Urban Cooperative Bank Case Study

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Title A study on Corporate Social Responsibility activities by Bangalore-based Urban Cooperative Banks – Initiatives and Opportunities.
Authors Dr. PR Ramakrishnan,
Faculty,
Rajalakshmi School of Business,
Kuthambakkam Post,Chennai 600124.
Email: ramakrishnan77@yahoo.com.
Phone: +91-9444298316. Prashanth Rao,
Assistant Professor,
Acharya Institute of Graduate Studies,
Bangalore - 560107.
Email: prashsubbarao@yahoo.com.
Phone: +91-9481078821.

ABSTRACT

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is defined as “”. It is an act of returning a portion of profits back to the society. This is a perfect resource give-and-take activity, a win-win situation for both corporates and the society. A few CSR initiated by big industrial houses are promoting …show more content…

Their customer base is very limited when compared to nationalized banks. UCBs operate under duality of control – Registrar of Cooperative Societies (State Government) for administrative matters and Reserve Bank of India for banking operations. These institutions thrive based on the seven principles of cooperatives. The recently introduced 97th amendment aimed at reducing State control over UCBs and to increase the role of Reserve Bank of India to inject professionalism in …show more content…

Therefore, social initiatives are voluntary in nature. The very basic purpose of cooperatives is welfare. These institutions were launched as community-based organizations, focused on uplifting their respective communities economically. A study was undertaken to ascertain the social initiatives of various cooperative banks. Most of these Bangalore-based mid-sized banks do not support CSR initiatives citing lack of resources. Further, unit banks expressed their inability for these activities considering their meager financial

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