UN Global Compact in India
The Global Compact Network (GCN) India was formed by some of the organizations from India who are participating in the United Nation's Global Compact Programme. It was registered on 24th November 2003, with Registrar of Societies, NCT, Delhi, as a non-profit body. The main objective of the Network is to provide a forum to various Indian Companies/ Organizations to exchange experiences, network and work together on activities related to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). This is expected to promote sustainable growth besides encouraging good corporate citizenship. The Network, acts as an Apex level nodal agency representing various Indian Corporate bodies/ Institutions/ NGOs/ SMEs, who are committed to UN's Global Compact principles.
The Global Compact Network, India has been one of the pioneering local initiatives of the UN Global Compact. It is one of the first local networks to be set up as a legal entity. Over the last 9 years the network has seen modest growth and has been able to create a niche for itself within efforts by the business community directed towards realising the vision sustainable development in India. At present Sudhir Vasudeva, CMD, ONGC is the President of the Global Compact Network India for the term 2011-13 and is managed by governing Council consisting of Sudhir Vasudeva, CMD, ONGC, C.S Verma Chairman,SAIL, Chandrajeet Banerjee Director General, CII, D S Rawat Secretary General,ASSOCHAM, Dr.A K Balyan CEO, MD Petronet LNG Limited, Dr.Pragnya Ram Group President Aditya Birla, Uddesh Kohli Chairman Emeritus, Dr.U.D Choubey Director General, SCOPE, Satish Rao AGM,BHEL, Joy Deshmukh Global CSR Head, TCS, N. K Nanda Director Technical, NDMC, R K Saha CMD, Dr.Rajiv Kumar Secretary General,FICCI, Brig.Rajiv Williams Corporate Head,CSR,JSL, Rekha Sethi Director General,AIMA, S.P Singh Director (HR),NTPC, S P S Bakshi CMD,EPIL, Vinod Singh Vice-Chairman,CCLP Worldwide, H D Gandhi Chief Manager, CSR, IOCL.
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