Gujarat set up CSR Authority
Ahmedabad. The Gujarat government has been hardselling the state as an ideal industrial investment destination while simultaneously drawing allegations that the same is at the expense of human development index. It is now out to prove it can go beyond.
The government has now set up the Gujarat Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Authority, the only one from a state government in the country, to create an exclusive agency to channelise contributions to finance projects like construction of toilets and tackling malnutrition, besides several other themes.
"It is Chief Minister Anandiben Patel`s idea, which has been spruced up by the official machinery," Maheshwar Sahu, who is a retired IAS officer and the chairman of the CSR Authority created in April, told Mail Today.
"We have created this authority to facilitate companies to channelise their mandatory two per cent earnings for social infrastructure." He says there are 14,000 companies, including some 13,500 forming the small and medium scale industrial units, which are supposed to park funds under CSR activities. India to day
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