The CSR Journal Excellence Awards proudly steps into its fifth yr, this time with ‘India First’ as its theme. We at The CSR Journal intention to inspire, encourage and encourage corporates and different industrial ventures in addition to our residents to come ahead and do one thing for the profit of society and our fellow residents, particularly marginalised, underprivileged and weak. The CSR Journal Excellence Awards is a platform to encourage extra such company & citizen social initiatives which is able to assist in bringing about optimistic social change. We hope that this may multiply with a snowball impact in order that 10 noble initiatives at present can encourage a 100 tomorrow.
The fifth version of The CSR Journal Excellence Awards is all set to be held on 25 February 2023, at the National Stock Exchange in Mumbai. The Honourable Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Shri Eknath Shinde, will be gracing the occasion as our Chief Guest this yr.
Uday Samant, Minister For Industries, Government of Maharashtra, and Shri. Sudhir Mungantiwar, Minister for Forests, Cultural Affairs, Fisheries, Government of Maharashtra, are our Guests of Honour for the night.
The Excellence Awards 2022 goals to honour progressive and greatest practices within the sphere of company social duty, recognising the very best practices in 5 classes.
These are Education & Skill Training, Women Empowerment & Child Welfare, Environment, Agriculture & Rural Development and Health & Sanitation.
Following are the highest nominees in every class (Organisation; Project Name) for this yr:
Education & Skill Training
– IndusInd Bank Limited
– Prarambhik Bhasha Shikshan Karyakram (PBSK) / Early Language Learning (ELL) on Haryana
– Jindal Steel and Power — Asha the Hope – an initiative to empower Divyangjan
– Dabur India Limited — School Support Programme – ‘Adarsh Pathshala – Ek Nai Pahal’
Women Empowerment & Child Welfare
– Parexel International (India) Private Limited (Part of Parexel Global) — DISHA
– Vedanta Limited — Nand Ghar
– National Mineral Development Corporation Limited – Balika Shiksha Yojana
Environment
– Indian Oil Corporation Limited – 5 Tons Per Day Cattle Dung to Biogas Plant at Gorakhnath Temple, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh
– Tata Capital Financial Services Limited – Climate Action – Water Security and Renewable Energy
– Sterlite Technologies Limited — Holistic Water Program
Agriculture & Rural Development
– Grasim Industries Limited (a flagship firm of Aditya Birla Group) — Ensuring Sustainable Livelihoods via Best Practices
– SBI Foundation — SBI Youth for India Fellowship Programme
– Nayara Energy Limited — Gramsamruddhi
Health & Sanitation
– GAIL (India) Limited — Arogya
– PVR Limited — Safe Centres Programme
– Gland Pharma Limited and its CSR wing Gland-Fosun Foundation (a Public Charitable Trust of Gland Pharma Limited) — Health Plan for Socio-Economically Challenged Children
The CSR Journal acquired a document quantity of purposes in every of these classes, out of which the above top-3 nominations had been shortlisted by the Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay, our Knowledge Partner for The CSR Journal Excellence Awards 2022. For the ultimate spherical, the esteemed Jury Members liable for analyzing and declaring the winner, first runner-up and second runner-up are –
Education & Skill Training
– S. Saharia, IAS (Retd.), former-State Election Commissioner, Maharashtra, former-Chief Secretary, Government of Maharashtra & Chairman, ISHAD
– Ranjitsinh Disale, Educationist, Winner, Global Teacher Prize (2020) & Advisor, The World Bank
– Abhay Ojha, Chief Business Officer, Zee Media
Women Empowerment & Child Welfare
– Yashasvi Yadav, IPS, Special IGP, Maharashtra Cyber Department
– Nidhi Chaudhary, IAS, Joint Commissioner, Sales Tax
– Reena Jha Tripathi, IRS, Chief Commissioner of Income Tax-1, Mumbai, Mumbai Region
Environment
– Bakul Rao, Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas , IIT-Bombay
– A. Rajeev, IAS (Retd.), former-Metropolitan Commissioner, MMRDA, Mumbai & Director, Urban World Consulting
– Shankar Deshpande, Chief, Town & Country Planning Division at Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority & Director, MMR-EIS
Agriculture & Rural Development
– Surinder Singh Jodhka, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University
– Sumit Kumar, IRS, Commissioner, Income Tax, Kanpur
– Vishwanath Giriraj, IAS (Retd.), former-Chairman, Fifth State Finance Commission, Maharashtra & present, Chief Executive Officer, Maharashtra Bamboo Promotion Foundation
Health & Sanitation
– Dr Bhaskar Chatterjee, IAS (Retd.), Formerly, Director General & CEO, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, New Delhi.
