News: IOA to set up a CSR Committee

The Indian Olympic Association is likely to set up a Corporate Social Responsibility Committee within itself. According to Narinder Batra, president of IOA, the proposed committee will be making presentations before "CSR boards of PSUs and big corporate houses so as to convince them to adopt sports activities as their CSR. The directive also asked other members of the IOA to make their own efforts in the direction. It also proposed the formation of a section in the IOA’s website wherein all documents related to CSR will be uploaded alongwith links to websites of the companies who have adopted sports activity as CSR. The IOA will also make an effort to register its members as Implementing Agency for CSR with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.