corporate social responsibility (csr) conclave
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) conclave
on
“Social Responsibility of Corporates for the Development of Women & Children”
in
Vatsalya Mela 2012
Date: 17th November 2012
Time:- 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Venue: - Amphitheatre, Vatsalya Mela, Dilli Haat, New Delhi
In Collaboration with
by
Social Empowerment & Education
National Resource Centre for Women
National Mission for Empowerment of Women
Ministry of Women and Child Development Government of India
2012
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Acknowledgements
Conclave Organizing Team
NMEW
Smt. K.Ratna Prabha, Additional Secretary & Mission Director
Smt. Rashmi Singh, Executive Director
Prof. K.R.Chandrasekaran, Senior Project Advisor
Dr.Payal Sahu, Senior Research Officer & Conclave Nodal Officer
Dr.Sulochna Vasudevan, Senior Project Advisor
Dr.Arvind Rana, Research Assistant
Smt. Nisha Jha, Research Assistant
PHD Chamber
Mr. Jatinder Singh, Secretary and
Ms. Revati S.Cherian, Senior Assistant Secretary
Report Writing for Newsletter (NMEW)
Dr.Sunita Sangar, Senior Research Officer and
Media & Communication domain
Report Writing (NMEW)
Prof. K.R.Chandrasekaran, Senior Project Advisor
Dr.Payal Sahu, Senior Research Officer & Conclave Nodal Officer
Dr.Arvind Rana, Research Assistant
Smt. Nisha Jha, Research Assistant
Smt. Deepika Kardam, Stenographer
Report Editing, Compiling & Designing
Dr.Payal Sahu, Senior Research Officer & Conclave Nodal Officer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Background 4
About Vatsalya Mela 6
About the Conclave 6
Objectives of the Conclave 6
Introduction by Smt. Rashmi Singh 7
Welcome Address by Smt. K.Ratna Prabha 8
Opening Address by Hon’ble MWCD Smt. Krishna Tirath 10
CSR initiatives through PHD Chamber of Commerce 12
Empowering Women through employment in IT Industries,TIE 13
Experience and Learning in Women Empowerment, GMRVF 14
CSR initiatives for Women Empowerment, TCS 16
CSR initiatives in Sanitation Sector, Sulabh International 16
Empowering Women through Entrepreneurship, FICCI/FLO 17
National Movement for Mainstreaming CSR for Sustained Inclusiveness, CII
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CSR initiative towards Women Empowerment, HCL Foundation 19
Summing-up 20
Annexure A: Programme Schedule
Annexure B: Brief Profile of Speakers
Annexure C: List of Participants
Annexure D: Photographs
Annexure E: Abbreviations
Annexure F: Recommendations
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BACKGROUND OF CSR
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
Women play a pivotal role in the overall progress of a country as they constitute about
48.26% of the total population in India as per census 2011 and are not only a valuable
human resource for the country but their development in the socio-economic area would
determine the growth of the economy. The Indian Constitution also talks of gender
equality in its Preamble, Fundamental Rights, Fundamental Duties and Directive
Principles of State Policy.
Being Socially Responsible means that people and organisations must behave ethically
and with sensitivity toward social, cultural, economic and environmental issues. Striving
for social responsibility helps individuals, organisations and governments to have a
positive impact on development, business and society with a positive contribution to
bottom-line results.
Traditionally, Corporate Social Responsibility meant a company made a profit, paid
taxes and then donated money to charity. The mantra of industry was that maximizing
profits was a company's primary mission; social responsibility was someone else's
concern. It costs a lot of money to install anti-pollution devices, disposal of hazardous
wastes, revamp manufacturing processes, rework food recipes, and the list goes on and
on. Companies would not -- and could not -- provide healthier foods or manufacture
fuel-efficient cars if the products did not sell. On the other hand, companies are
discovering that proactive Corporate Social Responsibility programs yield cost
efficiencies and positive consumer feedback. Exactly what corporate social
responsibility - CSR - is and its scope is being defined by companies throughout the
world today.
About CSR & Sustainability
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been defined in various ways by scholars,
authors and institutions, but one of the more ideal definitions has been provided by the
World Business Council for Sustainable Development, which says "Corporate Social
Responsibility is 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 is not only about doing Philanthropic activities but is now growing to become an
integral part of the Strategy of the company.
In the past few years, India has been registering the 2nd highest growth levels year-on-
year globally. To make this growth sustainable, India needs an inclusive growth
strategy, considering the large social inequality/divide/exclusion existing in the country.
With corporate being the drivers of growth of our country, they realize that they need to
play a substantial part in this inclusive growth. Government of India has already made it
mandatory for Public Sector Units to spend certain % of profit on CSR.
Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) issued guidelines on Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR) for Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) in April, 2010 and
these Guidelines are applicable only to the Central PSEs. As per these Guidelines, the
CPSEs may undertake projects or activities in the periphery where company carries out
its commercial activities, as far as possible. Where this is not possible or applicable, the
company may choose to locate CSR projects anywhere in the country. The CSR budget
has to be mandatorily allocated through a Board Resolution as a percentage of Net
Profit (previous year) in the following manner:
Type of CPSEs
Net Profit (Previous Year)
Expenditure range for CSR
in a Financial Year
(% of profit)
(i) Less than Rs. 100 crore 3% – 5%
(ii) Rs. 100 crore to Rs. 500 crore 2% – 3%
(Subject to a Minimum of Rs. 3 crore)
(iii) Rs. 500 crore and above 0.5% – 2%
The CSR Budget is to be fixed for each financial year and this fund does not lapse. The
un-utilised funds in a particular year have to be transferred to a CSR Fund, which will
accumulate.
(Source: Press Information Bureau, Government of India, Ministry of Heavy Industries &
Public Enterprises)
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About Vatsalya Mela
The Vatsalya Mela (festival of a mother’s love) is organised by the Government of India
every year. This year the Vatsalya Mela is being organised by the Ministry of Women
and Child Development (MWCD) on 14 -19 November 2012 in Dilli Haat, New Delhi.
The Mela provides a rich opportunity to acquire an overall glimpse of the schemes,
policies, programmes, initiatives, projects and activities of both government as well as
non-government organisations. The Mela would be a blend of ideas, Information,
Education and Communication (IEC) activities, cultural programmes, interaction,
thematic exhibitions, display of services and products of States, NGOs and partners.
Invitation to Dilli Haat is made free by the Government to encourage the public to visit
the Vatsalya Mela.
About the Conclave
The conclave is for participants and practitioners who are working in social
development, welfare and gender issues with special focus on women empowerment.
There are many companies in India doing CSR in various fields of social development.
The opportunity is given to participants to showcase their efforts, initiatives in the form
of Best Practices to the larger audience and stakeholders and to forge partnerships for
the cause.
Objectives of the Conclave
1) To sensitize the Corporate Foundations, NGOs, and PSUs about the flagship
programmes of GOI focussing on Women & Children and the role of National
Mission for Empowerment of Women.
