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          <b> ASSOCHAM Southern region presents<br>
          Webinar on</b><br>
          <b><b>.</b>Collaborate and Co-Create a CSR ecosystem for - Challenges ahead</b><br>
          <b> 21ST MAY 2020 from 03:00PM To 05:00 PM</b><br>
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          <b>Notes</b><br>
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           <p style='text-align:justify;'>
          <b>Moderated by:</b>
           <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>. Abhishek Ranjan,</b> 
           Director - Sustainability, Brillio
          <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Speakers:</b></p>
          <p style='text-align:justify;'>
          <b>. BV Naidu, Chairman,</b> ASSOCHAM Karnataka State council and Founder & Chairman, THE
          GAIN (Global Accelerator for Innovation Network)</p>

          <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>. Vishal Bhardwaj,</b> Group Head - CSR - Dalmia Bharat Limited & CEO- Dalmia Bharat
          Foundation</p>

           <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>. Ashwini Saxena,</b> Chief Executive Officer, JSW Foundation</p>

           <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>. Srikrishna Sridhar Murthy,</b> Co-Founder and CEO, Sattva Consulting</p>

          <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>. A Narayana Prasad -</b> Associate Professor and OSD to Department of Collegiate and Technical</p>

           <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Uma S Nair </b>- Welcomed the panellists and the participants and partners to the program.</p>

           <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>BV Naidu</b> - Welcomed all participating in this very important topic of co-creating the CSR ecosystem
          as you all know it is indeed of need and we need to strengthen the overall ecosystem and processes in
          our country to be more effective so I think the panel here was an excellent panel and Abhishek Ranjan
          from Brillio in fact when I wanted to start this CSR as one of the council's under the ASSOCHAM, the my
          first meeting with Abhishek and he has the complete knowledge to the CSR and its policies and the
          processes etc. He pulled in the right expert\&apos;s people like Vishal Bharadwaj, Ashwini Saxena, Krishna
          Murthy, Deepak Prabhu and Narayana Prasad of DCTE.</p>
         
           <p style='text-align:justify;'>
           Bring all the people together to discuss on this important you know the topic of the CSR and I told him
          only three things appreciate there are three important<br>

          1. Can we create a CSR index for Karnataka?<br>
          2. NGO effective rating of the implementing of CSR activities<br>
          3. Complied report</br>
          <p style='text-align:justify;'>
          He said, looks at the more from the economic point of view as you all know Karnataka GDP is 250 billion
          dollars with a per capita income of around 3000 dollars but for this COVID, we have been growing much
          more than 8 percent and we even touch their own 11 percent couple of years back and our exports are
          around sixty eight billion dollars out of which IT alone is a 50 billion dollars and our services industry
          contribution is 68 percent whereas the industry and manufacturing is 23 percent and agriculture is 7.8
          percent but still our per capita is not spread to the rural areas it is concentrated in urban areas Bangalore 
          alone contributes to more than 50% of the GDP how do we how can we make our rural below the poverty
          line and below the bottom of the pyramid citizens more effective and contribute and you'll also become
          part of our GDP the only way that can be done is either through the government or through the CSR
          programs.</p>

          <p style='text-align:justify;'>
          <b>Abhishek Ranjan </b>- Thanked the Chairman for setting the context for the webinar and thanked
          ASSOCHAM and for hosting this online summit to share the State perspectives about the CSR Ecosystem.
          it's time for action we cannot wait for another few weeks or months before we start actually doing
          something and the times of need. I think we need to be creative and more innovative and that's what the
          mandate was then how the collaboration platform for CSR plus NGO can be created through the switch
          and cannot occur umbrella that was the first initiative we have taken.</p>

          <p style='text-align:justify;'>
          I think this is our first attempt to do that or the second thing we are looking at this time when NGOs, if
          you remember the first week of COVID 19 the government, the media story and only when you can
          probably remember is the nonprofits NGOs who are on the ground helping people they only and of course
          the frontline, medical and police. I think this is time for us as a community to help induce this is a time
          when none of lot of challenges we are going to take that we are also looking at CSR in takes in a long term.
          We also have to help us with all the impact you know investment happening in an article and what's the
          way forward and under third the last piece what we want the work is a strong collaboration with
          government so that you know we can all work towards the initiatives and also kind of help demonstrate
          to them, these are some of the programs we have thought, we will discuss it more in the collaboration at
          the stage when we come to the panel discussion.</p>

