'Kartavya' - The CSR Club Of IIM Raipur Shows 'CSR Is Not A Charity But A Necessity'

The club organises a wide range of activities for community development and the list is ever emerging. Starting from Pratigya, annual oath taking ceremony to inculcate good work ethics in the future managers of the country, it has come a long way to conduct events of national outreach. The biggest event carried out in this academic year was RAAHAT, a collection drive conducted in December 2015 for Chennai flood victims. The essentials were transported to a relief camp via Hyderabad with the help of Rotary Club of Raipur and Goonj, a national NGO. One of the recent events was Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan, a national campaign by Government of India which covers 4041 statutory cities and towns, to clean the streets, roads and infrastructure of the country.

Other events include Self Defence Training for school girls. After the training, the students felt confident of protecting themselves and were aware of how to respond to different situations and not being helpless. Another initiative was Secret Santa, which was a visit to a local orphanage that is managed by SOS. The happiness on the faces of the children on seeing a Santa Claus distributing gifts to them on Christmas Eve was extremely rewarding and overwhelming. The club also focuses on organising periodic health camps, blood donation camps, eye camps and organ donation camps.  It also proposes to organise more and better-serving activities for the society in the upcoming year.

So what do we achieve in serving the society? Is it happiness on seeing that little kid’s smile on receiving the Christmas gift or is it that loving hug from an old lady in the old age home who is deprived of son/daughter to take care of? Is it a sense of pride in educating the less privileged through nukkad nataks or is it the sense of courage and strength derived from blood donation camps and Raahat (flood relief campaign)? The feeling is beyond all these that give us the single most important thing in life – Satisfaction. The rippling effect our activities is immense positivity that is encouraging everyone at IIM Raipur campus to serve the needy and continually put efforts to spread the message of Kartavya- the sense of responsibility.

For all of us at IIM Raipur, the notion behind CSR is - 'CSR is not a charity, but a necessity!'