Top Indian business houses expressed their interest to expand social
business, a brainchild of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, in their
country to fight social problems.
Indian businesspeople met Yunus in Mumbai at a daylong conference on Monday, Yunus Centre said in a statement.
Leading companies, including Tata, Boston Consulting Group, Mahindra,
YES Bank, JP Morgan and Google, joined the session to create a forum
that will implement an action plan for expanding social business.
The action plan will facilitate social business initiatives by respective corporate houses.
Yunus Social Business, India organised the session, according to the statement.
Prof Yunus appreciated the willingness of the Indian businesses to
spend their mandatory CSR budget on social business to solve social
problems in a sustainable manner. Pankaja Munde, minister of social
welfare, poverty alleviation and women affairs, also participated in the
conference. She said she would come to Bangladesh to see social
business initiatives launched by Yunus.
Deepak Vasant Kesarkar, Maharashtra's minister of state for finance
and rural development, welcomed Yunus in Mumbai and organised a meeting
to discuss various programmes with him.
On February 6-7, Yunus took part, as a keynote speaker, in the annual
“development dialogues” hosted by Deshpande Foundation in Karnataka.
Star Business Desk
