XLRI Students' Blog on Corporate Sustainability

Introduction Our world has made a lot of progress in providing easy availability and access to water and sanitation facilities to billions of people in the world especially in the rural areas. Yet, they lack the basic facilities of sanitation and hygiene. According to recent statistics, about one-third of the people on the planet don’t have access to hygienic drinking water and about 67.3 crore people still defecate in open areas. The COVID-19 pandemic acted as an eye-opener for the people in making them aware of the importance of hygiene and sanitation. Cleaning hands with soap and sanitizing it frequently increased the awareness among the population and helped billions of people around the world safeguard themselves from this virus borne disease. India has made significant development and is moving rapidly towards the goal of ending open defecation all across the country which in turn is improving the WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene). In 2015, about half the population of our...

Blog Authors:  Devansh Tripathi, Job Joseph, Lakshay Arora, Rishabh Agarwal, Tridib Banerjee, V Lohitha, Wesley John Sunil Group 2, Section D, PGDM (BM) 2020-22 Batch Introduction Quality Education is the fourth pillar of the seventeen sustainable development goals outlined by the United Nations in September 2015. Over the globe, inequitable distribution of wealth, religious disturbances, and social unrest lead to an enormous difference in the quality of education received by children. Some do not even have access to it or are forced to leave academic institutions midway to join the workforce or get married. These are not issues restricted by geographical boundaries but prevalent across various parts of the globe. The seven targets to achieve the outcome of fair education include providing free schooling & excellent pre-primary education for everyone, inexpensive higher education, imbibing the workforce with pertinent skills to achieve monetary success, eradication of all unfai...

  Quality Education.  Image courtesy: UNDP Introduction:  Quality education is one of the very important SDGs as it has great potential to bring significant social and economic justice for the future generation. If it is accomplished, the world is going to be a lot better place to the underprivileged. In that respect, this SDG focuses on providing equal access to free primary and secondary education across the globe and also aims at achieving global access to quality higher education (through the supply of high-quality teachers and increased provisions for scholarships). Its objectives include eliminating the discriminations based on gender, quality and wealth in the field of education and to ensure that by 2030, all the youth around the world are equipped with at least the knowledge of basic school education. Since the past two decades, the total number of children opting out of school across the world has almost dropped to half. Hence, with the corporates' increa...