Impact of Awareness Rising Program on Corporate Social Responsibility Practice: an Analysis in Selected Bank

Abstract

This paper interprets how to commercial banks practice corporate social responsibility in Bangladesh. This study represents focus on different Rules and regulations of Bangladesh. It also focuses on different awareness raising program of different organization arranged at different times. The standard chartered bank and the Daily Star arranged different awards to motivate different organizations towards Corporate social responsibility program. Different banks are now focusing on CSR activities as government has identified different sectors of CSR investment to get 10 % tax rebate on Corporate Social Responsibility expenditure. Now, among different banks, the paper shows that the first priority of most of the bank is to invest in educational sectors. IBBL, Exim bank, DBBL, bank asia etc. invest only those sectors that provide tax rebate facilities to the organizations. The trend of CSR investment also showing increasing for the last few years with the increasing number of awareness rising program on corporate social responsibility.

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility, awareness, investment sectors, education, Community Development.

DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/11-3-16