2) To share the best practices initiated by Corporate Foundations, NGOs, and
PSUs promoting the holistic development of Women & Children.
3) To develop a way forward for forging convergence with relevant stakeholders for
empowerment of women.
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INTRODUCTION
The conclave was chaired & inaugurated by Smt. Krishna Tirath, Hon’ble Minister for
Women and Child Development, participated by eight speakers from leading
corporate ( PHD Chamber, TIE, GMR Foundation, FICCI/FLO, CII, TCS, HCL,
Sulabh International) and around hundred delegates.
Smt. Rashmi Singh, Executive Director, NMEW gave a brief account of functions of
NMEW, objectives of organizing the conclave and also the outcome expected. She
informed that the best practices shared in the conclave by the corporate luminaries will
motivate many other organisations to initiate their activities for the promotion of
empowerment of women in the country.
All the speakers were invited on the stage. The Hon’ble Minister and distinguish
speakers on the dais were welcomed by presenting bouquets by NMEW team members
-Dr. Sulochna Vasudevan, Dr. Payal Sahu, Ms Barnali Das, Ms Shobhashree, Ms
Meenakshi Rathore, Dr. Vasudha Shukla, Ms Nisha Jha and Mr Devashish
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During the conclave the Minister of Women & Child Development released NMEW
Vatsalya Mela daily newsletter which was followed by the prize distribution to the
winners of the Slogan writing competition.
Smt. K. Ratna Prabha, Additional Secretory & Mission Director (AS & MD) welcomed
Smt. Krishna Tirath ji, Minister of Women and Child Development, Government of India,
speakers Sh. Suman Jyoti Khaitan, Sr. Vice President of PHD Chamber of Commerce,
Honours done by Smt. Krishna Tirath, Hon’ble Minister for Women and Child
Development, Chief Guest of CSR Conclave:
In Vatsalya Mela National Mission for Empowerment of Women (NMEW) take out daily
newsletter for Nari ki Choupal and Vatsalya Mela. The newsletter for 17th Nov. 2012
activities was inaugurated.
At Nari ki Choupal slogan writing competition on girl child was also organized by NMEW
for which the winners were given prizes of Rs. 5000/-, 3000/- and 2000/- and
consolation prizes.
Poorna Shakti Kendra Model of NMEW was launched in Pali, Rajasthan last year, Smt.
Ranjanna, District Co-ordinator was acknowledged for her hard work and performance
by giving her a Certificate of recognition.
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Sh. J. A. Chowdary from Hyderabad, President of TIE, Sh. Sanjeeva Jha, Porgramme
Leader, GMR Varalakshmi Foundation, Sh. Anil Chawla, Head of HR of North region of
TCS, Dr. Bindeshawar Pathak, Founder of Sulabh Sanitation & Social Reform
Movement, Dr. Manju Kalra Prakash, Assistant General Secretary, FICCI/FLO, Sh.
Arjun Uppal, Member, CII and Ms. Simi Suri, Group Manager CSR HCL and delegates.
She informed that this unique get-together or Conclave on Corporate Social
Responsibility is an innovative activity organised by the Mission in Vatsalya Mela and it
is first of its kind to organise such a programme with Corporates. Minister’s presence
was highly appreciated for sparing her valuable time for this conclave.
India is very large country and whatever government do, there are still lot remains to be
done. Now corporates take active part in the social development of the country. As a
part of corporate social responsibility, initially corporates used to do welfare activities for
their employees only but now they also participate in the social development of the
country. Many corporates or corporate associations have come forward to work under
CSR for the under privileged specially children, downtrodden, women etc. It will be
highly substantial, if the corporates work along with government because there are
many welfare schemes for the people but due to certain gaps in implementation at the
field level these schemes are less effective, there corporates can fill those gaps.
AS & MD, NMEW presented the background of the conclave and assured her
willingness to take forward the collaborative initiatives and concrete ventures which
would emerge from the conclave panellists about various dimensions of corporates’ role
in social development and expecting their whole hearted collaboration for furthering the
aims and objectives of the National Mission for Empowerment of Women.
Activities of Nari ki Chaupal was also shared which has been centre of attraction of
Vatsalya Mela. From day one, girls, women, NGOs, school children, general public
participate and discussed various issues related to women. This was done in the form of
dances, songs, puppet shows, dramas, nukkad nataks, slogan writing, talk shows, quiz
etc. Government has given reservation to women at various levels like at Jila
Panchayat, Gram Panchayat, Taluka Panchayat etc. they have been elected as leaders
and 30 to 35 percent Gram Panchayats are headed by women. A conclave of Dalit
Women Sarpanchs was also planned for 19th Nov. 2012. The major theme on which
the Ministry is focussing is the declining Child Sex Ratio which is also CSR. So we have
to deal with two CSRs i.e Child Sex Ratio and Corporate Social Responsibility.
Emphasis on Girl Child is because of the Sex ratio of our country. In 2011, there were
925 females on 1000 males. In Punjab, Haryana this ratio was more poor i.e. 850, 840
respectively and in some states it was as low as 730 and 720 etc. The girl child is not
allowed to be born. At one side girls are becoming President, Prime Minister, Chief
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Minister etc. and so many employees are women and on other side girls are not allowed
to take birth.
Hon’ble Minister for WCD inaugurating the conclave informed that NMEW is taking up
several convergence pilot projects for the welfare of women and few such projects were
launched on the inauguration day of Vatsalya Mela. She stated that Vatasayla Mela
was started 6 years back; initially it used to be organized in Pragati Maidan but for past
4 years it is being organized in Dilli Haat because Delhi is a cosmopolitan city and many
national and international tourists visit the city and Dilli Haat. They get an opportunity to
see and enjoy the heritage, patriotism, etc. She informed that before being Minister of
WCD in Government of India, she was in Government of NCT of Delhi as Minister of
Social Welfare and was associated with the welfare of Women, Dalit’s, Labour, etc.
Based on her previous experience many laws and schemes have been initiated for their
welfare. The Children’s Protection Act has been passed to take care of child abuse,
beggars, trafficking, child labour etc. It is necessary to create awareness among
everybody about these laws.
Welcoming the corporates and the participants from different part of the country, the
minister said that the creativity and new initiatives are encouraged by her and this year
Slogan competition on ‘Safety of Women and Children’ was initiated by NMEW with
cash prizes to the winners. The Minister was glad that CSR conclave was organized by
NMEW as per her guidance. She shared that different organisations of MoWCD like,
NMEW, NCPCR, NIPCCD, NCW, CARA, RMK etc are working for women and child
development and one important area where ministry is focusing is declining child sex
ratio where corporates can collaborate and create awareness at the grass root level.
She expressed that if there is awareness and women are empowered, pre-birth sex
selection, abortion, female foeticide will be ceased, etc.
