Dr Charulatha Banerjee, ENN’s Asia Regional Knowledge Management Specialist caught up with Dr Rajan Sankar, Director of Nutrition at Tata Trusts to understand more about philanthropic business networks in India, and how nutrition fits in with the corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda.
Dr Sankar discusses Tata Trusts philanthropic work and shared some opinions on how nutrition NGOs and private sector can work together. He also shared some of the opportunities and challenges that have arisen from the new CSR law introduced in India requiring all corporates to contribute 2% of profits to CSR.
The main points of his talk are:
Malnutrition as a challenge in India
Tata Trusts’work to address the challenge
Government and other partnerships for nutrition and food fortification projects
How companies are gardually taking interest in nutrition projects in CSR
Food fortification programme in India
Action-oriented projects to address malnutrition
Video Credit: ENN
