Tag: concept of social responsibility

To increase consumer awareness, the Government of India launched the eco-labelling scheme known as $`Ecomark'$ in $1991$ for easy identification of environment-friendly products. Any product which is made, used or disposed of in a way that significantly reduces the harm it would otherwise cause the environment could be considered as Environment-Friendly Product. The $'Ecomark'$ label is awarded to consumer goods which meet the specified environmental criteria and the quality requirements of Indian Standards. Any product with the $Ecomark$ will be the right environmental choice.

The British introduced scientific management of forests through a centralised approach to forest management and development. The first formal government approach to forestry can be traced to the enactment of the National Forest Policy of $1894$ which stressed on conserving forests for maintaining environmental stability and meeting basic needs of fringe forest user groups. The policy was revised in $1952$ and the new policy emphasised on extension of forests beyond the traditional forest areas. This gave impetus to social forestry and $agro/farm$ forestry.

Industrial production has grown in India by more than $50-$fold over the past century. Cement, Thermal power plants, sugars and oil refiners are all considered as heavily polluting industries. These  contribute to the environment in terms of suspended particulate matter, gases and effluents. About $77$ per cent of the industries contribute to water pollution while $15$ per cent to air pollution and the remaining eight per cent to both air and water pollution. 

The Central Pollution Control Board $(CPCB)$ of India is a statutory organisation under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.It serves as a field formation and also provides technical services to the Ministry of Environment and Forests of the provisions of the Environment (Protection) Act, $1986$. Principle functions of $CPCB$ are $(i)$ to promote cleanliness of streams and wells in different areas of the States by prevention, control and abatement of water pollution, and $(ii)$ to improve the quality of air and to prevent, control or abate air pollution in the country

The Wildlife Protection Act, $1972$ is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted for the protection of plants and animal species. Wildlife Protection Act $1972$ was passed on $August 21, 1972,$ but was later implemented on $September 9, 1972.$

Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat destruction; the extinction of wildlife; and pollution.It is defined as any change or disturbance to the environment perceived to be deleterious or undesirable. Ecological effect or degradation is created by the consolidation of an effectively substantial and expanding human populace, constantly expanding monetary development or per capita fortune and the application of asset exhausting and polluting technology. It occurs when earth’s natural resources are depleted and environment is compromised in the form of extinction of species, pollution in air, water and soil, and rapid growth in population.

A company is said to have adopted fairness in employment practice when it follows a policy of recruiting on the basis of qualification and other merits and not on the basis of bribe, recommendation etc.