MoWCD has started various schemes like ICDS, ICPU, SABLA, STEP etc., in order to
take care of health, nutrition, skill development, vocational training for economic
empowerment of girls and women. The ministry is planning to launch a new scheme
called SAKASHAM to create awareness and educating the girls about the needs of
health & nutrition and bridge course for their education. This scheme will be linked with
SABLA to educate children from 11 to 18 years and these children will take the spread
the message against social evils like sexual harassment, domestic violence, dowry,
child marriage, child sex ratio etc. to the grass root level. The corporates were
requested to discuss in detail, how they can collaborate with the government for
facilitating the implementation of the existing schemes. The corporates can support
ministry in facilitating the implementation of various programmes and schemes which
are for the welfare of women and child like NMEW, RMK, SABLA, IGMSY, STEP,
Swayamsiddha, Working Women Hostel, Swadhaar, ICDS, ICPS etc. The welfare
measures implemented by the government and corporates do not reach the
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beneficiaries as a result of which the funds remained unutilised or mis-utilised. The
awareness of the benefits available of the women needs to be taken up of the priority
bases. If the corporates are not able to use their CSR funds they are advised to support
the government by spending these funds for creating awareness on the schemes and
collaborate for the effective implementation of the above schemes and also of other
ministries. MoWCD caters 70% of the population (women and children) and performs
the role of a nodal ministry interfacing with other ministries like MoHFW, MoHRD,
MoHA, MoLE etc. for ensuring the development and protection of women and children.
She also highlighted the role of this Ministry in bringing connect between the policy and
the grassroots. Holistic development of a woman will be done only when she is
empowered socially, politically, economically.
The corporates should focus on higher education of women, declining child sex ratio,
nutrition, gender rights, etc. The ministry has also launch Ahimsa Messenger Scheme
to take the message of women issues and protect women from all sorts of social evils. It
is planned that after the 12th plan, there will be Ahimsa Messengers in every village of
the country and these messengers will take care of all the needs of women for their
development. The corporates should come forward and partner in the efforts of the
government for holistic development of women of the country.
EXPERIENCE SHARING BY CORPORATES
The distinguished speakers were invited one by one to share their experience and
activities under their CSR initiatives. A brief bio of the speakers was presented by Smt.
Rashmi Singh.
Shri Suman Jyoti Khaitan, Senior Vice President, PHD Chamber of Commerce
Shri Khaitan in his remarks said that the industries of India want only to respect the laws
of the Government and would like to do good things for the development of women and
children. Hundreds of years back, industries have established dharamshalas, temples,
schools and residential colonies like Tatas and Birlas have started temples, colleges
and schools at Jamshedpur and in Uttar Pradesh and girls have been given more
benefits. In Delhi also more Schools and Colleges have been set-up by corporates like
Hindu College, Ramjas College and Lady Shriram College for Women. These
institutions were set-up when CSR activities were not mandatory. Since then it has
become a part of our culture. It is mentioned in our culture that if a woman is not
respected in society or family, such society will not last long, so we have to take steps
towards this durection. We have seen the culture of respecting of women in Mahabharta
and Ramayana which will continue to remain in our Indian culture. The CSR activities
of PHD chambers was initiated 20 years back and currently under the leadership of
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Smt. Anuradha Goel. The CSR activities are in Muzaffarnagar, Meerat, Varanasi, Delhi,
Haryana and Punjab and other places. Recently, they are opening their office at Patna.
The Rural Development Foundation of PHD Chamber of Commerce has provided
support to build Check dams and provide safe drinking water. These facilities were
given where women had to travel long distances to fetch water. It has been seen that
girl students do not have books, toilet facilities etc. due to which they are drop-out from
schools. This is a social issue which need to be dealt by Government. In most of the
areas the girls are discouraged to go to school. Girls do not get skills which can lead to
employment opportunities. As per statistic available, after 10 years 30% of the total
population of the world between the age group of 13 to 65 will be Indian. If the skills of
these people are not enhanced they will not get jobs. Hence, it is suggested by many
corporates to enhance the skills of the girls so that they can get employment and
empowered economically. In this regard, PHD Chamber is conducting programmes for
skill development of girls. The chamber is running several industrial training
programmes and it was insisted that government should encourage the chamber to
organize many such programmes.
Some of the good schemes of Government like ADHAAR; MNREGA etc. are being
implemented for the welfare of the people. For effective implementation of such
schemes, corporates need to be involved. More factories need to be started by
corporates to create more number of jobs for women. The Government and the
corporates should collaborate to achieve success for welfare of women.
PHD chamber has offered to render their support to the organizations for doing the CSR
activities. Shri Khaitan also flagged the issue of Child Labour. He be sought that
unorganised sector should not encourage child labour and legal action should be taken
against them.
He also showed his concern towards Indian media. He stated that Media channels do
not show the positive developments of the country rather focus on negatives repeatedly.
Government should intervene and project its achievements through Lok Sabha T.V.,
Rajya Sabha T.V., internet etc. for which PHD Chamber is also ready to support
government.
When TATAs initiated their CSR activities in Jamshedpur, it was not their objective to
receive the noble price but to serve the country. Hence, a positive image of the country
should be created and media should also play a positive role in highlighting good
initiatives. This will encourage people to move forward to work towards the welfare of
the society especially for the empowerment of women.
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Sh. J.A. Chowdary – President, The Indian Entrepreneur (TIE)
Sh. Chowdary appreciated the Minister and officer of the Mission for their efforts to
reach the grass root level women. He also praised the dance performance by the Pali
girls who came all the way from Pali, Rajasthan to Delhi which is a result of Mission’s
efforts to empower them.
The Indian IT industry employee more than 10 lakhs women and the percentage of
women employed in the industry are increasing year by year. About 2 years before it
was only 20% of the women employed in this industry and the sector has now more
than 30% of women employees. Initially IT industry thought that gender inclusion is very
important as CSR activity. The industry started identifying women issues and tried to fix
those problems as a part of CSR activity. But today, it is not a CSR initiative and more
IT companies are employing women because they are more laborious and productivity
of the industry had grown up after employing women, brand values of the companies
also gone up and the eco-system of the organizations has improved tremendously. Shri
Chowdary mentioned that he read one report where IBM Daksh wanted only women
employees to be recruited in their organization. When they go to the colleges for
campus recruitment, only female students were invited to attend the interview. This is
because of the capability of the women employees who really demonstrate their
capacities.
Capabilities of girls are not less than boys and they exceedingly performed very well.
Recently NALSAR and NASSCOM have done some survey on how IT Industries are
providing gender inclusion as a strategy and policy. It was found that majority of the IT
companies are following the gender neutrality.
