In one programme on Corporate Social Responsibility organised by some Chamber, one renowned Company Secretary claim that Corporate Social Responsibilities are primary responsibility of a Company Secretary. Within no time, some other members negated this fresh liability with “we have enough” attitude.
The basis definition of CSR says “doing business responsibly”.
Bipin S. Acharya
After a long weekend, when I come back to work, my mail folders dedicated for peer group read more than 150 mails. What happened? It would have been an eventless week as government is on election mode and no major policy change was expected. Unfortunately, there was very sad news. On 28th January 2012, our beloved Company Secretary Sh. Bipin S. Acharya has left for heavenly abode. According to Hindu calendar, that was day of Basant Panchmi, the first day of spring. This is a day of cultural significance and dedicated to goddess Saraswati of knowledge and wisdom. Naturally, god has no other suitable day as an option to call a practising scholar like him.
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The minister of corporate affairs Mr. Veerappa Moily on 12th December 2011 moved 3 bills namely; the Chartered Accountants (Amendment) Bill, 2010, the Cost and Works Accountants (Amendment) Bill, 2010 and the Company Secretaries (Amendment) Bill, 2010
These bills were to amend sub-section (2) of Section 2 of three Acts namely the Chartered Accountant Act, 1949, the Cost and Works Accountants Act, 1959 and the Company Secretaries Act, 1980.
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International relation not only affect governments but public at large. In globalised world, international relations have been reached to our neighborhood tea stall or grocery shop. We judge a nation by product, we buy. We may not know, where Finland is in world map, but we know Nokia in our hand. We will surely judge Finland by Nokia. This is a public diplomacy.
The ever expanding flow of commercial products and services across borders has important implications for public diplomacy. Despite the escalation of transnational corporations, high profile brand names are closely connected with their countries of origin. Coca Cola, Nike and McDonald’s are inextricably tied with the United States. The same associations are true for Ikea with Scandanavia, Nokia with Finland, Sony with Japan, and Nestle with Switzerland.[i]
Present scheme of the Companies Act, 1956 treat wrong doing principal officers of a company as “officer who is in default”. The Act under Section 5 explicitly lists “Officer who is in default”. This list, which looks like a most wanted list of police department, really cast numerous responsibilities on these officers. Presently, the Secretary of the company seems to be only professional listed herein. As all other persons, may or may not be professionally qualified, are business person and technical persons with only average person knowledge of his legal responsibilities. This section not only cast on the secretary practically all legal responsibilities of the company’s legal administration but also put him in much bigger shoes.
Corporate world is different from political world. These two worlds are dependent on each other for their survival. Earlier, corporate houses looked towards respective national governments for their social, economic, political and legal protection. Whenever corporate houses became powerful, they had influence upon their political protectors in policy matters. Until twentieth century, power and influence of corporate houses never grew beyond the control and wishes of their political masters. With increasing sophistication in working methodology of corporate houses, their ability of influencing governments goes beyond limitations. In term of Gross Domestic Product as well as human resource availability, many corporate houses are of much better position than many nation states. This is obvious, with increasing influence and power; these corporate houses affect the national and international policies of nation states.
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