Year: 2026

THE BLUESKYVIEWEvidence. Impact. Better Decisions. Seen, But Never Screened Every October, corporate India lights up pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month — walks, ribbons, camps, social posts. India recorded 192,020 new breast cancer cases and 98,337 deaths in a single year — close to one death for every two women…

THE BLUESKYVIEWEvidence. Impact. Better Decisions. Does “Feeling Safe” Mean Your Workplace-Safety Programme Is Creating Impact? 91% of women surveyed nationally call their workplace safe by day. Only 47% know whether their organisation has a POSH policy. Just 35% of SHe-Box complaints had been resolved as of February 2026. India’s workplace-safety…

THE BLUESKYVIEWEvidence. Impact. Better Decisions.   Is Your CSR Disaster-Relief Programme Creating Recovery? ₹2,117.85 crore released to flood-hit States under the SDRF. NDRF teams pre-deployed across seven States through the 2026 monsoon. Rainfall forecast at 90% of the long-period average. India’s disaster-response machinery moves fast once floods strike. But for…

THE BLUESKY VIEW Evidence. Impact. Better Decisions.  Is Your CSR project “Mental Health Programme” Creating Impact – or Just Delivering CSR Activities? 34.34 lakh calls to Tele-MANAS. 53 Tele-MANAS cells across 36 States and Union Territories. A new mental-health wellness centre launched for more than 20,000 employees in Chennai. https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2243766&reg=3&lang=1 India’s…

63 lakh teachers trained. More than 1 crore teachers in India’s school system. These are impressive numbers. But here is the question CSR teams should be asking as part of any genuine CSR impact assessment: what changed because of that training? A teacher completing a training programme is an output.…

PMGSY Has Built 7.87 Lakh KM of Rural Roads. The Road Is Rarely Where CSR Impact Should End. The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, marking 25 years in 2025, has sanctioned 8.25 lakh km of rural roads and completed 7.87 lakh km of them, close to 95% physical progress, as…

India Has 3,696 Centrally Protected Monuments. An Untapped Opportunity for Corporate CSR. The Archaeological Survey of India protects roughly 3,695–3,698 centrally protected monuments and sites across the country, including 24 cultural World Heritage sites, per ASI’s own published figures and a December 2024 government reply in the Rajya Sabha. Government…

Only 4.4% of India’s Youth Have Ever Had Formal Vocational Training. International Youth Day Should Worry Every CSR Team. Yesterday was International Youth Day. Here is the highlight number for every corporate CSR team investing in skilling: per the Periodic Labour Force Survey 2022-23, only 21% of India’s youth aged…

What If Healthcare CSR Is Funding the Wrong Season? The monsoon does not cause the most damage. The weeks after it do – and that is precisely when most healthcare CSR budgets have already been spent. Corporate Social Responsibility in healthcare has typically followed a predictable rhythm: fund the toilets,…

India recorded 2,135 human trafficking cases in 2024, involving 6,018 victims — a 2.2% decline in case numbers from the previous year. Of those victims, 2,297 were children, and 3,721 were adults. Police rescued 5,839 victims and arrested 5,904 persons for trafficking offences over the year. These figures come from…