Social responsibility
Every multi-national or big company has social responsibility. From this responsibility, they donate money to the orphanages, hospitals, universities, schools, colleges etc. It helps them to build a strong base in different societies. I appreciate the companies which are carrying it out well. But the question of performing social responsibility needs discussion. We know that we lag behind in using the latest technology. We are still dependent on agriculture, but we have shortage of modern instruments for conducting bio-technology research. Besides, most of the universities have no modern lab facilities where students and teachers work on their research elaborately. We see that companies are more enthusiastic to donate their money in less important areas, rather than in productive and constructive fields. A few days ago, I learned that a private bank donated money for building an art research centre. I am not against the development of art and culture. But the most important thing for us now is to be self-dependent in agriculture. For this reason, we have to do more research on inventing new high quality hybrid seeds. We have to do more research on reducing use of insecticides, so that we can make our environment free from pollution.
It is frustrating that most of the multinational companies smell benefits of shouldering social responsibility, but not anything beyond that.
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