Corporate Social Responsibility at BIMTECH
Philosophy
The ethos of social responsibility at the Birla Institute of Management
Technology (BIMTECH) is no different from the value system of the House of the
Birlas, one of the oldest and the most respected industrialists in India. The
Institute is modern and progressive in its outlook but retains its deep
commitment to simplicity, respect, sensitivity and care for others and zeal to
contribute positively to the progress of society.
The Institute exercises the tenets of ethics in its interactions and engagements
with its various stakeholders.
Students and Education
BIMTECH is committed to the UN Principles of Responsible Management
Education and has a value driven approach with all its stakeholders. It
cherishes its relationship with various NGOs both formed by its alumni as well as
external organizations. In keeping with its commitment, it strives to create
educational frameworks, materials, processes and environments that enable
effective learning experiences for responsible leadership.
To begin with the academic curriculum has core as well as elective modules
emphasising responsible Business in society. An integrated module comprising of
Business Ethics, Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility is
offered as a compulsory module to all students across all programmes. Students
are sensitised with the concepts of Social Entrepreneurship and provisions of
support and handholding to assist ones who might be enthused and the ones
who are keen on becoming entrepreneurs are present.
Several forums where students can engage in community development projects,
help generate awareness with respect to sustainability principles or promote
responsible student behaviour are supported and facilitated by the Institute.
Community outreach programmes by students: Ranganathan Society, an
NGO, working towards opening libraries in secondary schools in key villages
across India is supported by the students at BIMTECH.As part of this support
which is financial as well in kind, students have helped the NGO in setting up a
library for the prison inmates of the ‘Dasna Jail’ (prison) in the Ghaziabad district
of Uttar Pradesh. The students also engage the inmates by holding learning and
development workshops for the jail inmates and their children (residing with the
female jail inmates) on their premises.
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Students, Faculty and Staff members of BIMTECH voluntarily contribute books,
stationery, clothes, furniture, etc. to the children at ‘Jatan’ , an NGO founded by
BIMTECH alumni, while each BIMTECH faculty supports the education of one
child here with an annual contribution from their salary.
Forums: United Friends of Earth and Sustainable Development Forum
wherein activities like The Social Entrepreneur, ‘Greenathon’, observance of the
Earth Hour, etc are taken up by groups of students having selected these forums
as part of their extracurricular activities. ‘BIMTECH Paathshaala’, is a student
driven initiative which provides academic support to illiterate and the
semiliterate work force engaged in housekeeping, catering and other allied
services on the Institute’s campus. The students have also made their mark in
the United Nations Online Volunteer Programme administered by United
Nation Development Program (UNDP) and Goodness and Mercy Missions
(GMM).
Research: The students regularly contribute papers in conferences. One of the
students won the coveted ‘Prudential Scholarship’ (2012) to pursue Global
Citizens Programme in the United States
Faculty, Research, Partnerships and Dialogue
Faculty engage in conceptual and empirical research about the role, dynamics,
and impact of corporations in the creation of sustainable social, environmental
and economic value and they are able to share it with their fraternity and
publics.
Partnerships and Dialogue: In order to expand BIMTECH’s knowledge of the
challenges faced by the corporate managers in meeting social and environmental
responsibilities and to explore jointly effective approaches to meeting these
challenges, BIMTECH has several partnerships and forums for dialogue and
debate among educators, business, government, consumers, media, civil society
organizations, and other interested groups and stakeholders on critical issues
related to global social responsibility and sustainability.
Partnership with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and
Industry (FICCI): The expertise of BIMTECH in the area of CSR has been
recognised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
(FICCI) where the CSR wing of the Institute has partnered with FICCI in
conducting their on-site assessments of CSR initiatives by Indian Corporate for
Businessworld- FICCI Annual CSR Awards.
Partnership with Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA): The Indian
Government’s initiative under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs IICA is a think
tank for CSR and is currently in the process of launching an IICA certified CSR
professional Programme. In this regard, the CSR Lead at BIMTECH was invited
for partnering in the development of course design and content for the
programme.
Partnership with Global Reporting Initiative (GRI): The Institute supports
the goals and objectives of GRI as its organisational Stakeholder and support
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each other as agreed upon in an MoU in learning, development, training and
research activities.
Partnership with Public and Private Sector Corporations: The faculty from
the CSR and Sustainable Development programme are also regularly invited by
the private and public sector corporations to deliver management development
programmes and training programmes for their executives. MoUs with large
scale corporations Steel Authority of India (SAIL), National Thermal Power
Corporation (NTPC), Oil and Gas Corporation (ONGC), Indian Farmers Fertilisers
Cooperative (IFFCO) facilitate such joint efforts.
Partnership with “Grameen Creative Lab”: in the area of Social Business,
BIMTECH has collaborated with “Grameen Creative Lab”, an initiative by the
Noble Laureate Prof. Mohammed Yunus from Bangladesh
Facilitating Dialogue and debate among educators, business, government,
consumers, media, civil society organizations, and other interested groups and
stakeholders on critical issues related to global social responsibility and
sustainability:
Partnership with Economic Times (ET): BIMTECH –ET (Economic Times)
Annual Global CSR Conference, was founded in 2010 and is a platform where
global thought leaders participate and bring on board relevant, contemporary as
well as futuristic issues related to Business and Society. Two global level
conferences have been organized till date. The first was “CSR as a strategy for
Inclusive Development” (organised with Germany as a ‘country’ partner) and the
second was CSR and Transparency, organised in collaboration with Global
Reporting partnership.
Partnership with Business Community Foundation, India, International
Business Leaders Forum (U.K) and Emergent Ventures: The leading NGOs
of India and UK respectively share and support each other in various knowledge
dissemination endeavours and other events .Along with Emergent Ventures, an
internally acclaimed carbon advisory firm in India, the Institute jointly organised
a two day workshop on “Green Business” in 2009.The programme elucidated
contemporary issues like climate change, carbon credits, energy efficiency, clean
technologies etc
Partnership with All India Management Association (AIMA), New Delhi:
The partnership saw BIMTECH extending AIMA knowledge and organising
support in the Business-Responsibility Summit, a well acknowledged platform in
the domain of Corporate Social Responsibility in the year 2008.
Network Partnerships: It works along with and contributes to the efforts of
some of the most reputed organizations in the domain such as Global Reporting
Initiative, International Business Leaders Forum(UK), CSR Asia(Hong Kong),
Business and Community Foundation(India),Global Compact Society ,India and
the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs(IICA, Ministry of Corporate Affairs
,Govt.of India)
Submitted by:
Vineeta Dutta Roy, Ph.D, Associate Prof. and Lead CSR
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