{"id":14215,"date":"2021-05-20T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idronline.org\/?post_type=news&p=14215"},"modified":"2021-05-20T14:15:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T08:45:57","slug":"oxygen-support-and-medical-equipment-now-counts-as-csr","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/idronline.org\/kn-in\/news\/oxygen-support-and-medical-equipment-now-counts-as-csr\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate spending on oxygen support and medical equipment now counts as CSR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Philanthropy & CSR<\/a>:<\/strong> The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has issued a circular<\/a> that allows corporate spending on health infrastructure for COVID-19 care to qualify as corporate social responsibility (CSR) expenditure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This includes setting up medical oxygen generation and storage plants, manufacturing and supply of oxygen concentrators, ventilators, cylinders, and other medical equipment to counter COVID-19.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement comes at a time when all efforts are being directed towards expediting efforts to support the country\u2019s healthcare infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the circular, companies can now undertake projects and activities in collaboration with other companies using CSR funds. Additionally, they can contribute to specified research and development projects, as well as publicly funded universities and certain organisations that conduct research in science, technology, engineering, and medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government had earlier<\/a> clarified that setting up makeshift hospitals and temporary COVID-19 care facilities would also be considered a CSR activity. Rajesh Verma, the Corporate Affairs Secretary, has requested businesses to consider converting vacant office buildings into COVID-19 facilities to cater to the rapidly increasing caseload.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read <\/em>this article<\/em><\/a> to understand why media attention on COVID-19 deaths due to lack of oxygen in big cities has skewed donor priorities.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14216,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[3605],"schema-filter":[],"no-display":[],"class_list":["post-14215","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coronavirus"],"yoast_head":"\nOxygen support and medical equipment now counts as CSR | IDR<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has issued a circular that allows corporate funds spent on health infrastructure for COVID-19 care to qualify as CSR expenditure.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/idronline.org\/news\/oxygen-support-and-medical-equipment-now-counts-as-csr\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"kn_IN\" 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