{"id":315554,"date":"2024-11-08T18:53:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T13:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=315554"},"modified":"2024-11-14T18:36:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T13:06:38","slug":"are-csr-contributions-to-agriculture-properly-tracked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/are-csr-contributions-to-agriculture-properly-tracked\/","title":{"rendered":"Are CSR contributions to agriculture properly tracked?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> <em>The National Corporate Social Responsibility Portal data, from 2014 to 2023, shows that Rs 1.84 lakh crore of CSR funds were disbursed. As the CSR contributions are increasing, there is a need to focus on how they can help the agricultural sector.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1. Corporate Social Responsibility refers to the ethical practice by the corporates to take responsibility for the social, environmental, and economic impacts of their operations.<\/p>\n<p>2. In 2014, India became the first country in the world to legally mandate corporate social responsibility. Section 135 of the Companies Act 2013 provides for rules and regulations governing the CSR.<\/p>\n<p>3. CSR provisions apply to companies that meet the following criteria: A) Net worth of Rs 500 crore or more B) Annual turnover of Rs 1000 crore or more C) Net profit of Rs 5 crore or more.<\/p>\n<p>4. These companies are required to spend at least 2% of their average net profit over the previous three years on CSR activities.<\/p>\n<p>5. There is a need for CSR contributions to agriculture as it employs nearly 47% of the population and contributes 16.73% to India\u2019s GDP.<\/p>\n<p>6. CSR activities contribute to support the capital requirements and infrastructural needs of Indian agriculture. These include establishing grain banks, farmer schools, water conservation projects etc.<\/p>\n<p>7. However, a major obstacle hindering CSR\u2019s potential in agriculture is that current reporting mechanisms have little to no emphasis on agriculture related CSR initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The National Corporate Social Responsibility Portal data, from 2014 to 2023, shows that Rs 1.84 lakh crore of CSR funds were disbursed. As the CSR contributions are increasing, there is a need to focus on how they can help the agricultural sector. 1. Corporate Social Responsibility refers to the ethical practice by the corporates&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/are-csr-contributions-to-agriculture-properly-tracked\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are CSR contributions to agriculture properly tracked?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12039],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knolls","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}