Many of the women are not reaching the top ladder as they are leaving the jobs at the
age of 28-32 years. It is observed that due to marriage and other reasons, women are
voluntarily leaving their jobs and women could not reach the top positions like Director
level, Vice-President level etc due to various commitments. There should be influencing
decision to make them employment oriented for economic sustainability and to be the
leaders in the field. For this purpose, rrecently their organization initiated a programme
in collaboration with NASSCOM called LEAD (Leadership and Development for
Women) to provide leadership skills. Under this programme, the objective is to
identifying women leaders; give them training for self-leadership, team leadership,
social leadership etc.
Shri Chowdary also shared experience of his previous company that only three per cent
of the employees were women and it was informed to him that many women could not
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be trained to take up employment in that company. Hence, a programme was designed
to train women to make them software engineers. He further stated that for the
employment of women in IT industries a special training programme in software called
WISE (Women In Software Engineering) has been initiated. Under this programme
they go to the engineering colleges and select virtuous women students and enrol them
for WISE programme. These trained women were employed in companies like Google,
Microsoft, Intel, Facebook etc. The number of women in low and middle level
management has increased but at higher level more initiatives need to be taken. For
this purpose, TIE needed the support of GOI and MoWCD for which he has agreed to
take up pilot projects with NMEW for the programmes of LEAD (Leadership and
Development for Women) and WISE (Women In Software Engineering).
Sh. Sanjeeva Jha – Programme Leader, GMR Varalakshmi Foundation
Mr. Jha shared that GMR Group Chairman and Director Ms. Meena Raghunathan is
interested to work closely with the Ministry and the Government. GMR is a huge
infrastructure company in the country, constructed the International Indira Gandhi
Airport in Delhi and Airport in Hyderabad. A separate wing of GMR for Corporate Social
Responsibility is GMR Varalakshami Foundation.
Varalakshmi Foundation has contributed and emphasised on three major sectors-
Health
Education and
Women Empowerment programme on livelihood.
The Programmes are being implemented in around 22 locations of the country and 02
locations of Nepal and in Maldives.
Foundation consists of more than 100 members and the group consist of the people
with the 12-13 years experiences in Development Sector. One of the programme is
Vocational Education for girls in which around 08 vocational training centres are
being run in the country, approximately 4000 youths in the age group of 18-25 years
from the poor, underprivileged, disadvantages, marginalised community are covered.
The training period is for 3 to 4 months and the trained youths are placed in the market
so that they can earn their living. This vocational training will be linked with corporate
sectors like Maruti, Voltas, DLF, computer related vocational training with Microsoft (and
placement of trainees in the relevant field).
In last five years 11 thousand youths were trained and got job placements in which 9
thousand were girls. Out of these 9 thousand girls who were trained, 85% are absorbed
in the market and earning good salary.
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Case Study: A girl named Manju, daughter of migrant labour family came from
Bihar and worked at the construction sites in Bangalore. She received training
from the IT Company and presently she is doing job in Christopher B.P.O.
Company and earns more than Rs.6000/- as a monthly remuneration. This
vocational training is very helpful in empowering them and to maintain their
dignity.
Another approach is The Empower Trust – Enabling marketing of products prepared by
women entrepreneurs. The SHGs used to make products but they do not have market
to sell due to which their effort goes waste. The Empower Trust train these SHGs of
women and their products are being promoted by this Trust thus, facilitating marketing.
For marketing of the products of these SHGs, GMRVF has opened shops, at
Hyderabad airport two shops, in associated companies in Delhi NCR like Voltas, Maruti,
DLF etc. they put up the stalls for selling their products and the profit earned is being
used for further investment in strengthening of the SHGs.
Third approach of GMR Varalakshmi Foundation is running of 15 tent Schools in
Bangalore with the support of Karnataka Government, in which 800 children are
studying and out of 800 children, 600 are girls.
Dr. Anil Chawla – Head of HR for North Region, TCS
Sharing the experiences of the CSR activities in TCS, informed that 80 thousand
women are working in their organization. This constitutes 32% of the total work force.
TCS mainly focuses on 3 major areas – Education, Health and Environment as a part of
their CSR activities. The activities have well defined structure. The organization relies
on development of core competencies namely, information technology, whether the
programmes are for women, children and other weaker sections that need the training
for the development of competencies. TCS mainly, focuses on two activities to develop
competencies in the 3 focus areas. Some of the activities are driven by the company
itself. The organization ensures fair level of competencies and in a flexible manner.
The activities attempted are outcome based and impact on certain section of the society
like school children. The organization has adopted some Schools and Villages; the
employees go there and teach the children. In case of IT training, test is conducted to
check the competency of the kids in operating computer systems and how far they are
successful in the training imparted. They also teach computer related skills in their
subjects of study.
The challenge before the CSR activities of the corporates is how far the benefits reach
the grass root since; there are many leakages in between.
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Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak – Founder, Sulabh Sanitation and Social Reform
Movement, The Sulabh International
Appreciating the subject of the conclave, he shared that on 20 January 1961 there was
an inaugural function in which John Reed has given speech and said “Don’t ask what
government has done for you, ask what you have done for government”. Similarly, the
way TATA and Birla’s have done in the field of social development. The important
matter is that “God has helped you to help someone” and it is good that public sector is
working for the society’s needy and disadvantage group. Mr. Pathak shared that when
Bill Gates had come to India at Bheem ji, Prem ji’s home, these big businessmen met
and had collective view that they earned enough money and now they want to work for
the poor, underprivileged and needy people of the society. Helping the destitute and
poor is same as Serve the God. He told about one of his schools which provided the
free education in English Medium to 60% SC/ST students and 40% others. He
suggested that the corporates should run these type of schools in country because
today it’s the need of hour that every child need should be educated from the English
Medium to move ahead in his/her life and free English Medium education helps a lot the
underprivileged and weaker section children to grow and progress in life.
In Mahabharata, when Yuddhister asked Bhishma Pitamaha that what the things are
given in charity, Yudhishter replied food and water. Bhishma Pitamaha immediately
replied not to provide food or water in charity instead give them the education so that
they become self-reliant and it is rightly said that “Shiksha Daan, Mahadaan hai”. Until
the children of SC/ST and other weaker section would not get the English Medium
education they will not be able to mainstream themselves. So corporates under CSR
would help. Dr. Pathak said that he is from NGO and having 44 years’ experience of
working in this area. The Former President told him to change the name of his
organisation to ‘Societal Task Formation’ because he is changing the society. In 1968
when he started talking about the toilets nobody wanted to listen but now the President,
Prime Minister, Members of the Parliament, all are now talking about sanitation and
toilets. On advice of Supreme Court, Sulabh International is providing one time meal
(dinner) to the widows of the Vrindavan Ashrams. Lastly, he mentioned that whatever is
possible for Sulabh International to support NMEW will do for the empowerment of
women.
