Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 2

Can Corporate Social Responsibility be a Force Multiplier to Control Malnutrition in India?

1PhD Scholar Amity School of Economics, Amity University, Noida

2Professor, Community Medicine, Army College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

3Professor, Amity School of Economics, Amity University, Noida

*Corresponding Author: Rajul Kumar Gupta Professor, Community Medicine, Army College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi Email: rajulkgupta@yahoo.co.in Tele: +918527389090

Online published on 16 March, 2018.

Abstract

By law, Corporate houses are now bound to contribute certain percentage of their profits for welfare of society through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative. Challenges such as poverty, hunger and illiteracy, though apparently seem out of corporate responsibility's domain, but they can be mitigated to an extent by CSR. Corporates have social, moral, ethical and economic responsibility towards society. The paper exemplifies prominent case studies to elaborates the role, corporate sector is playing in contributing to control hunger and malnutrition in India.

Keywords

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Malnutrition, Social welfare, Undernutrition