NITIE, Mumbai Plays Host to Another Samiksha

NITIE, Mumbai Plays Host to Another Samiksha
Theme: "Corporate Social Responsibility: A Reality or an Illusion"

Corporate Social Responsibility is rarely a topic of discussion in any B-school, unless you are in National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai. Keeping their tradition of taking up unusual but highly relevant topics, the students of Industrial Safety and Environmental Management (ISEM) at NITIE organized a panel discussion on CSR.

The discussion titled "Corporate Social Responsibility: A Reality or an Illusion" had a panel graced by eminent speakers like Mr. Debi Goenka (Bombay Environment Action Group), Mr. Krishna Das (VP-HR, Mahindra & Mahindra), Mr. Subhash Baxi (Corporate Manager-SHE-Greater Asia Region, Kodak), Mrs. Seema Unnikrishan (Professor Environment Management, NITIE).

The event was divided into two parts, a session of talks by the panel members and a discussion among the panelists. Prof. H. V. Bhasin, Dean (Programs and Consultancy) at NITIE, moderated the panel discussion in a very efficient manner, especially with the audience participating enthusiastically in it.

Professor Unnikrishnan began the event by giving an academician's perspective about CSR as a whole and how things fit into the scheme of sustainable business model. She introduced many current CSR initiatives in India detailing how the community is benefiting from such activities.

Now that the groundwork had been laid, Mr. Das followed by sharing his 25+ years of field experience. He explained how Indian industry has pursued the goals of CSR in the past and how things are slowly changing and more and more formal procedures are being brought in. Mr. Das argued that it has become important for companies to have such initiatives, especially if the Indian legal system brings such activities under the purview of law in the near future, as is done in the United States.

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Contributed by -
Tanveer Singh,
PGDISEM,
NITIE, Mumbai.

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