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A two-day meet on corporate social responsibility (CSR) started at Jamshedpur Women’s College on Friday.
“This is for the first time in India that a college has organised a seminar on CSR,” said principal Shukla Mohanty at her inaugural address.
Sponsored by University Grants Commission, New Delhi, the event hosted by the cradle’s commerce faculty drew 20 delegates from Jamshedpur, Ranchi, Patna, Bhubaneswar and Varanasi as well as Tata Steel’s CSR officials, including vice-president (corporate affairs) Sanjiv Paul.
“With Tata Steel, CSR has been an integral idea since its inception a century ago, which transformed Sakchi village into Jamshedpur,” said Paul.
Tata L. Raghuram, XLRI faculty, Keka Roy, of Max New York Life advisor, were among other speakers.
Day One also saw the release of a souvenir and a book.
“CSR is an ever-developing term and we in Jamshedpur have witnessed what Tata Steel has done for social welfare. Students who are on the threshold of getting jobs in corporate houses should have in-built values of work beyond profit making,” principal Mohanty said regarding why the meet was so important for the cradle.
Mohanty added that they did their bit, too.
“UGC has started pumping in funds into colleges for development work on campus and beyond as part of its extension services. Our college received a corpus of Rs 1 lakh for this in 2011-12. We spent the sum on installing solar lights in the hostel on campus as well as at Sarna sthal, a place of worship for tribals in Karandih,” she said.
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