CSR - Q20131205-11

Is there access to any CSR assessment reports to the public ? I wanted to know how Ibndian companies have been ranked on the effectiveness of their CSR initiatives but found little information about that !

Hi there

This is a difficult one because companies tend not to disclose their CSR assessments, mainly not to reveal their weaknesses to the competition. It is not so much the general public but the competitors who could read out the weaknesses and build on that. So theses assessments are confidential.

But of course if a company reports properly on their CSR activities, then you will be able to find a lot of information but admittetly especially in India a lot of CSR reports are more PR exercises than real stakeholder dialogue, which they should be.

Hope this helps

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