Smt. Manju Kalara – Assistant Secretary General, FICCI/FLO
FICCI/FLO is exclusively working for the development of women in the country. The
FICCI is PAN India body with ten chapters throughout the country, one each in North
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East and in Gujarat and other parts of the country, latest chapter opened is in
Bangalore. FICCI is working at three levels namely:-
Grass root level
Middle level, and
Entrepreneurship level
FICCI/FLO connects the people and facilitate for bridging the gap. FICCI also connects
internationally to make them entrepreneurs. Looking at the footprints of the works in
India, FICCI has done lot of capacity building workshops and entrepreneurship
programmes for women to make them self-reliant. One good programme FICCI/FLO
has started for the education of the girl child in collaboration with ITI for women at Delhi.
One lady had income of 50 paise per day and after 20 years, with the help of FICCI/FLO
she has started earning Rs. 2 lakhs per month, another women is also successful
entrepreneur and both the women received award from FICCI/FLO for their endeavours.
During the event, FICCI/FLO proposed a partnership with NMEW in their US training
programme.
Sh. Arjun Uppal – Member, CII National Council on Development Initiatives &
Vice President-Corporate Affairs, DCM Shriram Consolidated Ltd
Like any other chamber of commerce the CII has created a platform for both the NGOs
and the corporates who are interested in taking up activities for the welfare of the
weaker section of the society like women, children and others. The CII has already
developed a directory of NGOs, their activities and the geographical area of their
operation. The organization has also linked up the NGOs with corporates wherever,
they want to work. CII is working in several other areas and narrated their experience
with the four sugar mills and the sugar cane farmers in that area. They observed that
the productivity of the farmers was very low. After, their special interventions and
ensuring good practices, the productivity enhanced by 2.5 – 3 times. This resulted in the
higher income for the farmers and better living.
CII have initiated process for developing their website. The website will provide the first-
hand knowledge of involvement of CII in making the linkages with corporates- a reality.
There are a lot of other activities related to farming done by women who are most
deprived section of the area. Hence, CII worked for their welfare, started diary
programme and facilitated the marketing of the milk produced by them and women
started receiving higher income due to the efforts of CII. The women were given
technical advice and support for dairy farming. CII also provides veterinary services;
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doctors visit on regular basis and conduct periodic check-up of the animals to ensure
regular milk supply.
In the district of Jalawar in Rajasthan they have started huge kitchen which served
around 7000 meals per day in the Mid-day meal programme run by the government.
Some health programmes are also implemented by them.
Shri Uppal also shared his experiences in Hindustan leaver where he was previously
serving in which they have worked for women welfare in the areas of health and legal
assistance. He said that CII is open for any partnership and collaboration with NGOs
and also encourage linkage with corporates.
Smt. Simi Suri – Group Manager CSR, HCL Foundation
While sharing the experiences of CSR activities in HCL, she insisted that everything
needs to be holistically rather than focussing on one or other activities. The children are
given IT skills by different agencies but HCL adds value to the possessing skills. The
organization likes to be a knowledge hub related to IT sector. The priority focus is on the
improvement of education in the slums wherever the quality people are not there.
In their website they have given details of their CSR activities and the programme is
known as “power of one”. The HCL foundation works for nurturing the talents of women
and helped 42 young women in building emotional competencies, communication skills,
power of effective leadership and power of self-employees take sessions and tuitions.
Recently, they organized one programme in Government Juvenile Home
Purasawakkam in Chennai for girls to train less privileged and girls in the age group of
16 – 17 years in various forms of Art, Music to promote their talent and provide
opportunity to exhibit their hidden talent. The organization also conduct training
programmes on life skills awareness programmes for personal safety and security with
special focus on reproductive health and advocacy for about 800 adolescent girls of 14
to 20 years. They also organize leadership training programmes, capacity building
programmes etc. HCL foundation provides job opportunities for girl of age group 17 – 24
years. Since, this is 1 year old organization there are a lot of activities and areas, the
foundation plans to initiate in future.
Open house discussion- Shri Sudhir Sejwal from Happy Organization (NGO) desired
to know the way of collaborating of NGOs with CII. Shri Arjun Uppal from CII responded
to his query by sharing his email id and further he will link to the concerned person in his
organization.
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Smt. Ratna Prabha, Additional Secretary and Mission Director, NMEW
Smt. Ratna Prabha in her closing remarks said that the idea of organizing CSR
Conclave during Vatsalaya Mela was to invite corporates to share with the audience
their initiatives in social development especially for women. This was a beginning by
NMEW, but a larger programme with more corporates will also be organized in future for
partnerships. The speakers were acknowledged for devoting their valuable time and
sharing of their activities within the limited period of time which has generated lot of
ideas for thought.
Appreciating the initiatives of Dr. Pathak for scavengers, it was felt that the Mission
should have collaborative project with them. Similarly, the GMR group do lot through
GMR Varalakshmi Foundation. G. Mallika Arjun Rao (GMR) announced the 1/3rd of the
profits of the company for CSR activities and for women.
Shri.J.A.Chowdhary’s small speech was very effective. His willingness to collaborate
with NMEW for two projects of WISE and LEAD is a good initiative of partnership for
women empowerment. In most of the houses especially in urban and semi urban at
least one or two children are in the IT Sector. There is an increase in the women
employed in the IT sector is from 20% to 30%. It has been observed that women drop-
out from jobs from middle level due to marriage, pregnancy, transfer of husbands and
child rearing etc. and hence they do not reach the high end.
Mr. Chowdary has offered to work with the Mission for these women who were drop-out
and again want to come back to their jobs. Mostly people think that IT is a glamorous
sector, women working here are empowered and nothing has to be done in this area.
But as Mr. Chowdary shared that highly educated women are also drop-outs from their
job. After a long break if they need to come back to the sector they need to be
encouraged and trained to meet the gap through the programme named LEAD
(Leadership and Development for Women). It has also been observed that only 3%
women are into High-End Services which needs to be increased for which program of
WISE (Women In Software Engineering) is being implemented. TIE and NMEW will be
converging together for the implementation of programmes of LEAD & WISE. Under
Indo-US-collaboration to train Women Entrepreneurs and get mentorship from US. This
collaboration of NMEW with FICCI/FLO is another outcome of this collaboration.
Smt. Ratna Prabha acknowledged the participation and social service done by the TCS,
CII, HCL, GMR, Sulabh etc. An opportunity to come forward to take up the pilots of
NMEW in different sectors was offered by her to the speakers which will a good
combination of government and corporates. This will also motivate other corporates to
work with NMEW under their CSR initiatives.
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At last, all the audience were thanked for patiently listening after lovely dance from the
Pali girls. She also thanked Smt. Rashmi Singh, Executive Director of the Mission who
has been the spirit behind the entire Mela and for her idea of Nari ki Choupal, which is
very successful event. This kind of Nari ki Choupal should be organized in every gram
panchayat to create awareness on women issues.
