Somewhere in rural India right now, a daily wage laborer is working under the sun at 46 degrees. A child in a government school is sitting in a classroom with no fan and no water. An elderly woman is walking two kilometers to fetch drinking water from a hand pump that is running dry. This is not a paragraph from a disaster report. This is today. This is happening while you read this.

April 22 is around the corner. The best Earth Day activities are planned, not improvised. If you want an Earth Day program that your employees remember and your stakeholders respect let us help.

You approved the proposal. You released the funds. The NGO sent you a progress report with nice photos. But how do you know what is actually happening on the ground? Site visits are the only way to verify that your CSR money is creating real impact. Skip them, and you risk funding incomplete projects, inflated beneficiary numbers, or worse outright fraud.

If you are a CSR manager or company secretary, you already know the stress that comes with the annual reporting season. Filing the CSR annual report is mandatory for every company that falls under Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013. Get it wrong, and you risk penalties, board-level questions, and reputational damage.

There is a statistic that stops most people when they hear it for the first time. Twenty three percent of girls in India drop out of school after their first period. Not because they lost interest in education. Not because their families stopped valuing it. But because they did not have access to sanitary products, their school did not have proper toilet facilities, and the combination of shame, discomfort, and logistical impossibility made continuing to attend school feel u

Exams are done. The relief is real. And suddenly there are two or three months of unstructured time ahead with no lectures, no deadlines, and no fixed schedule to follow.

India made a promise to the world in 2015. Along with 192 other nations it committed to achieving 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Goals covering everything from ending poverty and ensuring clean water to building sustainable cities, protecting life on land and below water, and taking urgent action on climate change. 2030 is not far away. And the honest assessment of where India stands on its SDG commitments is that progress is real but uneven, and in several critica

Summer in India is not just uncomfortable. For millions of people across the country it is genuinely dangerous. While most people reading this are managing the heat with air conditioning, cold water from the refrigerator, and the ability to stay indoors during the hottest hours of the day, there are communities across India for whom none of those options exist. Daily wage workers who must be outside by seven in the morning. Children who walk to school on roads that are alread

India's cities are getting hotter. Every summer the headlines confirm what residents already know from experience. Urban temperatures are rising, green cover is shrinking, and the concrete surfaces that now dominate most Indian cities are absorbing and radiating heat in ways that make daily life measurably more uncomfortable and measurably more unhealthy.

If you have ever been part of a corporate CSR planning conversation in India, you have probably heard some version of this: "Let us do something around the end of the financial year" or "Can we plan something before the annual report deadline?" These conversations happen in boardrooms and HR cabins across the country every year, and they almost always produce the same result. A rushed activity, planned in weeks instead of months, executed under pressure, and documented just e

Every monsoon season in India, thousands of tree plantation drives happen across the country. Corporate teams show up on a Saturday morning, dig small holes, drop in saplings, take a group photograph, and head home feeling good. Municipal bodies announce ambitious targets. Schools organize plantation days. Social media fills up with green-tinged posts about saving the planet. And then, quietly, most of those trees die.

India has become a global leader in mandating corporate social responsibility. Since 2014, the country has required eligible companies to spend at least two percent of their average net profits on social and environmental initiatives. Over a decade later, the results are staggering. Corporate India has collectively spent over 1.84 lakh crore rupees on CSR activities, transforming sectors like education, healthcare, rural development, and environmental sustainability.

India is home to the largest network of Self Help Groups in the world. With over 90 lakh SHGs connected to more than 10 crore women households, these groups have transformed the lives of millions of families across the country. If you are thinking about starting a Self Help Group in your village or community, this guide will walk you through everything you need to know.

Education in India is undergoing a massive transformation. The National Education Policy 2020 has shifted the focus from rote memorization to experiential learning, critical thinking, and holistic development. At the heart of this change lies a simple but powerful idea. Students learn best when they experience the real world, not just read about it in textbooks. This is where volunteering enters the picture.

The landscape of Corporate Social Responsibility in India is undergoing a significant transformation. Companies are moving beyond token gestures and embracing strategic, impact driven approaches that create real change in communities. The National CSR Summit 2026, held in New Delhi on March 16 and 17, brought together policymakers, corporate leaders, development practitioners, and multilateral agencies to discuss the future of CSR in India.

India is losing its lakes at an alarming rate. A study by the World Resources Institute found that urban blue cover in major Indian cities has decreased by an average of 15 percent between 2000 and 2015. While cities expanded their built up areas, their lakes, ponds and wetlands slowly disappeared. This is not just an environmental issue. It is a community crisis that affects drinking water, flood management, local livelihoods and the overall quality of urban life.

Every April, India's CSR committees sit down with the same question. Where should we spend this year? Environment or education. Trees or textbooks. Carbon or classrooms. It sounds like a values question. It is actually a strategy question and most Indian companies are answering it without nearly enough data. The total CSR spending by Indian companies under Section 135 of the Companies Act crossed twenty thousand crore rupees annually in recent years. A significant portio

Most NGOs in India do not lose CSR funding because their work is not good enough.They lose it because their proposal is.The work happening on the ground the tree plantations, the school programmes, the water infrastructure, the health camps is often genuinely excellent. Impactful. Documented. Real.

The temperature crosses 38 degrees. The fans go on full speed. The air conditioners get switched on for the first time since last year. The electricity bills start climbing. The water usage spikes. And somewhere in a village that never made it to the news, a well runs dry and a woman starts waking up an hour earlier to get to the water source before it is gone.

A village where women woke up at 4 AM just to fetch water. Girls who walked 7 kilometres to school every single day in the heat. Streets that went completely dark after sunset. Schools where girls quietly skipped days every month because no one had solved a problem that has always had a simple solution. These are not statistics. These are real places. Real people. Real problems that Marpu Foundation and Nagase India Private Limited decided to solve not with a plan on paper,