Haryana Government has planned to tap maximum Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds of corporate houses to serve the ends of social justice by furthering the cause of several of its welfare schemes.
To begin with, 21 top companies in private and public sector would be identified for this purpose.
The responsibility of establishing liaison with them will be entrusted to 21 senior officers who would be provided institutional support by the Haryana Financial Corporation. This was informed at a meeting held here on Friday under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister Manohar Lal, to coordinate and liaise with various stakeholders for maximum mobilization of CSR funds for the benefit of general public.
The CM asked the officers to list department-wise works which could be undertaken with the help of CSR funds.
The officers would also convene a meeting before January 31 with companies which are being identified. These companies would be requested to set priorities for spending their CSR funds,said he.
The money could be utilized to fund various State Government-run skill development programmes, Kanya Kosh Fund, Sweh Prerit Adarsh Gram Yojana, development of native villages and others activities, Manohar Lal said.
He said that this should help tap lot of locked-up money and channelized it into development programmes of the State Government. Apart from top companies, banks too would be requested to spend their CSR funds on various development activities in the State, added he.
Those present at the meeting included the Chief Secretary DS Dhesi, Rajesh Khullar, Principal Secretary to CM, chairman Hafed Harvinder Kalyan, MLAs Seema Trikha and Dr Kamal Gupta, Additional Chief Secretary Finance, P Raghvendra Rao among others.