Smt. Rashmi Singh thanked and expressed gratitude to AS & MD, NMEW under whose
support and guidance, the conclave became successful and for her encouraging words
to show a road ahead. Also thanked all the speakers to give a good insight about their
CSR activities especially focussing women in a limited time given and the delegates
who participated in the event. Last, but not the least the team of NMEW who put in their
hard work to make this event happened on the platform of Vatsalya Mela. She also
expressed that this association will be carried forward with more partnerships and
collaborations with NMEW for women empowerment.
Towards the end, AS&MD, NMEW felicitated the speakers of the Conclave and Dr.
Bindeshwar Pathak from Sulabh International also felicitated the speakers and team on
NMEW for successful completion of the conclave.
“Looking forward for more convergence to happen for the
Empowerment of Women.”
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Annexure A
PROGRAMME SCHEDULE
S.No Sessions Timings
1
Welcome address by Smt. K.Ratna Prabha, AS & MD, National Mission for Empowerment of Women, MWCD, GOI
5:00 pm – 5:05 pm
2 Opening address by Smt. Krishna Tirath, Hon’ble Minister, Ministry of Women and Child Development, GOI
5:05 pm- 5:15 pm
3 CSR initiatives through PHD Chamber of Commerce by Shri Suman Jyoti Khaitan, Senior Vice President
5:15 pm- 5:20 pm
4 Empowering Women through employment in IT industries by Shri J.A. Chowdary, President, TIE
5:20 pm- 5:25 pm
5 Experience and Learning in Women Empowerment by Shri Sanjeeva Jha, Programme Leader, GMR Varalakshmi Foundation
5:25 pm- 5:30 pm
6 CSR initiatives for Women Empowerment by Shri Anil Chawla, Head of HR for North Region, TCS
5:30 pm- 5:35 pm
7 CSR initiatives in sanitation sector by Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, Founder, Sulabh Sanitation and Social Reform Movement
5:35 pm- 5:40 pm
8 Empowering Women through Entrepreneurship by Dr. Manju Kalra Prakash, Assistant Secretary General, FICCI/ FLO
5:40 pm- 5:45 pm
9 National Movement for Mainstreaming CSR for Sustained Inclusiveness by Shri Arjun Uppal, Member, CII National Council on Development Initiatives and Vice President - Corporate Affairs, DCM Shriram Consolidated Ltd (DSCL)
5:45 pm- 5:50 pm
10 CSR initiative towards women empowerment by Ms Simi Suri, Group Manager CSR, HCL
5:50 pm- 5:55 pm
11 Open House Discussion
5:55 pm – 6:55 pm
12 Summing up and Vote of thanks by Smt. Rashmi Singh, Executive Director, National Resource Centre for Women/ National Mission for Empowerment of Women, MWCD, GOI
6:55 pm- 7:00 pm
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Annexure B
BIO-DATA OF SPEAKERS
1) PHD Chamber- Mr. Suman Jyoti Khaitan is a practicing advocate since 1985. He
founded the law firm, Suman Khaitan & Co.and Khaitan & Partners. He is presently the
Senior Vice President of PHDCCI. He is also on the Managing Committee of ASSOCHAM
and is presently the Chair of National Legal Affairs Council. He is also on the Managing
Committee of ICC India, International Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution and
Indian Council of Arbitration.
2) TIE- Mr. Jakkampudi Adiseshaiah Chowdary has been associated with
Information Technology for well over two decades. Mr. Chowdary is credited with
developing the IT industry in the states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu in
his capacity as the founding Director of STPI Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai and also
played a major role in founding the IIIT at Hyderabad. is presently the Co-Chairman of
FICCI AP Chapter. He has founded the “Let’s Vote” initiative to help citizens of India find
their voice and exercise their rights. He is also actively associated with several
philanthropic activities and is the Executive President of ADI (Anantapur Development
Initiative) Foundation, established with the aim of developing the Anantapur region by
providing employment opportunities to the youth of the region in several sectors like
infrastructure, IT, Retail marketing etc. He has also enthusiastically furthered the
Corporate Social Responsibility through the “Save Our Schools” program of the Naandi
organization. Recognition to his work has come by way of the Meritorious invention
award from National Research & Development Corporation (NRDC) for his invention of
"On-line Pollution Monitoring System" for Thermal Power Stations, the Silver Jubilee
Award from the Hyderabad Management Association (HMA) for his outstanding
contribution to the growth of Indian Software Industry and a special award from
Hyderabad Software Exporters Association for his outstanding contribution to the IT
Industry. He also received the UDYOG RATAN AWARD for the year 2007 from Delhi
Telugu Academy for overall achievements and his magnificent contributions to the
betterment of society in the field of IT Industry.
3) GMR- Sanjeeva Jha from GMR Varalakshmi Foundation has worked with various
grassroots level NGOs and INGOs in the state of Bihar, Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh,
Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. He has been working in the social development sector for
over 13 years projects on RCH, ARSH, SHG formation and strengthening, Village level
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Planning, Basic Education, Nutrition, Early Child Care & Development, Women
Empowerment, Livelihoods and Child Development. At present he is heading the GMR
Foundation operations in North India and Nepal.
4) TCS- Dr. A. K. Chawla is the Head of Human Resources for TCS- North and working
with TCS for past 16 years. He worked with State Bank Group for 15 years prior joining
TCS. He has more than 33 years’ experience in entrepreneurship, Banking, Consulting,
Assurance and HR and actively involved with Academia in multiple areas He is a
Doctorate in Management from IIM, Ahmedabad with specialization in Organizational
Behaviour.
5) Sulabh Internatonal- Dr. Bindheshwar Pathak is is not an unknown name. Dr.
Pathak's multi-pronged efforts in bringing scavengers, worst victims of institutionalized
caste discrimination and engaged in a sub-human occupation, in the mainstream of
national life has taken the shape of a movement for social justice. He is the founder of
Sulabh International, an India-based social service organization which works to promote
human rights, environmental sanitation, non-conventional sources of energy, waste
management and social reforms through education. His work is considered one of the
pioneer in social reform especially in the field of sanitation and hygiene. He is a prolific
writer and speaker, authored several books, the most well-known of which is ‘The Road
to Freedom’, and is a frequent participant in conferences on sanitation, health, and social
progress around the world. He received various national and international awards for his
work with this organization. He is a Padma Bhushan recipient from the Government of
India, received Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award for Environment, the Dubai
International Award for Best Practices and many more.
6) FICCI- Dr Manju Kalra Prakash, with a PhD in Economics, has over two decades of
rich and varied experience in International Affairs and has promoted commercial and
trade relations between India and countries of America, Middle East, Africa, ASEAN and
OCEANIC. She has presented various papers at international conferences in Australia,
Malaysia and Bangkok, Nepal, India etc. She is also the Business Mentor for the Amity run
Management Institutes and Member of the Advisory Council at Institute of Management
Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad. She has received awards for her distinguished services for
promoting business activities from the Confederation of Asia Pacific Chambers of
Commerce and Industry, Israel, Trade Award and European Union nominated her for
their prestigious European Union Visitors’ Programme. At present is is Assistant Secretary
General in FICCI.
