Friday Talk Series on "The Impact of COVID-19 on Insolvency Laws and Practice in South Africa" with Prof. Andre Boraine (University of Pretoria, South Africa), Prof. Juanita Calitz (University of Johannesburg, South Africa), Dr. Eric Levenstein (Senior Attorney & Director, Werksmans Attorneys) on 26th June 2020 @02:00 p.m.

19 June, 2020

Friday Talk Series on "COVID-19 & Distressed Business : American responses" with Prof. Adrian Walters, Ralph L. Brill Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent, College of Law, USA on 19th June 2020 @07:30 p.m

12 June, 2020

Friday Talk Series on "COVID-19-Implication on Insolvency Regime in New Zealand: Lessons for India" with Dr. Akshaya Kamalnath, Lecturer at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand and Mr. Pulkit Deora, an acclaimed Legal practitioner in the field of Insolvency on 12th June 2020 at 2:00 p.m.

5 June, 2020

Centre for Insolvency and Bankruptcy, IICA continued with “Friday Talk Series”, a series of web talks bringing together academicians from top-notch universities across the world to deliberate upon the Impact of COVID-19 on Insolvency laws. The idea is to deliberate upon the Impact of COVID-19 on Insolvency laws in their home country and share insights on measures adopted across nations while navigating through this new normal. Friday Talk Series on "Covid-19-Implication on Insolvency Regime in Europe" with Dr. Paul J. Omar, Sr. Lecturer, De Montfort University, UK and Technical Research Co-ordinator, INSOL Europe was held on 5th June' 2020 at 2:00 p.m.

The three essential and complementary aspects of development; social, economic and physical require local solutions implemented with the knowledge and engagement of local people and supported by the CSR funds of companies with light oversight. Since the onset of COVID-19, the focus of NGOs and Corporate has been inclined towards addressing immediate relief activities through financial and social support in the fight against COVID-19. The past few months have witnessed active support from companies in India not only in monetary terms, but also in non-monetary forms. A compendium was developed and published by NFCSR at IICA that exhibits the innovative and necessary CSR activities, being undertaken by the top 100 companies in India. The Compendium captures the CSR initiatives of the companies who have positively impacted the lives of lakhs of people in various developmental sectors in accordance with the Schedule VII and SDG indicators.

CSR Policy Review, Revision & Redesigning for PTC Group of Companies

National Foundation for Corporate Social Responsibility conducted the policy analysis and submitted inputs and revision on PTC Groups of Companies’s CSR policy. PTC Foundation Trust (PFT) (Established by the PTC Group of Companies for undertaking CSR activities on behalf of the three Companies) is doing facilitation work in review of the CSR Policy of PTC India Ltd. As a corporate citizen, PTC India Limited (“PTC”) is committed to ensure the social upliftment of the communities in which it operates through Corporate Social Responsibility (“CSR”) initiatives. NFCSR has given due emphasis that the policy lays down the guidelines and mechanism for undertaking socially useful programmes for welfare and sustainable development of community at large. The CSR Policy which was framed nearly 3-4 years ago and has been reviewed revised and aligned keeping in view the recent changes in the Companies Act with respect to section 135 which cover provisions for CSR. NFCSR focused on revision of the policy keeping the following parameters in mind; Review of existing CSR Policy of PTC and suggested changes for smoothening of objective and process; Revised Policy due to change in regulatory provisions and Designed working relationship of PFT with PTC group companies CSR Functioning.

Shortlisting of the CSR Projects / Programmes nominated for the National Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Awards 2020 was approved by the Grand Jury for the next phase of detailed submission. Shortlisted Companies have been notified to make detailed submissions of their respective shortlisted CSR projects/ programmes deadline for furnishing detailed submission is 6 July 2020. Concerned companies are advised to visit www.csr.gov.in for further details.

During the prevailing Covid -19 pandemic, officers and employees of IICA refreshing themselves physically and mentally by performing yoga on the 6th International Yoga Day. IICA encourages its officers & employees to practice yoga for a balanced, healthy & stress free lifestyle. IICA also conducts daily yoga sessions on the campus under the stewardship of DG&CEO,IICA.

IICA Knowledge Resource Centre has provided all the digital services uninterrupted during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Users are accessing the digital resources remotely with the KRC-RemoteXs facility. Apart from the subscribed the following databases were also provided to the users:

1. EBSCO Business Source Ultimate, eBook Academic Collection and HBR Ascend and HBR eBooks
2. Bloomsbury Collections- Databases and eBooks (through user id & password also)
3. Cambridge University Press- Free access to Academic textbooks on Cambridge Core
4. LexisNexis Subscription services
5. EPWRF India Time Series.
6. EBSCO Collection Manager.
7. OpenEdition.
8. J-Gate (through user id & password)

Trial access links of following databases are also added at KRC-RemoteXs portal

1. WestLaw India
2. SCC Online
3. HeinOnline

In addition to above mentioned databases KRC has provided 40+ Open Access e-Resources Links, J-Gate etc.

KRC has provided Online KRC Membership and supporting the users in accessing the digital content to the users. Full-text e-resources to the individual users as per their request is also an additional feature. KRC is managing e-newspaper and magazine service to its users on daily/weekly basis. KRC has subscribed to emagster.com where more than 13000 emagazins and newsletters are being provided through digital mode. The Institutional repository developed by KRC using Dspacen open source software now have more than 1185+ books, articles, case studies etc on various subject areas of Corporate Affairs which is highly being used by the users for their academic and research purpose. KRC is also managing email campaigns to alumni about institute’s ongoing webinars, panel discussions and current course curriculum.