A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) would be signed between Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA) and Haryana Government to establish a CSR project management unit in the state.
“The unit will help facilitating corporates in making their CSR policies, connecting corporate to the development needs, monitoring and evaluation of CSR projects and project based capacity building,” said a spokesman of Haryana Government.
He said that the MoU will be signed at Haryana’s first ever Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Summit in Gurugram on November 12 to be inaugurated by Chief Minister Manohar Lal.
Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs and KPMG would be the knowledge Partners for CSR Summit.
As many as 600 guests from the corporate world would be invited to take part in the Summit.
The CSR Project Management Unit would be set up for apt utilization of CSR funds for various operational projects in different districts and for implementation of policies of the Government departments, the spokesman said.
During the Summit, besides launching the web portal of CSR Authority, 16 Haryana CSR Awards would also be conferred on the best performing organizations.
The spokesperson said that the nominations procedure for these Haryana CSR Awards would start from October 20 and would continue till October 31.
He said that the State Government has decided to organize this CSR Summit for utilization of CSR funds in an appropriate way for the development of Haryana and implementation of Government policies.
Gurugram being the hub of multinational companies, a CSR window system has been created to provide single point of contact for these multinational companies. After setting up this CSR window, work on projects worth Rs 200 crore has been done, the spokesman said.
After the start of this CSR web portal, all the companies would be able to apply for CSR online and the project management unit would be able to do follow up timely. After applying on website, the companies would be given approval and NOC within 15 days.
Thus after launching of this website, all the procedures would be online and would be completed as per the fixed date, he added.