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Kolkata: Jesuit Father Irudaya Jothi has been nominated for this year’s Kolkata NGO’s Leadership Awards. The award, given on the World CSR ( Corporate Social Responsibility) Day, recognizes leaders who have made a change as a strategic tool for sustainable growth. The leaders who are impactful and have faith in a MAD (Making A Difference) approach to their work will befeted on November 8 at Taj Bengal-Kolkata.
Father Jothi directs Udayani Social Action Forum, the social justice arm of the Calcutta Jesuit province. It serves as a link between the Jesuit social apostolate in India and the priorities of the Jesuit Conference of the South Asian Assistance. An independent research team proposed his name to the chief juries who picked up his name for the award, said the secretary of the CSR.
The criteria for selection are a person’s ability to incorporate ethical values, develop responsible leaders and communities in environmental protection. The person can provide strategic perspective and build collaborate relationships, mobilize effective and sustainable resources to support programs and project works. He or she has to support local communities, demonstrate e fficient mana g ement of financial and human resources, foster good governance practices, maintain transparency and accountability.
Corporate social responsibility is a global form which functions as a self-regulatory mechanism whereby a business monitors and ensure it's active compliance with the spirit of the law, ethical standards and national or international. Father Jothi joined the Society of Jesus in 1987 at Dhyan Ashram. After completing B.A. Political Science (honors), did studied philosophy at Sacred Heart College, Chennai, and theology at Vidyajyoti College, Delhi. He was ordained a priest on December 22, 2002 at Nangathur.
He has a Master of Social Work from Bombay University. He has worked as the state animator of the All India University Federation West Bengal. He became the director of Udayani in 2007. For about 18 years, Father Jothi stayed in rural villages in the Burdwan, Hooghly and 24 South Parganas districts of West Bengal. This helped him understand the struggles and pains of villagers. His organization involves in Rights-based movements to bring social changes. Realizing that women are the most suited vehicle of this transformation, Udayani has set up Self Help Groups of women in rural West Bengal. These women have become a force to reckon with in their villages especially to implement the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA )and National Food Security Act (NFSA). The women have lobbied for the enactment and implementation of these acts in their villages and even gone to the national capital and other places to press their demand along along with network partners from all over the country.
Kolkata: Jesuit Father Irudaya Jothi has been nominated for this year’s Kolkata NGO’s Leadership Awards. The award, given on the World CSR ( Corporate Social Responsibility) Day, recognizes leaders who have made a change as a strategic tool for sustainable growth. The leaders who are impactful and have faith in a MAD (Making A Difference) approach to their work will befeted on November 8 at Taj Bengal-Kolkata.
Father Jothi directs Udayani Social Action Forum, the social justice arm of the Calcutta Jesuit province. It serves as a link between the Jesuit social apostolate in India and the priorities of the Jesuit Conference of the South Asian Assistance. An independent research team proposed his name to the chief juries who picked up his name for the award, said the secretary of the CSR.
The criteria for selection are a person’s ability to incorporate ethical values, develop responsible leaders and communities in environmental protection. The person can provide strategic perspective and build collaborate relationships, mobilize effective and sustainable resources to support programs and project works. He or she has to support local communities, demonstrate e fficient mana g ement of financial and human resources, foster good governance practices, maintain transparency and accountability.
Corporate social responsibility is a global form which functions as a self-regulatory mechanism whereby a business monitors and ensure it's active compliance with the spirit of the law, ethical standards and national or international. Father Jothi joined the Society of Jesus in 1987 at Dhyan Ashram. After completing B.A. Political Science (honors), did studied philosophy at Sacred Heart College, Chennai, and theology at Vidyajyoti College, Delhi. He was ordained a priest on December 22, 2002 at Nangathur.
He has a Master of Social Work from Bombay University. He has worked as the state animator of the All India University Federation West Bengal. He became the director of Udayani in 2007. For about 18 years, Father Jothi stayed in rural villages in the Burdwan, Hooghly and 24 South Parganas districts of West Bengal. This helped him understand the struggles and pains of villagers. His organization involves in Rights-based movements to bring social changes. Realizing that women are the most suited vehicle of this transformation, Udayani has set up Self Help Groups of women in rural West Bengal. These women have become a force to reckon with in their villages especially to implement the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA )and National Food Security Act (NFSA). The women have lobbied for the enactment and implementation of these acts in their villages and even gone to the national capital and other places to press their demand along along with network partners from all over the country.
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