managing Director C Vijayakumar. Since 2016, the Foundation has spent Rs 900 crore on CSR programmes that span healthcare, sanitation, poverty eradication, education, skilling and livelihoods, environment and disaster risk reduction, the Foundation said in a statement. Speaking to PTI, HCL Foundation Vice President and Director Nidhi Pundhir said CSR programmes were implemented during the ...
New rules let companies omit details like title, location, and duration of the business's CSR project, budget allotted for it, the amount spent on it during the current fiscal year among others
CSR rules are applicable to companies with a net profit of over Rs 5 crore or networth of over Rs 500 crore or turnover of Rs 1,000 crore
Around 60 per cent of the total CSR funds spent by companies in the last seven financial years were in the areas of education, healthcare and rural development-related activities, according to the government. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, the corporate affairs ministry also informed that during the given period, around 33 per cent of the total CSR amount spent by companies were in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Under the Companies Act, 2013, a certain class of profitable companies are required to shell out at least two per cent of their three-year annual average net profit towards CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) activities in a particular fiscal. CSR is a board-driven process and the board of a company is empowered to plan, decide, execute and monitor CSR activities of the company based on the recommendation of its CSR Committee. Minister of State for Corporate Affairs Rao Inderjit Singh said in the written reply that the government doe
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Singh said it is a broad-based activity that the Board undertakes and we give general guidelines and the Board implements it
Overall CSR allocations appear to have taken a hit during the pandemic even as they became skewed towards certain sectors
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance expressed concerns over the monitoring mechanism in ensuring compliance with the provisions of CSR