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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is about how businesses align their values and behaviour
with the expectations and needs of stakeholders - not just customers and investors, but also
employees, suppliers, communities, regulators, special interest groups and society as a whole.
CSR describes a company's commitment to be accountable to its stakeholders.
CSR demands that businesses manage the economic, social and environmental impacts of
their operations to maximise the benefits and minimise the downsides.
CSR is not only about fulfilling a duty to society; it should also bring competitive advantage.
Through an effective CSR programme, companies can:
Promoting the uptake of CSR amongst SMEs requires approaches that fit the respective needs
and capacities of these businesses, and do not adversely affect their economic
viability. UNIDO based its CSR programme on the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) Approach,
which has proven to be a successful tool for SMEs in the developing countries to assist them in
meeting social and environmental standards without compromising their competitiveness. The
TBL approach is used as a framework for measuring and reporting corporate performance
against economic, social and environmental performance. It is an attempt to align private
enterprises to the goal of sustainable global development by providing them with a more
comprehensive set of working objectives than just profit alone. The perspective taken is that
for an organization to be sustainable, it must be financially secure, minimize (or ideally
eliminate) its negative environmental impacts and act in conformity with societal expectations.
"We define corporate social responsibility strategically. Corporate social responsibility encompasses
not only what companies do with their profits, but also how they make them. It goes beyond
philanthropy and compliance and addresses how companies manage their economic, social, and
environmental impacts, as well as their relationships in all key spheres of influence: the workplace,
the marketplace, the supply chain, the community, and the public policy realm."
Definition of CSR from Harvard's CSR Initiative, JFK School of Government
The term "corporate social responsibility" is often used interchangeably with corporate
responsibility, corporate citizenship, social enterprise, sustainability, sustainable development,
triple-bottom line, corporate ethics, and in some cases corporate governance. Though these terms
are different, they all point in the same direction: throughout the industrialized world and in many
developing countries there has been a sharp escalation in the social roles corporations are expected
to play. Companies are facing new demands to engage in public-private partnerships and are under
growing pressure to be accountable not only to shareholders, but also to stakeholders such as
employees, consumers, suppliers, local communities, policymakers, and society-at-large.
5) http://www.financialexpress.com/news/guj-cm-
announces-rs-15-000-cr-project-for-tribal-
upliftment/192958/
Guj CM announces Rs 15,000 cr project for tribal
upliftment
Ahmedabad, Feb 27 : The ruling BJP government in Gujarat seems to have started
gearing up for the assembly elections this year.
After proposing a tax relief of Rs 400 crore in the annual state budget 2007-08, Gujarat
chief minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced Rs 15,000 crore ‘Vanbandhu
Kalyan Yojna’ for the upliftment and development of the tribal population in Gujarat.
Rs 15,000 crore package for tribals, which accounts for 15% of the population of
Gujarat, Modi said that it would herald a new trend in the country as the Gujarat
government is setting an agenda of tribal development in the state.
Modi announced the scheme under Rule 44 of Assembly Rules and said that this
scheme has a 10 point programme and it will span over the next five years covering 43
talukas from Umargam in South Gujarat to Ambaji in North Gujarat.
The tribal population of more than 75 lakh people will benefit from ‘Vanbandhu Kalyan
Yojna’. “The total provision under this tribal development scheme is higher than the
amount spent for tribal development in Gujarat within the last 32 years”, Modi said.
He said, “We wont be able to achieve the desired results if we go only by the obligations
mandated in the constitution of India.” He also expressed his commitment towards making
the tribals active partners of their development process.
The government also wants to encompass other areas concerning the tribal
development like houses to tribal families, infrastructure for their healthy life, pure
drinking water through pipeline, modern farming facilities in tribal areas and basic
infrastructure facilities like road, bus stand and energy network.
Under various provision of the programme, education will be given to 1,000 selected
students in best residential schools, to set up 100 more hostels, yearly health check ups
of tribal families, all season roads and broadband connection to all tribal dominated
talukas.
6) http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/socioeconomic-problems-still-plague-tribal-
gujarat/421495
Ahmedabad The Narendra Modi government has acknowledged the persistence of poverty among the tribal
population in the state and has admitted that various socio-economic problems still haunt tribal Gujarat to a
large extent.
These findings have been mentioned in a dossier recently published by the Tribal Development Department
on completion of 500 days of the Chief Minister’s Ten point Programme – ‘Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana’.
The flagship programme seeks to enable the tribal regions to merge with mainstream development by
bridging the gaps between the Integrated Tribal Development Project (ITDP) blocks and other parts of
Gujarat, by allocating Rs 15,000 crore over a period of five years.
The dossier mentions that literacy among tribal families is 20 per cent less than the state average, though
the government claims that the ‘Kanya Kelavani Yatra Programme’ launched in low literacy ITDP areas is
expected to improve the situation in the coming years.
Also representation of tribal families in the state’s BPL list is 2.5 times more than other categories. The
backwardness of the tribal areas can be gauged from the fact that the Cowlagi Committee’s list of most
backward talukas in the state predominate the ITDP talukas.
A recent survey by the Taleem Research Foundation also showed that lack of awareness is a major
bottleneck in improving the outreach of government schemes in the state.
Moving to the food intake issues, the government has admitted that food insecurity and malnutrition is a
common phenomenon in the tribal areas. The income levels are so low that starch-based food is their main
intake, which leads to poor nutrition.
The dossier adds that low access to credit by the population even after a plethora of programmes, has given
mixed results so far.
As the single source of livelihood, traditional farm incomes are not enough to meet even subsistence needs.
As such, poor tribal families in Gujarat are forced to combine traditional cultivation with the collection of
minor forest produce, maintaining small livestock and migration to urban areas for wage labour during the
lean season.
Recent studies indicate that nearly 30 per cent of Gujarat’s tribal population temporarily migrates every year.
The official dossier also enlists the observations by the World Bank regarding the four ways in which public
services are failing the poor tribal households in Gujarat: There is very little expenditure on the poor as
regards health and education; the development funds do not always reach the frontline provider; incentives
for effective service delivery are weak; and the poor are unable to generate adequate demand for various
services.
‘Irrigation’
* Promoting low-risk and high productivity crops in the ITDP talukas through organic farming, biotechnology
and diversified agriculture, for example, the Wadi programme and Project Sunshine involving 30,000
farmers in Dahod and Panchmahals districts
* Deepening of village ponds, Lift Irrigation schemes and construction of check dams (nearly 3,016 up till
now) to support irrigation in ITDP areas
7) http://www.indianexpress.com/news/rs-15-000-cr-for-gujarat-tribal-
development/24496/
GANDHINAGAR, FEb 28:
In a step apparently aimed at countering Congress’ thrust in the tribal region of the State,
Chief Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a grand Rs 15,000 crore plan for tribal development,
in the State Assembly on Tuesday.
To be spent over the next five years, the ambitious ‘10-point Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana’
translates into Rs 3,000 crore per annum, which is close to 20 per cent of each year’s annual
plan size of the Government. Modi said the entire package would be implemented in a
mission mode beginning this year.
In a clear sign that not all sections of the Government were not taken into confidence over
the ambitious project, Tribal Development Minister Mangubhai Patel, when questioned from
where the money would come for the scheme, expressed his inability to answer. “It is a CM’s
scheme and he would know the answer,” said the Minister.