India’s 1st monthly Magazine on CSR FEBRUARY 2019 VOLUME-7 ISSUE-10 `100/- www.csrvision.in Promoting Responsibility for Sustainability CSR & CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY CORPORATE AccOUNTABILITY INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH GUEST COLUMN BHARTRUHARI MAHTAB DR. SRIKANT SHARMA Member of the MBBS, MD 16th Loksabha of India SOCIAL VIGILANCE Corporate Accountability through SocialFEBRUARY Vigilance2019 NEW DELHI 1 2 NEW DELHI FEBRUARY 2019 From the Desk of Editor-in-Chief Dear Readers, farmers for providing relief from interest. Also addressing the concerns of unorgainsed sector involving a large vote bank of Greetings for Vasant Panchami! street vendors etc. by providing them pension, after 60 years of This month of Feb 2019 is respected to be recorded in age through a scheme called Pradhan Mantri Shramjogi maan history of India not only for the coveted 2019 Loksabha/ dhan giving Rs. 3000 per month. National election expected to confirm or reject Narendra Modi Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sammannidhi providing pension to as the Prime Minister of India even after establishing himself landless labour and farmers and agricultural labour providing as visionary leader in global arena seems to be challenging the cash Rs. 3000, then addressing the Indian Middle class the position of global leaders like President of America Mr. Trump, largest influencing segment of Indian society. The middle class Prime Minister or Russia, Mr. Putin and President of China Xi tax payer who waiting for basic exemption which has been done Jinping. The combination of opposition parties in India is afraid in this budget appeasing the middle class intelligencia creating of their political survival due to the gigantic rise of Narendra ripples of happiness and appeasing a major voter segment Modi as the dominant political force who single handedly including the first time voters. In addition to above schemes created a political wave named as Modi wave which swept BJP like Ayushaman Bharat providing health insurance to the into power in central Govt. with a massive majority; creating an needy people and the Swachh Bharat mission which has been unprecedented electoral history in 2014. supported under the budget apart from increasing allocation for However the united efforts of all political parties has been MGNREGA. successful in damaging or creating a dent in the popularity of All the above mentioned schemes clearly signifies the Modi Govt. and snatching away two states of northern India like strategic intent of Modi Govt. to leave no stone unturned in MP and Rajasthan, this forced PM Modi to make all out effort appeasing all electoral segments and ensure victory in 2019 to regain his lost grounds. As a responsible politician he learnt national election and give a blow to the planned opposition unity from the history and took the “corrective” initiatives before 2019 in the name of MahagatBandhan. However the success efforts national election. Modi Govt. started with post electoral defeat of the Modi Govt. will be tested during the electoral results of in MP and Rajasthan through addressing the concerns of upper 2019 elections. caste hindus who had been aggrieved due to the enactment of Looking at the scenario with a critical eye for ensuring and SC/ST law protecting SC/STs, for appeasing SC/STs as a major growth in Indian economy and global image of India, Modi Govt. vote bank to correct the situation. Modi Govt. enacted laws for initiated a harsh measures including demonetization, GST etc. providing reservation in educational institutions and jobs for in the first three years of Govt. with a long term strategic vision economically backward population for all communities including for progress, disappointing few sections of voters. Therefore the hindu, muslim, sikh etc. because of the potential electoral measures taken after the loss of Rajasthan and MP to regain the fallout all opposition parties had to vote for the 10% reservation lost ground is justified to ensure the continuity of the initiatives for economically backward upper class. for the long term and sustained growth of India. Next came the filing of petition in the Supreme Court by This issue also, covers a lead story on CSR and Corporate the Modi Govt. for refunding the land in Ayodhaya which is Accountability. This issue covers the interview of Bhartuhari undisputed and can open up the way for construction of Ram Mahtab, Member of the 16th Lok Sabha of India and covers temple with significant electoral impact next in the interim the Guest Column of Dr. Srikant Sharma, MD, MBBS on Winter budget, the last budget of Modi Govt. which was announced on Diseases. 1st Feb in Loksabha which has come out with much awaited Happy Reading. Be responsible and promote responsibility provisions of addressing the interest of almost all major electoral around you. Please write to me your opinions and suggestions. segments making it a historic pre-election budget for e.g. to You may also log on to www.csrvision.in, our portal which is address the major aggrieved segment of the farmers, damaging loaded with plethora of information. the electoral performance of BJP in state elections. This budget came up with an ideal scheme called income support transfer to reach about 12 crore farmers. In addition to income support transfers scheme of Rs. 6000 per farmer - per hector – per year, Prof. Ranjan Mohapatra the Govt. has also launched few other schemes to appease the [email protected] FEBRUARY 2019 NEW DELHI 3 SOCIETY WATCH Is Supreme Court expected to interpret Indian constitution respecting the national sentiments ? 4 NEW DELHI FEBRUARY 2019 CSR VISION Promoting Responsibility for Sustainability THOUGHT OF THE MONTH Editor-in-Chief Prof. Ranjan Mohapatra “Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn Senior Sub-Editor out the pain.” Gaurav Gupta — Joseph Campbell Sub-Editor Rakesh Kumar Yadav Correspondents Jagnyadutta Mohanty Hemant Rout Sushant Kr. Raut CONTENT Special Correspondents Mukarram Mohammed (Dubai) Sangeeta Chaudhary Regional Director’s S.P.Singh, Jharkhand B.C. Kiran, Karnataka Deepak Pandya, Vadodara Photography Tekendra Adhikari Marketing Dr. K. 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FEBRUARY 2019 NEW DELHI 5 INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH BHARTRUHARI MAHTAB Member of the 16th Loksabha of India Bhartruhari Mahtab (born 8 September 1957) is an Indian politician. He is a member of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) political party. He was elected to the 12th Lok Sabha in 1998 from Cuttack constituency in Odisha. He was re- elected to the Lok Sabha in 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2014 from the same constituency. He received the outstanding parliamentarian award 2017. He is also Do you believe that quality of citizens influence the Q quality of a nation? the recipient of Sansad Ratna Award That’s very true, it is the endeavour of the citizens itself A that makes the nation great and it is by the citizenry 2017 and 2018 for his outstanding only the nation is built. performance in ‘Debates’. He has several What role media can play in building a responsible books published on his name some Q society? them are ChalishVarsharGanatantra, A responsible media can only play by educating the A society by ventilating different types of opinion in the Dharma, Darshan, Drustikon etc…He has society and also to create an atmosphere of awareness. organised several literary and cultural What is your assessment about the state of meetings at Cuttack, Bhubaneswar, Q responsibility of the common man towards the society in the country? Sambalpur through PrajatantraPrachar A common man has a robust common sense, it is only Samiti, Bisuv Milan and Basant Milan, A through their common sense they can make a society prosper and it is the selflessness of the common man which Indira Gandhi Memorial Library, actually determines the growth of the society. In this modern age that type of responsibility is lacking to a very great Bhubaneswar and Subhadra Mahtab extent. People have become more self-centred and it is the Library, Puri. He loves to read, write degradation of morality which has played a great role and the manner in which our education system has developed in last and travel.