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July 29, 2020

India gets its first Lokpal

PUBLIC DECISION More than five years after the enactment of the Lokpal Act 2013, the Government of India appointed eight members of its first anti-corruption ombudsman, the Lokpal, on March 22, 2019. The new Lokpal were administered the oath of office by President of India Ram Nath Kovind in New

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CSR has to evolve into ISR

INITIATIVE The Industrial Estate & SMEs Associations, Cluster Association could initiate ‘Swachh Approach’ to join hands and bring about cleanliness and better maintenance of the infrastructure. India is a country of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). The sector provides employment to over 110 million people. So it is imperative

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Mitigating Manual Scavenging

PUBLIC CAMPAIGN Bezwada Wilson is an activist and one of the founders and national convenors of the Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA), a human rights organization that has been campaigning for the eradication of manual scavenging, which has been illegal activity in India since 1993. His role at SKA has been

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NALCO dedicates Ultra-Modern Eye Care Centre

INITIATIVE Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan lauds NALCO as an efficient company. Bhubaneshwar: NALCO, in association with LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI), dedicated a state-of-the-art Secondary Plus Eye Care Hospital that will benefit more than 60,000 outpatients, perform 6,000 surgeries annually and offer free of cost

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Rekha Sharma, Chairperson, National Commission

INTERVIEW The major grievances of women are against the police, the judiciary, the administration, the media and finally the societal norms, said Rekha Sharma, Chairperson, National Commission for Women (NCW) in an interview with CSR Times. She went on to say how the NCW coordinates with concerned authorities to resolve

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“Catch them Young”

INITIATIVE The Malabar Group of Institutions which was started in the 1990s by Valsan Matathil is now a ray of hope for thousands of students from the underprivileged class living in Kerala. In the 1990, when Valsan Matathil was a post-graduate student of economics in a college in Kerala, the

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Building the Nation through Sustainable Development of Society

NATION BUILDING Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), a Government of India Enterprise under Department of Atomic Energy, has been playing a pioneering role in spurring the growth of electronics industry in India since 1967. Driven by the vision of self-reliance in strategic electronics and resting on the foundations of

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For a greener and sustainable future

INITIATIVE Green Ecofield is trying to bring technical innovations in the field of wastewater treatment and solve the problem of water shortage Green Ecofield India, a joint venture between Ecofield SRL Italy promoted by Armando Bedendo who is also the inventor and European patent holder for Hydronova and Green Gardens

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Working towards making pilgrimage a Swachh experience

MAKING A DIFFERENCE Cleanliness is next to godliness and Dr Karthik Narayanan, Managing Director of Sabari Consultants, understands it well. Because of his initiatives, Sabarimala devotees visiting the Lord Ayyappa temple are having a swachh experience. An annual happening, every year lakhs and lakhs of pilgrims start visiting Sabarimala from

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Awarding Good Corporate Citizens

Awarding Good Corporate Citizens Out of the target to construct 65 lakh individual household toilets by October 2019, 95 per cent, that is, 63 lakhs have already been built; and the target to construct 5 lakh community toilets has already been achieved, informed Minister Hardeep Singh Puri during the National

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Swachh Bharat Mission

TOWARDS A SWACCHH INDIA

The Swachh Bharat Mission which was launched on October 2, 2014, aims at making the country free from open defecation and achieving 100 per cent scientific management of municipal solid waste in 4,041 statutory towns in the country. Objectives of the mission Elimination of open defecation Eradication of manual scavenging

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NMDC Spreading Smiles

CSR PSU NMDC has been looking to add value to its CSR efforts by aiming for improvement in major thrust areas like education, healthcare and hygiene, creation of infrastructure, skill development and sustainable income generation and safe drinking water. NMDC is one of the leading iron ore mining companies in

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CSR in Navratna PSU Corporations

CSR PSUs Following amendments in the Schedule VII of the new Companies Act of 2013, with effect from April 1, 2014, every company, private or public limited, which either has a net worth of `500 crore or a turnover of `1,000 crore or net profit of `5 crore, needs to

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Swachhata Mission

CSR NEWS CSR Times in association with Clean Action and Assessment Group (CAAG) India was in the forefront in organizing the National Swachhata Summit 2019 at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi on February 19, 2019. In this national summit, Union Minister for Commerce and Civil Aviation Suresh Prabhu,

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