Civil Society,Company Social Responsibilty

With TVS everybody rides pillion

Civil Society News
Bangalore

Murugesamma used to work on the fields in the Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu as an agricultural worker. She earned a daily wage and could at best hope for seasonal employment. But in the past three years her life has changed dramatically. As part of a self-help group (SHG), Murugesamma makes Rs 1,200 from just five hours of rolling out chapattis every alternative day. She has a house on land allotted to her under the Indira Awas Yojna. Her family has its own toilet. The children go to school. Her husband still works as a daily wage earner, but for Murugesamma the uncertainties of being a labourer on someone else's fields are something of the past. Her SHG of 15 women, the Gokularlakshmi Magalir Sangam, has squirreled away enough money to lease one and a half acres to grow bananas.

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SAIL, Neyveli are CSR stars

Civil Society News
New Delhi

THE Steel Authority of India (SAIL) and the Neyveli Lignite Corporation were surprise winners of the 2006 Business World-FICCI-SEDF awards for corporate social responsibility. The awards were presented by the President of India at the FICCI auditorium on May 7. This is Indian’s first CSR award and was instituted in 1999. In this season of liberalisation, it is uncommon for public sector units to receive such recognition in competition against the private sector. But SAIL and Neyveli scored better than some 33 other companies that applied to be considered and seven that were shortlisted. In an inexplicable twist to the event,

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