Bangalore : Tesco Bengaluru recently celebrated ‘CSR Month’ – a series of initiatives directed at increasing colleague volunteering and community welfare. The company conceptualized the campaign to bring about meaningful change to society and reaffirm colleagues’ commitment to communities. Tesco Bengaluru aims to be one of the leading corporates in the city who have successfully brought colleague volunteering to the forefront through the sheer scale and impact of the initiative executed. The row of activities were driven over and above the mandated 2% CSR spend. [gt_row container_fluid=”1″ id=”gt-columns-669″ css=””] [gt_column size=”6″] [gt_heading id=”gt-heading-444″ tag=”h2″ type=”simple” text_align=”left” icon=”” separator_color=”” font_size=”” font_color=””…
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While on long drives we generate lot of trash in the form of discarded wrappers, toll tickets, wet wipes and other waste in the car. Majority of us toss it out of the window. Only few environment- conscious citizens don’t dirty our roadsides. But they do not have a proper place inside their vehicle where they can collect trash. So, a company founded by Nupur & Capt. Anshul Rajvanshi came up with a small solution to this big problem. They call it a CAR BIN. Carbin is a necessity for all vehicles whether it is a car, a cab, a…
As shown in a recently held National seminar for toilets, 70 crores of Indian citizens defecate in open air!!!If we consider that a family of 4 needs a toilet, providing at least 01 % of that volume into reality, we should target making 1.750 crores toilets! By conventional means, using brick mortar technique, with manual masonry can we really achieve even that 01% of public being provided toilets? So, instead of focusing on methodology and man power which would not make us go anywhere close to our target, we considered – Teaching the villages the know how. Supply the materials.…
Nexus Technoware Solution Pvt. Ltd. (NTSPL), the leading IT Company in Bhubaneswar has gone a step ahead beyond business by organizing a Drawing Competition along with Dinner Program at city based orphanage “ASHRAYA” on 16th Nov 2015. NTSPL team has reached “ASHRAYA” a special home for the orphan, tribal and underprivileged children near Khandagiri, Bhubaneswar to spend some moments with the kids. They have tried to spill some smiles on those unprivileged children by interacting and doing some fun activities. Then they organised drawing competition among the kids.
Vanshika, Noorjahan, Jyoti, Noorie and Deepika : our 5 first Tara Girls are officially transferred by the Child Welfare Committee. The girls put on a big show for the opening of their home and it’s more than 150 guests who gathered in front of the gates of Tara Girls in the evening of Monday, October 26th. Mrs. Preeti Sudan, representing Mrs. Maneka Gandhi, the Indian Minister for Women and Children officially cut the ribbon, opening the doors of Tara Girls. A celebration with great fanfare : 150 guests – most of whom arrived early – panic in the ship as…
With farmer suicides already crossing the 600 mark, the Marathwada region of Maharashtra is reeling under the worst drought of recent years which is becoming a graveyard for the starving farmers and their families due to massive crop failure. As much as 84% of Maharashtra’s agriculture is rain-fed which includes Marathwada-the region which faces the worst ever drought in past half a century.The region normally receives around 780 millimetres of rainfall during monsoons. The number has dwindled to 259 this season. With incessant shortfall of rain in Maharashtra, water storage in the State’s dam has hit a three year low.Facing…
The ancient Vedic literature written around 600 B.C. mentions about four Vedas Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samveda, and Atharvaveda which are considered as the root of Dharma. Social responsibility is a manifestation of dharma, the duty of human beings towards society. Atharva Veda says that one should procure wealth with one hundred hands and distribute it with one thousand hands. The Yajurveda says that enjoy riches with detachment, do not cling to them because the riches belong to the public, they are not yours alone. In the Rig Veda, there is also a mention of the need for the wealthy to plant…
What are the stages of responsible sustainability consciousness? It was another routine working day when I received an email from the Asian Institute of Management to participate in their 14th Annual Asian Forum on CSR in Bangkok on the 8th and 9th of September 2015. The topic of this international conference was “Unleashing Social Entrepreneurship – New Partnerships for a Better World”. This topic is particularly relevant to today’s world, as civil society is facing the heat of change, while on the other side the corporate world is also in need of transformation in their thought processes as well as…