The Dainik Jagran Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) Awards function 2019 happened on 27th Feb, 2019 at Eros Hotel, Nehru Place, New Delhi.
The function as well as the award ceremony was an initiative of Jagran Pehel – which is Dainik Jagran’s CSR arm. Jagran Pehel is headed by Shri Sarva Mitra Sharma – a gentleman who’s attention to detail and approach to managing and public outreach this writer is a huge fan of.
The guest of honour at the function was Shri Manoj Sinha – BJP MP and Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Communications and MoS for Railways.
Shri Manoj Sinha is a civil engineer from IT-BHU (now IIT BHU) and is known to be among the quietest workers and among the most effective ministers in terms of getting stuff done – in the current government. Well atleast the speech he gave was thoughtful, informative and thought-provoking and fairly short and well received by the audience.
Below is a link to a youtube video of most of his speech:
The nominees for the CSR awards (as per the list on the event invitation bundle) were:
Nominees from Corporate Category:
GAIL (India) Limited;
IndianOil;
ONGC;
NTPC;
NBCC;
REC;
Indraprastha Gas Limited;
MD
Adani Wilmar Limited;
BALCO; Butterfly Fields;
Apollo Total Health;
Vedanta Ltd – Udaipur;
UPL Limited; Bharti Foundation;
JM Financial; House of Anita Dongre Limited;
Magma Fincorp Limited;
Gramin Healthcare;
Hindustan Zinc Limited;
Kam-Shala;
Nine Foundation;
CRISIL Limited
Nominees for NGO Category:
World Toilet Association – Singapore;
Water Aid;
Arranya Environmental Organization;
SankalpTaru Foundation;
CitizenAssociations for Child Rights;
Anupam Nidhi – Siemens Ltd.;
ASTARC Group – KMCT;
Durbar Mahila Samvanya Committee;
India HIV/AIDS Alliance;
Umeed Foundation;
ADRA India;
Akshaya Patra Foundation;
LearningLinksIndia.org;
Wockhardt Foundation;
GFI – Clean Roads India;
Collective Good Foundation – Samhita;
Sahabhag ;
Aga Kha Agency for Habitat India;
Aga Khan Foundation;
Keshav Srushti;
Friends Union for Energising Lives (FUEL);
Dr.Swapan Kumar Ghosh;
Sir NessWadia Foundation;
Larsen & Toubro Public Charitable Trust;
Samagra Empowerment Foundation;
The event was especially interesting that part of the event compering was done by Shri.Rana Singh, Vice Chancellor of Sanskriti University – who at 44 is among the youngest VCs of any university anywhere.
Here are some pictures from the event:
Lamp Lighting – Shri.SM Sharma, Chairman Jagran Pehel lights lamp with Shri.Manoj Sinha MoS Railways & Communication and Shri Sandeep Gupta, Chief Manager Dainik Jagran.
Guest of Honour MoS Shri Manoj Sinha welcomed by Shri Sandeep Gupta – as Shri Prashant Mishra Political Editor Dainik Jagran Looks on.
Chief Guest Shri Manoj Sinha Mos Communications and Railways Gives his speech