The seminar revisits one of the earliest formal engagements with Corporate Social Responsibility in Independent India held in March 1965, at the India international Centre.  Held under the leadership of the late Shri Jayaprakash Narayan and attended by academicians, politicians, businessmen and development thinkers and practitioners, the seminar was inaugurated by Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India 

 

This seminar’s specific objectives is to reflect on whether progress has been made on business responsibility in the last fifty years (since 1965 seminar) and discuss the emerging nature of corporate responsibility in India