-Stanford Social Innovation Review Looked at from the perspective of the political right, and the left, and the center, the proposed law making CSR mandatory is a really bad idea. Companies all over the world are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that they are responsible citizens, with about 70 percent of large companies in Europe and the Americas reporting on their corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. Despite this, the very concept...
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'Smart' cards: Jagjit Singh labourer in MP
-The Times of India BHOPAL: If you go by some of the photographs on smart cards used for making payments under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Rewa district, Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh, Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray, the late ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh and other well-known people are all labourers, though with different names. Many such cards, carrying pictures of celebrities but having names of locals, have...
More »UN team sees no protection for whistleblowers in India -Vikas Dhoot
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: Whistleblowers, victims, experts and witnesses testifying against or reporting private sector corruption have no cover under Indian laws, a United Nations' report on the country's compliance with the UN Convention Against Corruption has found. India had ratified the pact in May 2011. UN's Office on Drugs and Crime reviewed India's compliance with the aspects of the UNCAC that deal with curbing corruption in the private sector....
More »Age of graft -CP Chandrasekhar
-Frontline Corruption tends to be greater in periods when there is a state-engineered redistribution of wealth in favour of a few at the explicit or implicit expense of the many. Liberalisation is one such period. IT cannot be verified and may not be true. But, the view that the record of graft and corruption during the two-term, nine-year rule of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is the worst in India's post-Independence...
More »Another child dies; malnutrition death toll goes up to 35
-The Hindu ‘No steps taken to prevent such deaths in Attappady Hills' Palakkad: One more infant died at Kottathara Tribal Speciality Hospital on Thursday, taking the number of deaths owing to malnutrition in the last 16 months in the Attappady Hills in Palakkad district of Kerala to 35. The infant, weighing only 1,300 grams, was delivered during the eighth month of pregnancy. The mother was admitted in the hospital three days back...
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