Industrialisation And Economic Development
Corporate Social Responsibility and Industrialisation
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a concept whereby organizations voluntarily take steps to improve the quality of life of employees and their families as well as of the local community and the society at large .An essential component of CSR is to see to the welfare of the community .The corporate giants endeavor to make a positive contribution to the underprivileged communities, by supporting a wide range of socio-economic, educational and health initiatives .CSR can be defined as , the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families as well as of the local community and society at large. CSR at its simplest is treating its stakeholders in a socially responsible way.This means the activities of the corporates should not in anyway have a deterring effect on life and environment,since live and let live is the motto every human should believe in.However if we assess the present day situation, in most of the urbanised areas pollution is an ever increasing menace to mankind.Polluion is the direct result of industrialisaion and urbanisation.Health hazards are related to pollution. Thus close monitoring of each and every activity of the corporates is essential,so that industrialisation does not further endanger life and environment.The importance of corporate social responsibility cannot be over emphasized.Pracical application of csr is still a farcry in most of the countries, since the monitoring authoities are callous and careless.Punitive measures are to be such for polluting that corporates would be exremely careful in implementing their plans.TSRDS of Tata Steel has done a commendable task so far in their csr policiy implementation.
About the Author
Saheli Chakra borty is working as a Faculty (Economics) at IUJNC , Jamshedpur since December 2009.She is SET qualified and is an alumnus of Presidency college ,Kolkata from where she graduated with Economics Hon ours(B.Sc Eco).She post graduated with a 1st class in Economics from Kolkata University,(M.Sc Eco) and has completed B-ed ,with a 1st class from Kolkata University. She enrolled for M Phil in Jadavpur University and continued for 1 year. She has registered herself for PhD in Economics (which is near completion) from Ranchi University.Saheli is an ex-student of Loreto Convent Asansol.
She has a plethora of experience of fourteen years and more of teaching, examining and supervising in schools and colleges. She started her career as a professor of Economics and English in Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture in Golpark, Kolkata.She has also been a lecturer of Economics in South City College (Heramba Chandra) and Eklavya College, JSR.Saheli has the added experience of teaching Economics in eleven and twelve in Little Flower School, Tag ore Academy, and M.N.P.S. She has been a visiting faculty (Economics and Quantitative Methods) in IUJNC; Jamshedpur from August 2008 to November 2009.She has been a I.SC Supervisor and ISC Examiner.
Saheli has attended seminars and workshops connected to Economics at Management Skill Centre, Kolkata, on Lions Quest Skills at Jamshedpur.She has recently presented a paper on CSR and Chemical Industries at Chemcon, organized by All India Institute of Chemical Industries at Vizag from 27th to the 30th of Dec 2009.Her abstracts have been published in scholarsden.org.and her articles have been published in Articlebase.com.One of her papers is about to be published in Kurukshetra..
She aspires to write many more papers in future and has already received an invitation from Kurukshetra and three international journals to write articles .Her interests range from Economics to English, Mathematics and Psychology.
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