Arundhati Bhattacharya details work ranging from Swachh Bharat to education. The State Bank of India annually contributes around 1 per cent of its profits to socially relevant and corporate social responsibility projects. SBI Chairman Arundhati Bhattacharya shares with BusinessLine details of the projects and strategies the bank adopts. Edited excerpts:
GTBank has always been heavy on CSR. The bank maintains a clearly defined Corporate Social Responsibility strategy with targeted focus on Education, Community Development, the Environment and Arts. The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility developed alongside the emergence of corporations more than a century ago and is now practiced by most companies and institutions around …
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Corporate social responsibility is an action of organisations that will, as it were, seem to draw mixed reaction from individuals, its acceptance and rejection from people depending on what side of the divide one is. While on one side, an argument can be propounded based on the solvency and financial outlook of the organisation …
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