Vedika Jain sees the rural sector showing a shift in focus with increased urbanisation and modernisation. Rural development focuses on developing infrastructure such as irrigation facilities and electricity for increased employment and economic opportunities, education, public health and sanitation, easing credit availability, women empowerment, etc. Mahindra’s Integrated Watershed Management Project helps conserve over 10 million liters of water per year A rural area can be defined as a place, as per the latest census, which meets the following criteria: A population of less than 5,000 people; Density of population less than 400 per sq km; and, more than ‘25 per…
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Laying out the vast expanse of the healthcare sector, Nandini Rao points out the significant role India has been playing in the domain with both public and private players delivering through CSRs. An important fallout is an overwhelming percentage of healthcare systems are now rebooting their digital tools and upgrading their infrastructure. Zydus Hospital, Dahod – a CSR project initiated by Zydus Lifesciences Ltd The healthcare sector in India is increasingly becoming focused on innovation and technology. India is a frontrunner when it comes to healthcare management. More than 80 per cent of healthcare systems are aiming to increase their…
Ritika Seth laments that despite the constitutional safeguards, laws and policies in place, there is little evidence on ground of women being treated as equals in the society. She makes out a case for holistic approach towards women empowerment across spheres and observes that CSR funding is bridging the gap between law and policy and their implementation. Hindustan Unilever Ltd.`s ‘Project Shakti’ has nearly 1,36,000 Shakti entrepreneurs aka ‘Shakti Ammas’ across 18 Indian states The Indian Constitution provides equal rights to all citizens of India including men, women and children. The Constitution not only guarantees equality to women but also…
Focusing on the higher trajectory of Education sector in the country, Anushka Singh asserts that CSR initiatives are providing much needed fillip despite the multiplying population. With great business and investment potential, she says the education market in India is expected to amount to US$ 225 billion. The FDI equity inflows from April 2000 till March 2022 stood at 7.72 billion. Ultratech Cement Limited, part of the Aditya Birla Group has been providing CSR funding in the education sector CSR initiatives in India are vitalising the education sphere in India, starting from pre-primary to higher education. India has the largest…
Sakshi Agarwal specifies that philanthropy is not the only concept behind CSR. It has now been brought in the ambit of the Companies Act of 2013 to give it a legal connotation as well. It is now mandated as a way of conducting business by a company as a result of which there is visible and substantive contribution towards social good and uplift and wherein the idea is also to share the burden of the state in serving public at large. The objective of CSR is to share the burden of the State in serving the public at large Following…
Shoma A. Chatterji feels that the “Angry young man” label identified with thespian Amitabh Bachchan has not been very fair as he essayed many roles that were in complete contrast to that image. In this profile, she lists some of his films where the actor was a revelation and struck the same emotional chord with the audience. I have always felt that identifying the screen persona of Amitabh Bachchan with the label of the “angry young man” is unfair because even in his heyday when the angry young man was an image he seemed to have blended into, he was…
Winning a lottery jackpot is the stuff of wild dreams. Then, how can a lottery winner wish he had not won? Lina Mathias muses over some aspects that come to mind on the plight of a lotter winner. There must be few other earth-shakingly thrilling moments in life than being told that you have won a massive lottery jackpot. In fact, the first-person accounts of many lottery winners detail a similar sequence: wild joy followed by doubt about the authenticity of the news given to them. The winner of the Onam lottery festival in Kerala this September is a 32-year…
The Himalayas are geologically young and fragile formations, prone to disturbances and landslides. Most of this region is highly seismic and hence calls for policies that are protective towards the environment, particularly forests and rivers, asserts Bharat Dogra. The Himalayas The Himalayas stretch majestically for nearly 2500 km across 13 Indian states and union territories. Nearly 50 million people live here, but the number of people whose life is closely influenced by the Himalayas is many times more, with a heavy concentration in the densely populated Gangetic plains. For all their outward grandeur, the Himalayas are geologically young and fragile…
He brought humour to the mundane Satya Prakash Srivastav, alias Raju Srivastav was a popular TV host, comedian, film actor and politician. Raju took stand-up comedy door to door. He specialised in finding humour in everyday situations. At one point India’s highest-paid observational comedian, he even performed abroad. It was always a laugh riot around him. He had artistic traits rooted in him and despised vulgarity urging comedians to practice self-regulation. As youngster, he loved to mimic film stars, especially Amitabh Bachchan. He donned the same hairstyle and put up his posters in his room. At school, he mimicked his teachers and at home…
Hero of Pimple II triumph Anuj Nayyar was born on 28 August 1975 and grew up in Delhi. His father, Satish Kumar Nayyar, worked as a visiting professor in Delhi School of Economics while his mother, Meena Nayyar, worked for the South Campus library of Delhi University. He was a bright student who performed well in academics and sports. Nayyar received his high-school education in Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi. He graduated from the National Defence Academy and was commissioned into 17 Jat Regiment in June 1997. In May 1999, a tip-off by a local shepherd to Captain…