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 Delhi. Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose […]
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 recognized by theAshoka Foundation which […]
NALCO dedicates Ultra-Modern Eye Care Centre
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 treatment to poor patients at Angul. […]
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 problems faced by women. CSR […]
“Catch them Young”
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 college was on the verge of […]
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 strong R&D, ECIL has proved […]
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 India, promoted by Dr. Amrutraj […]
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 Swachhata Summit 2019 organized recently […]
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 Modern and scientific municipal solid […]
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 India since it started the […]