– Dr Rajendra Bharud, IAS, Commissioner, Tribal Research & Training Institute
– Ajit Kumar Jain, IAS (Retd.), former-State Information Commissioner, Maharashtra, former Addtl. Chief Secretary, Govt. of Maharashtra & at the moment the Chairman and Managing Director of ERAF – Environmental Research Foundation
This yr, The CSR Journal’s Special Commendation Award in Corporate Social Responsibility will be awarded to:
– Capgemini Technology Services India Limited
– Castrol India Limited
– Coca-Cola India Private Limited
– Dell International Services India Pvt. Ltd.
– L&T Technology Services
– Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Limited
– Sanofi India Limited
– SBI General Insurance Company Limited
– Schaeffler India
– TATA Power
– United Breweries Limited
The CSR Journal is happy to announce a particular class of awardees:
This yr, Dr. Abhay Bang and Dr. Rani Bang, Founder & Director Society for Education, Action, and Research in Community Health, from Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, will be honoured with ‘The CSR Journal Lifetime Achievement Award – 2022’.
The CSR Journal Award for Excellence in Future Leadership – 2022 will be coffered upon Shri. Sudhir Mungantiwar, Minister of Forests, Cultural Affairs and Fisheries, Government of Maharashtra.
Patna-based Khan Sir who enjoys a fan following on social media as a digital educator, will be honoured with ‘The CSR Journal Youth Icon Award – 2022’. The influencer and actor Prajakta Koli will be felicitated with ‘The CSR Journal Influencing Youth Icon Award – 2022’.
Muthoot Finance Limited’s venture Cup of Life – a Guinness World Record marketing campaign, will be recognised with The CSR Journal’s Innovation and Corporate Leadership in Healthcare Award. Friends Union for Energizing Lives University will be recognised with The CSR Journal’s Skilling for Capacity Building & Livelihood Generation Award 2022 for his or her devoted efforts in the direction of vocational training in India.
“Over the previous one yr, CSR investments and initiatives have recalibrated themselves to deal with and transfer past the fault traces induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. The fifth version of The CSR Journal Excellence Awards, marks an essential milestone within the journey we embarked upon in 2016. The expertise, help and cooperation of numerous stakeholders, companions and, most significantly, our readers have made the Excellence Awards encourage much-needed initiatives and inclusive and progressive practices amongst corporates in addition to residents.”
“This yr, our partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay has efficiently processed and evaluated a document quantity of purposes for the Excellence Awards 2022. I lengthen my honest thanks to our last spherical jury that has made doable the completion of the analysis course of for the awards this yr. We are honoured to have the National Stock Exchange, Mumbai as our Exchange Partner this yr. The first-of-its-kind gathering at the NSE will proceed this journey and construct on our imaginative and prescient of making a repository of greatest practices and essentially the most clear and rigorous mechanism for analysis of social influence within the nation,” stated Amit Upadhyay, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of The CSR Journal.
Dr Shrikant Shinde, Member of Parliament, Kalyan Constituency, Maharashtra, will be honoured with the ‘Leadership for Social Change Award’, for his contribution to social work within the state and for leaving a mark as one of the youngest leaders in India.
“Social duty is at the core constructing a reliable and peaceable society. In a rustic similar to India, the place disparities between rural and concrete India and inside these two are so stark, particular person and collective motion wants to take the lead, other than the welfare efforts and initiatives of governments. A key space in that is to entry data and bridging the hole between completely different stakeholders by bringing them on a typical platform.”
“Through Excellence Awards, The CSR Journal has been efficiently rising on this course, making a platform the place a various group of folks and organisations come collectively to perceive, study and mirror on one another’s social sector journeys. The CSR Journal has set a benchmark in bringing to the fore voices and improvements of residents and corporates that has knowledgeable and guided a number of others to study and mirror on experiences in an goal and factual method,” shared Dr Shrikant Shinde.
The CSR Journal Excellence Awards is introduced by The CSR Journal, India’s main CSR print and digital information organisation. This yr The CSR Journal Excellence Awards 2022 has partnered with Reliance Industries Limited as its Associate Partner, Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority and Maharashtra State Power Generation Company are the Associate Partners, National Stock Exchange as Exchange Partner, Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay as Knowledge Partner, Adfactors PR as PR Partner, ZEE News, ZEE Business & ZEE 24 Taas as TV Partners, Karma Art as Gift Partner, Free Press Journal as Print Partner, Public & Inshorts as Hyperlocal Information Partners, IndiaDotcom Digital Private Limited as Digital Partner, LiveClefs and On Call Entertainment as Talent Partners, Pixburg as Design Partner and Sutra as Event Partner.
