Social Responsibility

Policy Writer: Naya Yug |

We should embrace our responsibility to people and to the country. The age-old issues of poverty, unemployment, diseases and illiteracy still persists in the 600,000 villages in the country. We need to encourage corporations to work together in partnership with the government to implement measures to fulfil the socio-economic development targets. All Fortune 1000 Indian companies should participate and contribute towards the National Socio-Economic Development Project.

• National School of Education - Thousands of children live in slum communities in India. Their parents rarely make enough money to pay for food and utilities. Education is out of the question for many children in these communities, resulting in an unbroken cycle of poverty.

  We need to provides the unique opportunity to directly improve the life of a child.

• National Health Care Facility - The health status of common man in rural India is of grave concern. Contagious, infectious and water borne diseases like diarrhea, typhoid, hepatitis, malaria, tuberculosis, respiratory infections, pneumonia and reproductive tract diseases etc dominate causes of mortality, especially in rural areas. Of 25 million children born every year in India, nearly 2 million children die before attaining the age of one year and this is because of the poor medical facilities, unawareness of diseases, poor sanitation facilities, illiteracy and poor income levels. Even today many children are disabled for life due to polio. Tuberculosis which is curable claims nearly 5 lakh lives every year. Water borne diseases accounts for about 80% of India’s health problem and every fourth person dying of such diseases are Indians. Every third person in the world suffering from leprosy is also an Indian.

  There is a great need to look closely into various streams that would help improve the rural health scenario. Community based health care is needed for the low-income and/or poor people.

• National Community Center - With a population of well over 1 billion people, India is the second most populous nation in the world. In Indian cities the problems of access to secure land and decent, affordable housing for the poor are too great for any one group to solve alone.

  We need to stabilize and help homeless people improve their lives.

• National Human Resource Development - Even after more than 50 years of Independence India still has the world’s largest number of poor people in a single country. Of its nearly 1 billion inhabitants, an estimated 260.3 million are below the poverty line, of which 193.2 million are in the rural areas and 67.1 million are in urban areas. More than 75% of poor people reside in villages. The problem of poverty persists because of our broken system.

  New laws have to be evolved to ensure more accountability. We need to setup National Human Resource Department (NHRD) to provide training and guidance for individuals seeking jobs.

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