Chief Minister Raghubar Das has formed a Corporate Social responsibility (CSR) Council in order to ensure that the State gets maximum benefits from the CSR funds of public and private enterprises functional in Jharkhand.
Five private companies and five Public Sector Enterprises have been nominated in the Jharkhand CSR Council. The five private companies include Tata Steel, Jindal Steel and Power limited, Usha Martin limited, Hindalco Industries limited and Rungta Mines limited; while the public sector enterprises include CCl, NTPC, SAIl, DVC and BCCl. Apart from this, Electrosteel limited and UCIl Jadugoda will be called in meetings as special invitees.
The first meeting of the JCSRC has been called on May 8. The department of Industries has been instructed to seek CSR related representations from all companies before the meeting.
The JFCSR has been formed with an aim to ensure that the interests of local population are kept on priority and the funds spent on CSR provide maximum benefit to the targeted population.