The Emerging Need for Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Investment in the Healthcare Sector during Covid 19
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The present study is a descriptive analysis of the emerging need for CSR and Sustainable Investment during COVID 19. The information has been gathered from unswerving and trustworthy secondary sources including journals, magazines, and newspapers. CSR spending of the top 10 companies in the Healthcare Sector in FY 2018-19 and 2019-20 have been statistically evaluated. The present study also accompanies the implications for sustainable investment in the pandemic period. In the study, it was found that the companies usually contribute to building hospitals, organizing camps for rural people, and giving donations in the hospitals which seems to work as short-term orientation, there is a lot more which a company can offer to enrich the lives of people with proper health and well-being. It was found in the learning that ONGC company have spent all earmarked CSR funds on the healthcare sector in FY 2019-20 which shows the impact of COVID 19 pandemic whereas spending by TCS was the lowest among 10 companies on the Healthcare Sector.
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Healthcare, COVID 19, CSR, Sustainability, InvestorsDownloads
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