CSR DEPARTMENT

A noteworthy fact in the CSR spends of the past 5 years is the growing emphasis on healthcare, WASH and environment sustainability (JICA Report). This bodes well for achieving India’s net zero goals by 2070.

Since the launch of the "zero fatality corridor" initiative for the Mumbai-Pune Expressway (MPEW) in 2016, there has been a marked decline in road crash deaths, stated the report on the project, a joint effort of the Maharashtra State Road Developme...

Assam Initiates Corporate Social Responsibility Authority & Paddy Procurement Reforms. Cabinet approves CSR Authority for efficient fund utilization. Guwahati to issue municipal bonds; Rs 100 crore for Assam Tea Corp. Reforms in land settlement, pro...

The department is in the process of sending tax demand notices to these entities to recover the dues, people aware of the details told ET. The amount could increase once interest and penalties are levied, they said. "We are sending demand notices al...

The World Bank and the finance ministry of India have agreed to collaborate in creating a market structure for maximising social impact through corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. World Bank President Ajay Banga and Finance Minister N...

The Supreme Court on Monday asked Attorney General R Venkataramani and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to look into the issue of the suspension of Jammu and Kashmir education department lecturer who had argued before the top court in a matter related...

Any activity with a longer-term perspective takes time to show desired results. However, the CSR mechanism requires companies to report on the allocation and a detailed impact assessment.

The donation is the largest made under corporate social responsibility (CSR) by any Indian firm towards cancer care. TMC will become the referral centres for southern and northern India, providing therapy to almost 25,000 new patients annually equip...

ICICI will donate the money from its CSR funds to set up three new buildings spanning over a combined area of 7.5 lakh square feet and equip them with high end radiology machines, at TMC’s centres in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, Mullanpur in Punjab and...

Tuensang is the largest district of Nagaland and has a 100 bedded District hospital in the area which caters to the patients coming from the remotest corner of the district and also from the nearby districts.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is slated to attend an event organised here by the ex-servicemen welfare department on Tuesday, officials said. He will be the chief guest at fourth edition of the Armed Forces Flag Day Corporate Social Responsibility ...

According to a series of orders issued by the new AIIMS Director Dr M Srinivas on Monday, the administration has also decided to deploy 50 more additional battery-powered buses, besides the existing fleet, via CSR contributions for transporting pati...

Speaking on the concluding day of Chintan Shivir held at Kaziranga, Sarma said that the Assam government is committed to work as a facilitator to assist all stakeholders to unleash their energies for the development of the state in a time bound mann...

Rio stated that India is the first country in the world to make Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) mandatory. The policy enables businesses to invest their profits in development activities which is a win-win for everyone, as it allows corporates...

"On studying it with the same group of people (the think tank), we found that almost 70 per cent relate to labour laws and as far as Parliament is concerned, they have enacted four Labour Codes. And they have really simplified those laws," Departmen...

​​The assembly panel in its report for the Industries Department for 2021-22 suggested that PSUs and private firms with production units outside Assam should spend at least five per cent of their total corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds in ...

"Whenever any violation of CSR provisions is reported, action against such non-compliant companies are initiated as per provisions of the Act after due examination of records and following due process of law. All CSR related defaults are compoundabl...

When it comes to ESG strategies, disclosures and performance, around 98 per cent of the 163 domestic companies surveyed regularly publish sustainability reports and 41 per cent of them do that in accordance with the global reporting initiative stand...

The government recently allowed companies to categorise certain Covid related expenditure as CSR. These include creating health infrastructure for Covid care, manufacturing or supplying of O2 concentrators, ventilators, cylinders or any other medica...