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           <b>A Narayana Prasad </b>- Thanked the ASSOCHAM for the webinar and shared the Government Colleges
          viewpoints to the participants. He said nearly 430 first grade colleges nearly 3 to 4 lakh students from
          B.Sc. BCA, BBM, B.Com and nearly 100 polytechnic colleges are having the PG courses nearly more than 1
          lakh students are being graduated every year from the Karnataka Government colleges.</p>

         <p style='text-align:justify;'>
          He said that Help Educate- A DCTE Corporate Outreach program has been initiated to collaborate with
          Industry partners with the objectives of i) E2E Education to Employment to train & equip students to
          be employable; ii) use of Technology in Education; iii) Assessing & Improvising Teaching & Learning; iv)
          conducting Faculty Development Programs; v) designing curriculum that addresses Industry needs and vi)
          to fill Infrastructure & Equipment gaps in Government Higher Education Institutions.</p>

          <p style='text-align:justify;'>
          We call upon the Corporates in Karnataka to take part in this initiative & supplement the DCTE’s efforts
          to bring about Transformational Changes in Higher Education in Karnataka.</p>

         <p style='text-align:justify;'>
         <b>Ashwini Saxena</b> - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for the webinar and shared the CSR viewpoints to the
          participants. It's always a pleasure to you know speak when Abhishek is around because he brings in a lot
          of passion and a lot of insight. I think this covert challenge has posed a many unprecedented challenge
          none of us exactly you know what does it entail and you know how do we handle this situation how would 
          we been handling the aftermath of this whole challenge. I think that's where you know the creative juices
          and the innovativeness of all of us put together as the constituents of the society is going to become more
          and more important.</p>

        <p style='text-align:justify;'>
        The whole idea of collaborating for the sake of the communities becomes a very relevant and I would say
          important topic. I'm not going to numbers as a responsible corporate. I think it's all here for people to
          witness with all humility we've been trying to are to a bit reaching out to communities in the best ways
          possible. We are a small little part in the entire system and therefore the more the better and as much as
          we can collaborate. I think it is going to add value the overall value would be increased then we will be
          worth discussing and contemplating where exactly do we stand today if I if I look from the concept. I think
          if we look around at this moment planet has taken care of itself because thanks to the lockdown.</p>

           <p style='text-align:justify;'>
           <b>Vishal Bhardwaj</b> - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for the webinar and shared the CSR viewpoints to the
          participants. In fact, in addition to that you know since we've since we make ethanol had a sugar mills, we
          have also started to manufacture sanitizer in our class to assist the government. As much as we put in
          these challenging times as concerned, we of course stop destruction reverse migration that is happening
          and pressure that these communities were facing so response to that industry. We also started to supply
          rations and medicines to communities around us we also do care of.</p>

           <p style='text-align:justify;'>
           <b>Srikrishna Sridhar Murthy</b> - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for the webinar and shared the CSR viewpoints
          to the participants. A field we won't be around such passionate professionals in the CSR ecosystem. We
          are seeing the CSR pre-covid itself was predominantly you know focused on fewer issues and fewer
          geographies you know if you look at Karnataka itself between Bengaluru Urban and Bengaluru rural is
          about 30 percent of CSR was spent but others 50 60 was not clearly reported but the smaller districts but
          you know very little of the CSR money coming into in the State.</p>

          <p style='text-align:justify;'>
          Over the past four years the CSR spend just over 5,000 crores and literally less than 1% has gone to one
          of these districts in any form at all. The second thing is the issues also you know interestingly Karnataka is
          one state where education obviously across the country had been a big priority of it and you know
          environment sustainability surprisingly comes second in Karnataka and healthcare comes third which is
          very different from how its kind of spent in other parts of the you know ecosystem. I think to have an
          approach where be a lot more inclusive.</p>
            