Prutha Goa

The idea of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in India, is not a new one. It existed in the form of philanthropy well before the Industrial Revolution made its impact in India. The 19th century saw India’s corporate giants take an active role in promoting social causes, but they did incorporate their biases and ulterior motives in a covert manner into whatever practices they chose to undertake. The Companies Act, 2013, which came into effect on 1 April, 2014 mandates companies having a net worth of Rs. 500 crores or a turnover of Rs. 1000 crores or a net profit of Rs. 5 crores, to spend 2 per cent of their average net profit of the previous three years on corporate social responsibility activities. Mr Manguirish Pai Raiker is a prominent business figure in Goa, who has in addition to his long list of credentials, the honour of being the erstwhile president of Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the director of Goa Handicrafts Rural and Small Scale Industries Development Corpor

Education has become the means of producing inept, unhappy, unimaginative and directionless individuals. This statement would be very true of the present educational system in Goa and India at large. Albert Einstein said: ‘Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.’ So just what is our educational system doing for our young people besides undermining and suppressing any category of intelligence and skills it does not include in its quota of valid abilities and intellect? Mr Manguirish Pai Raiker, who is a prominent businessman and the former president of Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has much to say about the educational system in its current avatar of leniency in examination corrections and promotion to higher classes. It is evident by the quality of students that pass out of university every year that all they ever do is learn enough by rote to pass exams. Since they lack the understa

Goa was once a land of verdant beauty with its any fields glowing with crops. Gradually it is beginning to resemble a concrete jungle, ravaged by the contrivances of land sharks and builders. Agriculture was once the mainstay of this tiny state, but today a considerable amount of land lies fallow. The owners of the fields, in most cases, have given up cultivation owing to the costs involved and the lack of manpower. The revival of agriculture as a primary occupation and the recommencing of cultivation of this fallow land must be armoured by the development of a scientific approach. For this, however, trained manpower is required and agriculture is not a subject available easily at an academic level. It was for this reason that the Ramanata Crisna Pai Raikar School of Agriculture (RCRSA) came into existence under the patronage of well-known businessman and erstwhile president of the GCCI (Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry) Mr Manguirish Pai Raiker. The school has 11th and 12th standa