7) CII- Shri Arjun Uppal is a Chartered Accountant by training. He is currently Vice
President in Corporate Affairs at DCM Shriram Consolidated Ltd. (DSCL). He has been an
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Advisor to ICICI Bank’s Rural Credit Businesses and Managing Director of Mother Dairy
Foods Ltd., he spent 19 years with Hindustan Unilever Ltd also. He is associated with the
BASIX group as well as several NGOs.
8) HCL- Simi Suri is CSR Lead for HCL Technologies. She has been involved with CSR
work for over twelve years now, and has focused on a few social causes such as education
for the poor and underprivileged, empowerment of women and girl children, health and
hygiene, environment, and personality development etc. She is involved in identifying
social causes so that organization can support or make a difference in, partnering with
NGOs/ other partners, conceptualizing and executing social welfare programs with active
participation from HCL colleagues.
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Annexure C
List of Participants
List of Speakers
S.
N
o
Name Designation Organization Name Tele No Email ID
1 Dr. Anil Chawla Head of HR for
North Region
Tata Consultancy
Services Ltd, 4 PTI
Blidg., Parliament Street,
New Delhi – 01
Ph.
23715552
Mb.
9250008232
om
2 Mr. Jyoti Suman
Khaitan
Sr. Vice president
PHD Chamber, Hauz
Khaz, New Delh-
3 Shri. J.A.
Chowdary
President The Indus Entrepreneurs
8-2-277/B, Inwinex
Tower Grd. Floor, Road
No. 2, Banjara Hills,
Hyderabad - 500034
Mo.0986600
0076
jachowdary@gma
il.com
4 Dr. Manju Kalra
Prakash
Assistant
Secretary
General
FICCI Ladies
Organization, Tansen
Marg, New Delhi – 01
Tel : +91- 11-
23316535
Mb.
981116846
5 Mr Arjun Uppal Vice President –
Corporate Affairs
CII DCM Shriram
Consolidated Ltd.
(DSCL)
5th Floor, Kanchenjunga
Bldg.18, Barakhamba
Road, New Delhi – 01
Mb.
9899166776
arjunuppal@dscl.
com
6 Mr. Sanjeeva
Jha
Programme
Leader
GMR Varalakshmi
Foundation Delhi
International Airport (P),
Ltd.
New Udaan Bhawan,
Opp. Terminal 3, IGI
Airport, New Delhi - 37
Mo.0956079
9586
sanjeevakumar.jh
25
7 Ms. Simi Suri Group Manager -
CSR
HCL Foundation
A-9, Sector-3, Noida
(U.P)
Mo.0981812
5404
m
8 Dr. Bindeshwar
Pathak
Chairperson &
Founder
Sulabh Sanitation &
Social Reform
Movement,
Sulabh International
Social Service
Organisation, Mahavir
Enclave, Palam-Dabri
Road, New Delhi – 45
Mo.:
9810403335,
9999427777
bindeshwarpatha
List of Participants (Delegates)
9 Sh. Ravish
Roshan
Advisor Centre for Education
Growth and Research
9971026007 ravish.roshan
m
10 Sh. S.P Verma General Manager –
Education
Jindal Steel & Power Ltd.
6th Floor, MTNL Building,
8, Bhikaji Cama Place,
New Delhi – 66
8826583555 sp.verma@ji
ndalsteel.co
m
11 Sh. Swami
Suprakasha
Ananda
Ramakrishna Seva
Ashram, Vrindavan
9412226311
3
rkmsvmd@g
mail.com,
info@rkmsvri
nd.org,
office@rkmsv
rind.org
12 Sh. Swami
Mokshavakita,
Ananda
Ramakrishna Seva
Ashram, Vrindavan
13 Sh. Praveen
Talwar
Ramakrishna Seva
Ashram, Vrindavan
14 Sh. Sushil
Pandit
Ramakrishna Seva
Ashram, Vrindavan
9811111088 sushil28p@g
mail.com
15 Sh. Om
Prakash
Project Officer
Campaigns
Bachpan Bachao Andolan
L-6, Kalkaji, New Delhi -
19
9015125007,
9868655109
omprakash@
bba.corg.on
16 Sh. R. Sampat Chairman Indian Institute of 9313610982 rsampat@vs
26
Industrial Engineering,
SMG-132, Shivalik
Apartment, Alaknanda,
New Delhi – 19.
IIIE – Community Centre
(Gr. Floor), Central
Market, DDA Flats,
Kalkaji, New Delhi - 19
nl.com
rsampat@hot
mail.com
17 Sh. K.K.
Dwivedi
SRI Society 9839156513 sri_wellbeing.
co.in
18 Dr. Rana
Singh
Sr. Faculty Member EIBFS 8800049885 dr.ranasingh
@gmail.com
19 Ms. Atiya Bano Supervisor (Gr-1) Govt. of A.P., Hyderabad 9440472796
20 Ms. Shvani
Mehrotra
Programme Officer GMR Foundation
GMR Varalakshmi
Foundation Delhi
International Airport Ltd
near terminal-3 opp. ATC
Complex, , IGI Airport,
New Delhi – 37
9882216276 shivani.mehr
otra@gmrgo
up.in
21 Sh. Manoj
Kumar
Mavuduru
Programme Officer GMR Foundation
GMR Varalakshmi
Foundation Delhi
International Airport Ltd
near terminal-3 opp. ATC
Complex, , IGI Airport,
New Delhi - 37
8527098220 Manojkumar.
Mavuduru@g
mrgoup.in
22 Sh. Pratap
Negi
GEM------- Winson Group of
Company
9958922257
23 Sh. K.
Jawaharlal
Director Confederation of India
Industry,
India Habitat Centre
Core – 4A, 4th Floor, Lodi
Road, New Delhi – 03
9910475074 jawahar.k@ci
i.in
24 Ms. Mitali
Ghosh
Dy. Director Confederation of India
Industry
9999133314 mitali.ghosh
@cii.in
27
India Habitat Centre Core
– 4A, 4th Floor, Lodi Road,
New Delhi - 03
25 Sh. Kishan
Gopal
Corporate Social
Responsibility
TATA Consultancy
Services Ltd.
TCS Awadh Park Vibhuti
Khand Gomti Nagar,
Lucknow – 226 010
8527288001 kishan.gopal
@tcs.com
26 Sh. P. Nagaraj SPA/Secy. to
Director
IGNOU University
Maidan Garhi, New Delhi -
68
9013705718 pnagaraj@ig
nou.ac.in
27 Sh. Tarun Project Ordit at 7838257338
28 Sh. Noorjahan
Khatun
Project Leader Cariema Seva Sadan
Radhanagar,
Chhototurigram, Birbhum,
West Bengal.
