Corporate social responsibility
Quite a large number of proprietor/partnership firms, private/public limited companies earn huge amount of profit at the end of each account-year. In many cases, large chunk of these profits goes undisclosed and remains outside the tax-net.
Barring a few, these establishments have a very scanty record of contribution towards philanthropic programmes targeting the weaker section of society.
In leading countries of the world almost all big business houses have some kind of charity programme for food, health, education, shelter etc. Many world celebrities of past and present are direct beneficiaries of such programmes.
It is learnt that some 62,000 boys and girls achieved GPA-5 in the last SSC examination all over the country. They are undoubtedly most brilliant product of the nation. Many of these students cannot pursue higher studies in an ideal atmosphere as per their choice due to dismal financial condition of their guardians. But if these talents are properly nourished and tended they will surely constitute a high-value human resource for the country in near future.
A large population uneducated, unskilled is just a mob, a liability and shame whereas a small group of learned and skilled is a team and indomitable force.
Having said so, I would humbly urge all our privileged fellow country men to include some kind of philanthropic agenda in their yearly business-plan, whatever little it may be, at least for the sake of their own legacy if not for anything else.
In the instant case they may pick some financially challenged GPA-5 holders for assisting their higher studies up to Ph.D level in an accredited institution anywhere at home or abroad.
We must not forget that affluence may suddenly vanish any time but virtue never withers.
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