Category: Face To Face

Mamta Saikia, COO – Bharti Foundation  “Sanitation is one of our new programs, but Bharti mostly works in the field of education. 90% of our projects and resources are spent towards education program. We have our own 254 schools in the villages and these schools are completely free for the poor, unprivileged children. Not only fees, but even books, notebooks and stationeries are given to a kid to encourage them to attend school. We make sure that there is no barrier due to which a child, more specifically a girl…

S Mukherjee, ED (HR&CSR) – IOCL “Indian Oil as we are all aware, we call ourselves ‘Energy of India’. We are the largest commercial enterprise in India, largest marketing network, largest pipeline set-up and we are a Fortune 500 company. Having said this, the CSR spend last year was around 2.17 crores. Whether it is the government initiatives in ensuring smoke-less villages, the PM’s Ujala Yojana which is looked at world over as a fine example of what a corporate can do in terms of social upliftment. But we are…

Ajay Choudhary, DGM – Marketing ALIMCO “We are a public sector company under the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment and we are one of the leading implementing agencies for implementation of CSR activities for various private and public sector companies. We were incorporated in the year 1972 and are a Scheduled C Mini Ratna company, registered as a not for profit company. We have 6 factories – Kanpur, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Punjab, Jabalpur and a new one is coming up in Ujjain to cater to the pan India requirement. To…

HGS CSR Framework focuses on four areas – Education, Healthcare, Skill Development and Empowering Differently-abled A research study by Glassdoor reveals that about 69% employees decline jobs from employers with bad reputation while 84% are ready to leave the current organization for reputed employers. Developing into an employer of choice today not only requires an employer to have a great work environment, but also have a socially responsible, trustworthy and ethical corporate culture. Employees want to work for companies that care for them and value their willingness to participate in…

Since you are mostly concerned with securing elderly rights and liberty in the society, what kind of initiatives are you taking that concern their well being? Our goal at HelpAge India is to fight poverty isolation and neglect. From welfare, development to rights – these are the three areas we look at. If you consider a disadvantaged elderly, what does he need – he needs 2 meals a day, essential healthcare support, some disposable income, and if any government schemes are on, he should be part of it. So we…

HelpAge India is a leading registered national level NGO. A secular Non- profit organisation set up in 1978, it has for almost 40 odd years have been working for the cause and care of disadvantaged older people, so as to improve their quality of life, make significant changes in their lives, so as to enable them to live better and healthier lives. SPO India talks to both Madhu Madan, Country Head – Resource Mobilization – HelpAge India and Manjira Khurana, Country Head, Advocacy & Communications – HelpAge India individually to…

World bank report says mobile money and electronic transfers coul bring financial services to 2.5 billion marginalized people . The government of India seeks to promote digital payment methods to encourage consumers and merchants to increasingly shift to these payment modes. To take this initiative forward, Lucky Grahak Yojana for Consumers and Digi-Dhan Vyapar Yojana for Merchants have been launched on December 25 at Vigyan Bhavan. The schemes are aimed at encouraging people to move towards significantly higher usage of digital transactions through the offer of incentives. Winners will be…

In today’s time and age, it is crucial to stay connected across platforms. Collaboration is indeed a top priority for many business leaders. With the content collaboration space growing exponentially, Prysm tries to redefine this space with innovative collaboration techniques. Kumar G.B, Vice President – Asia Pacific, Prysm throws more light on this – The content collaboration segment has made a significant shift from the days of vanilla video conferencing solutions. The next wave of growth in the enterprise collaboration and employee productivity space will come from the innovation of…

In a chat with SPO India, Saran Chatterjee , CEO, Housejoy shares more about the home services space in the country and why it is no more a niche area, besides giving out details about the functioning of the company and its expansion plans – Housejoy is the leading provider in the home services space. They are pioneers in providing high-quality on demand residential services, supported by a team of dynamic, capable and trusted professionals. The company was launched in January 2015 to provide an aggregation of services to customers…

While the Social Services sector in the country is in dire need of attention and consideration for its upliftment from the corporate sector and the government, Ritu Chhabria, Director – Finolex Industries and Founder/ Managing Trustee – Mukul Madhav Foundation feels that the implementation process and getting permissions from local bodies slows down the pace of many social projects in India. Throwing light on this, she tells SPOI of how MMF along with Finolex Industries is trying to work for societal good – Could you trace the journey of Mukul…