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Union Minister of Coal and Mines Shri G. Kishan Reddy launched the Comprehensive CSR Framework for Indian Coal Companies — the first sector-specific CSR framework since statutory CSR began under the Companies Act, 2013.
The framework was prepared by the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs and is meant to make CSR in coal mining areas outcome-oriented.
Coal India Limited's Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojana has completed more than 1,050 bone marrow transplants, with up to Rs. 10 lakh per patient paid directly to empanelled hospitals against a Rs. 130 crore outlay across four phases.
Nanha Sa Dil, run with the Sri Sathya Sai Health and Education Trust, has screened over 2 lakh children and completed more than 1,500 corrective cardiac surgeries free of cost.
TBSY has grown from 4 to 21 empanelled hospitals; Nanha Sa Dil began in four districts of Jharkhand in March 2024 and was scaled up through SECL, CCL, NCL and WCL.
Fund bone marrow transplants for children with Thalassemia and Aplastic Anaemia
Key: Up to Rs. 10 lakh per patient paid directly to empanelled hospitals; network grown from 4 to 21 hospitals; over 1,050 transplants completed
Screen and surgically correct congenital heart defects in children at no cost to families
Key: Launched by CIL in four districts of Jharkhand in March 2024 with the Sri Sathya Sai Health and Education Trust; over 2 lakh children screened and 1,500-plus surgeries done, travel and hospitalisation included
Standardise and make outcome-oriented the CSR spending of coal companies in mining areas
Key: First sector-specific CSR framework in India; drafted by IICA, an autonomous body under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs
The government's own child health screening and early intervention programme, into which such CSR efforts feed
Key: Launched 6 February 2013 under the National Health Mission; screens children aged 0-18 for the '4Ds' — defects at birth, deficiencies, diseases and developmental delays — with referral through District Early Intervention Centres
Makes CSR spending mandatory for a company with net worth of Rs. 500 crore or more, turnover of Rs. 1,000 crore or more, or net profit of Rs. 5 crore or more in the immediately preceding financial year; such a company must spend at least 2 per cent of its average net profits of the three preceding financial years.
Lists the permitted CSR activities, including preventive healthcare — the head under which transplant and cardiac-surgery support qualifies.
A covered company must constitute a CSR Committee of three or more directors, at least one of whom is an independent director.
State-owned coal producer that funds both health schemes from its CSR corpus; subsidiaries SECL, CCL, NCL and WCL scaled up Nanha Sa Dil
Prepared the coal sector CSR framework; a think tank and capacity-building institute for corporate affairs and CSR
An inherited haemoglobin disorder in which the body makes too little normal haemoglobin, forcing lifelong blood transfusions. A bone marrow transplant replaces the blood-forming stem cells and is the only established cure, which is why cost, not availability of treatment, is the binding constraint.
Simple Analogy: Transfusions refill a leaking tank; a transplant replaces the faulty pump.
GS Paper 2 > Governance > Welfare Schemes and Issues Relating to Health
General Awareness > Government Schemes and Public Sector Enterprises
CIL's CSR scheme funding bone marrow transplants of up to Rs. 10 lakh per child for Thalassemia and Aplastic Anaemia.
CIL's CSR initiative for free screening and corrective surgery of congenital heart defects in children.
The obligation under Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013 to spend 2 per cent of average net profits on listed social activities — India was the first country to legislate it.