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Ensuring Equitable Access to Clean Drinking Water in Water-Stressed Regions

For CSR-led initiatives, this becomes particularly important as impact assessment increasingly moves beyond infrastructure delivery toward measurable and sustainable outcomes.

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Water Stewardship: Why Businesses Must Go Beyond Conservation

Water stewardship should minimise water use and cut down on waste, including leakage. Additionally, there are actions like enhancing catchment areas, fortifying embankments, and desilting.

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From Responsibility to Impact: How Indian Industry Can Accelerate the Circular Economy

When it comes to circularity in India, the focus is often on downstream solutions such as collection drives, recycling commitments, and consumer awareness campaigns, etc.

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How Jubilant Ingrevia’s Sustainability Initiatives are Powering High Impact Change

As part of Jubilant Ingrevia’s Operational Excellence measures, Six Sigma methodologies have been deployed under the Surge, Lean and Business Excellence programmes.

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How skill development, health camps & microloans are reshaping the lives of differently abled couple

A 2022 International Finance Corporation (IFC) study estimates that improving accessibility and inclusion could unlock up to $1 trillion in global GDP annually.

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Newgen CSR: Giving Wings to Dreams, Driving Opportunity through Belief for Individuals & Communities

To date, more than 130 students have received this support, many emerging as steady role models within their communities.

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Oratrics’ CSR Efforts Build Confidence and Global Exposure for Students in Uttar Pradesh

Oratrics has developed a programme that includes communication activities developed for the classroom and implemented as part of the school’s day-to-day operations.

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Skilling as a Catalyst for Change: Creating Stronger Healthcare Workforces through Training

CSR in skilling is already strong. The next leap is to connect education CSR to job-linked, progression-based healthcare workforce development.

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Aayom’s Campaign Shatters India’s Period Taboo

This extraordinary effort earned recognition from the India Book of Records, validating a movement that began humbly in small villages years ago.

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How Community-Based Inclusive Development Works for the Inclusion of Women & Girls with Disabilities

When girls with disabilities miss out on education, it affects their entire life, from economic security and health to personal safety, autonomy, and sense of self-worth.

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The Forest That Heals: How Miyawaki Greens Are Making India’s Cities Cleaner and Greener

The benefits of the Miyawaki urban forests go beyond absorbing carbon alone. These natural carbon "sinks" are also capable of filtering pollutants out of the air and generating clean oxygen to enhance air quality.

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How Studds Accessories is Transforming the Lives of Underprivileged Communities via its CSR Programs

To boost sustainability and employment, composting systems were installed while encouraging organic farming and training villagers in recycling practices to create livelihood opportunities.

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Water, Soil and Scale: Driving Sustainable Impact in Agri-Water Ecosystems

The discussion opened with the acknowledgement that India’s agricultural future depends on how effectively its water and soil resources are managed in tandem.

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Co-Creating Care: CSR and Government Synergies for Better Public Health

The panelists collectively reinforced that healthcare interventions create sustainable change only when they are designed to strengthen public systems rather than replace or parallel them.

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The Loneliness Epidemic: Each Person an Island

Jean Twenge and Jonathan Haidt in a study analyzed responses of thousands of 15- year- old across 37 participating countries and stated that ‘through 2012, reports of feeling lonely and friendless at school increased in all regions except for Asia’!

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How Digital Revolution Is Transforming Disability Inclusion in India's CSR and Development Models

Many NGOs, such as Enable India, NASSCOM Foundation, and Narayan Seva Sansthan, operate at the intersection of community trust and technological innovation.

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India’s First Carbon-Negative Dairy is Rewriting the Rules of the Sector

At its Malanpur plant alone, a 1.5 MWh rooftop solar system produces more than 2 million kWh per year, cutting electricity costs by over 60% and avoiding 2,800 tonnes of CO₂ emissions annually. T

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Bringing Legacy to Life: How a 100-Year-Old Cooperative gave a 131-Year-Old School a Second Chance

The ULCCS Centenary LP School is only the beginning. Plans are already underway to expand it to include upper primary, high school, and higher secondary levels

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Clean Water is a Human Right: Innovating for Access and Affordability in India

All these developments go hand-in-hand with the increased need for trustworthy, easy-to-use, and affordable purification systems, especially in rural settings.

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Why Green Practices in the Chemical Industry are Imperative to Address Sustainability Issues

While most entities have shifted partially or wholly to sustainable practices, more institutional measures are required to accelerate the pace of transition. In context, green finance can play a major role. However, green finance comprises barely 25%

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Beyond Business: How AGI Greenpac is Empowering Communities Through Sustainability-Led CSR

The results speak volumes about the programme's effectiveness: an average income growth of 40% per farmer, with some crops like watermelon generating returns as high as 100% in just three months.