Ministry of Railway launched Rail Sahyog portal to avail CSR funds to develop amenities at railway stations.
11th September, 2018Category: National
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday launched a web portal Rail Sahyog wherein private and public sector undertakings can contribute their corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds to develop amenities at railway stations. The companies wanting to contribute can register their requests on the portal — Rail Sahyog — and choose the amenity they want to promote. The railways has identified five activities in which such contributions will be allowed — toilets in circulating areas, providing free Wi-Fi with kiosks for e-services for citizens at stations, plastic bottle crushing machines, steel benches and dustbins.
According to the Rail Sahyog website, Indian Railways is hoping to upgrade its technology, infrastructure and hygiene standards in line with PM Modi’s ‘New India by 2022’ vision. A change in the company law in April 2014 mandated that businesses with annual revenues of more than Rs 10 billion give away two per cent of their net profit to charity. To encourage participation of private companies and public sector undertakings in identified works/activities to be done under CSR in the railways, a policy framework had been put in place by the national transporter in 2016.
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