8302707033 noorjahankha
tun1@gmail.
com
29 Sh. Abhishek
Hegde
Associate
Programme
Development
National Skill
Development Corporation
(NSDC)
Block – A, Clarion
Collection (Qutab Hotel),
Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg,
New Delhi - 16
0880229692
8
abhishek.heg
de@nsdcindi
a.org
30 Sh. Sujeet
Annurag
ASHA 9312619155
31 Ms. Shreya
Pandey
Student EMPI B-School 8800782128
32 Ms. Charu
Bhateley
Student EMPI B-School 8527680939
33 Mr.
Vishavdeep
Thakur
Student EMPI B-School 9871310020
34 Sh.Vikas Jha Group Leader,
Policy Governance
& Advocacy
IRRAD,
Plot No. 34, Sector – 44,
Institutional Area Gurgaon
– 122003, Haryana
9868736457 [email protected]
rg
35 Sh. Vinod
Kumar
Consultant CBI/IPCC/N.D.
37-5 CBI/Colony Vasant
9868604199
28
Vihar
36 Sh. Rajesh
Dang
Change Initiative 9212142402 rajeshdang@
gmail.com
37 Ms. Garima
Babbar
KPMG 9910055504
38 Ms. Anita Faridabad 9953562876
39 Ms. Meenu Faridabad 9654343761
40 Ms. Anuradha Faridabad 9953103114
41 Ms. Seema Faridabad 9911143277
42 Ms. Rukmani Faridabad 8826175548
43 Ms. Alka Ketori DAV, Sect-37, Faridabad 9819663299
44 Ms. Sunita
Ahuja
DAV, Sect-37, Faridabad 9811179112
45 Sh. Santosh
Kaul
DAV, Sect-37, Faridabad 9811331622
46 Ms. Priyanka
Thompson
Stakeholder
Engagement
Manipal City and Guilds 9910155584 priyanka.tho
mpson@man
ipalcityandgui
lds.com
47 Mr. Manoj
Kumar
Kaushik
LIC of India 9810372234 Mkoshik@ya
hoo.com
48 Sh. Sandeep
Sneh
P E R S O N 9718857359 SandeepSne
m
49 Sh. Rajesh
Kapoor
Director I.G. Vocational Training
Institute, 1 West Kidwai
Nagar, Near to Dill Haat
Tourism Office.
8527901766 IGVTISolutio
m
50 Sh. Harsh
Sharma
Facilitator &
Placement
Coordinator
Rural Institute of Skill and
Enterprise Development of
India
D-46, Indirapure No. -2,
Loni, Ghaziabad
9958449946 HarshSharm
a@RiseIndia.
net.in
51 Ms. Saumya
Mukherjee
Sr. Research
Scientists
Fresenius Kobi
Organization Ltd.
2/12 – Kirti Nagar,
7838746565
29
Gurgaon
52 Ms. Meenakshi
Pradeep
Primary Teacher Department of Education.
85, IIIrd Floor, Chirag
Delhi.
9810152188
List of NMEW Staff
53 Prof. K.R.
Chandrasekar
an
Sr. Project Advisor NMEW, Janpath Hotel,
New Delhi - 01
23340304 nmew.se@g
mail.com
54 Dr. Sulochana
Vasudevan
Sr. Project Advisor NMEW, Janpath Hotel,
New Delhi - 01
23340304 nmew.ee@g
mail.com
55 Ms. Barnali Sr. Project Advisor NMEW, Janpath Hotel,
New Delhi - 01
23340304 nmew.mc@g
mail.com
56 Ms. Meenakshi Sr. Project Advisor NMEW, Janpath Hotel,
New Delhi - 01
23340304 nmew.hn@g
mail.com
57 Dr. Payal Sahu Sr. Research Officer NMEW, Janpath Hotel,
New Delhi - 01
23340304 nmew.se@g
mail.com
58 Dr. Vasudha Sr. Research Officer NMEW, Janpath Hotel,
New Delhi - 01
23340304 nmew.hn@g
mail.com
59 Ms.
Subhashree
Sr. Research Officer NMEW, Janpath Hotel,
New Delhi - 01
23340304
60 Ms. Shamishta Sr. Research Officer NMEW, Janpath Hotel,
New Delhi - 01
23340304 nmew.mc@g
mail.com
61 Dr. Arvind
Rana
Research Assistant NMEW, Janpath Hotel,
New Delhi - 01
23340304 nmew.se@g
mail.com
62 Ms. Nisha Jha Research Assistant NMEW, Janpath Hotel,
New Delhi – 01
23340304 nmew.se@g
mail.com
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63 Dr. Kavita Research Assistant NMEW, Janpath Hotel,
New Delhi – 01
23340304 nmew.ee@g
mail.com
64 Mr. Devashish Research Assistant NMEW, Janpath Hotel,
New Delhi – 01
23340304 nmew.cm@g
mail.com
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Annexure E
Abbreviations
CSR Corporate Social Responsibility
GOI Government of India
MWCD Ministry of Women and Child Development
NCPCR National Commission for Protection of Child Rights
NIPCCD National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development
NCW National Commission for Women
CARA Central Adoption Resource Authority
RMK Rashtriya Mahila Kosh
ICPU Integrated Child Protection Unit
SABLA Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent girls
STEP Support to Training and Employment Programme for Women
MoHRD Ministry of Human Resource Development
MoHA Ministry of Home Affairs
MoLE Ministry of Labour & Employment
ICDS Integrated Child Development Services
MNREGA Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
LEAD Leadership and Development for Women
WISE Women In Software Engineering
TCS Tata Consultancy Service
TIE The Indian Entrepreneur
FICCI Federation of Industries of Chamber of Commerce of India
FLO FICCI Ladies Organization
CII Confederation of India Industries
GMR G.Mallikarjun Rao
MOHFW Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
MOHRD Ministry of Human Resource Development
NGO Non-Government Organization
NMEW National Mission for Empowerment of Women
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Annexure F
RECOMMENDATION
SUGGESTIONS FROM NMEW FOR CSR ACTIVITIES
Corporates can support in-
Providing/ enhancing additional infrastructure in government schools like rooms,
electric equipment, science lab, water, sanitation, sport equipment, playground,
genset, libraries etc.
Providing remedial coaching facilities and organizing bridge courses
Providing/ enhancing additional facilities in Anganwari centres, Mid-day meal
services like chairs, toys, educational equipment etc.
Awareness activities amongst parents of school dropout children especially girls
Providing trainings and capacity building of front line workers
Providing safe transport facility for women workers
Providing safe transport facility for female students
Providing scholarships to girl students
Promote/ provide livelihood programmes
Promote/ provide vocational training/ skill development to girls leading to job
opportunities
Promote/ provide training in performing arts and conducting competitions
Promote/ provide life skill trainings, self-defence and value education
Developing IEC material/activities state specific pertaining to the issues in regional
languages
Institution of awards to children, incentives and educational loans