Dr. Bhaskar Chatterjee, popularly known in India as the ‘father of CSR’, addressed the United Nations’ (UN) 2016 Forum on Business and Human Rights this month, sharing insights into India’s unique law on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). India is the first country in the world to enshrine corporate giving into law.
The total prescribed expenditure for 2014-15, as per norms of the ministry of corporate affairs , was Rs 11,883 crore. Companies spent a total of Rs 8,803 crore on corporate social responsibility (CSR)-related activities in 2014-15, as per the data released by the ministry of corporate affairs.
Companies interested in conducting sports activities for school students as part of their corporate social responsibility (CSR), must now abide by a new policy, which the Maharashtra school education and sports department framed and introduced last month. A government resolution (GR) issued by the department states that a framework for streamlining such projects was necessary …
New CSR policy for firms conducting sports activities for school students Read More »
Cynical practice has always been the root weakness of CSR, which grew into a form of enlightened behaviour as a legitimate extension of the art of public relations. Ethical Corporation, a UK-based organization in the business of providing news and research on sustainability, headlined this theme for a marquee event in London next June: “The …
Government today made public CSR spending of more than 7,300 companies in 2014-15, totalling Rs 8,803 crore, but the amount spent by over 60 per cent of the entities was shown as zero. Among the 7,334 companies, Reliance Industries spent the highest amount of Rs 760.6 crore towards corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities in 2014-15.
