Dr. MCR HRD Institute & CII Telangana Signed a MoU for Collaboration

Dr. MCR HRD Institute, Government of Telangana and Confederation of India Industry (CII) Telangana signed a MoU for activity-based collaboration today. Smt. Anitha Balakrishna, IA&AS, Joint Director General, Dr. MCR HRD Institute and Mr. Ramesh Datla, Chairman, CII Southern Region & Chairman & Managing Director, Elico Ltd. were the signatories.

Both the organization will be working on some of the important areas which will create positive impact on the society, through joint interventions from Government and the Industry. Some of the areas of partnership identified are – Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Sustainability, Make in India, Make in Telangana, and Governance. The first spell of the joint initiative will involve organization of two National Seminars on ‘Best Practices in Corporate Social Responsibility’ and ‘Case Studies on Governance’. The other interventions planned are collaboration in the fields of Disaster Management and Climate Change, besides others. 

Mr. Vinod Kumar Agrawal, IAS, Director General, MCR HRD Institute & E O Spl. Chief Secretary to Government of Telangana said that Government and Corporate Sector, the two big and mighty players, have been, by and large, working in their respective watertight compartments and, therefore, opined that a much larger scale of collaboration between them is the need of the hour. “Such socially-relevant campaigns as CSR, Make in India, Make in Telangana, Eco-Responsiveness, Climate Change, Disaster Management, etc. will achieve higher levels of success  when Government and Corporate Sector join hands and put forth concerted efforts in order to make them a spectacular success", said Mr. Agrawal.

There is an immense pressure on our natural resources, carbon emissions are alarmingly high, and inequalities are increasing. The environment is suffering as are the people. The MoU, through training, advisory, and consultative services, will be a step in the direction of finding sustainable solutions to environment-related issues', added Mr. Agrawal.

"Factors other than cost are becoming more and more important for corporate sector to decide the location for sourcing and manufacturing. CII Telangana and Dr. MCR HRD Institute will initiate innovative interventions to strengthen manufacturing landscape that would add to ‘Make in India’ and ‘Make in Telangana’ initiatives, said Mr. Ramesh Datla and added that a series of initiatives on the best use of CSR will be organized for the overall socio-economic development of the State”.

-Press note