Implications of Corporate Social Responsibility in Odisha a study of national aluminium company limited

Abstract

Citizens experience in independent India in the last seventy (70) years reveals that newlinemost often the social and economic initiatives undertaken are being entirely carried newlineout either by the State or by the Central Government or may be both with its newlinemultiple facet objectives. However, problems like Population explosion, Poverty, newlineCorruption, Pollution, Illiteracy, unemployment, issues related to Child labour, newlineMalnutrition, Drinking Water crisis, Poor hygiene, and improper sanitation facilities newlineamong various problems continue to plague India today. These problems keep newlinebothering its citizens particularly the people living under Below Poverty Line (BPL), newlineand the Above Poverty Line (APL) particularly India s Middle Class with a population newlineof about 267 million in 2016, according to the National Council of Applied newlineEconomic Research (NCAER) data. Common people face many difficulties on an newlineeveryday basis even though the plans and policies are in place. The benefits do not newlinereach the masses because of Red Tapism among bureaucratic decision-making newlineacross the country, which has been framed by the present academic research which newlinehas an opinion that possibly all these problems and many other societal and newlinesocioeconomic issues can be addressed fully with an integration of Corporate Social newlineResponsibility (CSR)initiatives by both Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE s)and newlinePrivate Sector Companies, or in a Public Private Partnership mode (PPP Mode)for a newlinehealthy, educated, prosperous, happy and a harmonic society. Despite the fact that newlineCorporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is not a substitute or alternative for Public newline