Who inaugurated NCCSR 2026 and released the Comprehensive CSR Framework for Indian Coal Companies?

The correct answer is the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs. NCCSR 2026 was organised by IICA, specifically by its School of Business Environment, under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, and was held at The Ashok in New Delhi on 6 and 7 October 2026. Its Director General and CEO, Shri Gyaneshwar Kumar Singh, and Prof. Garima Dadhich, who heads the School of Business Environment, both addressed the conference, and the institute also prepared the sector-specific CSR frameworks for the Ministry of Coal and Coal India Limited that the panels discussed. Options A, C and D name the Indian Institute of Public Administration, the National Institute of Financial Management and the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, all real bodies working in public administration, finance and corporate practice, but none of them hosted this conference. Candidates should pair IICA with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs when a CSR question appears.

The correct answer is ‘Re-envisioning the Spirit of CSR for Viksit Bharat: From Compliance to Commitment’. The theme set the direction of both days: speakers were asked to treat CSR as a sustained commitment rather than an annual compliance exercise, and the valedictory session carried the shorter title ‘From Compliance to Commitment’. Option A is wrong, though one panel did examine sector-based approaches aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals and recommended better alignment of CSR reporting with them. Options C and D are invented slogans that read plausibly but were not used. Candidates should also retain the related numbers and names for this event: more than 600 senior representatives attended, the venue was The Ashok in New Delhi, the dates were 6 and 7 October 2026, and three documents were released across the two days.

The correct answer is the Social Stock Exchange. The inaugural session was followed by a fireside chat titled ‘Social Stock Exchange: Purpose, Capital and Impact’, featuring Shri Shailesh K. Pathak, Senior Advisor for Policy at the National Stock Exchange, along with Prof. Garima Dadhich of IICA. The discussion looked at how the Social Stock Exchange can link social purpose with capital, and why credible impact measurement, transparency and institutional trust matter for financing the social sector. Options B, C and D name sovereign green bonds, the municipal bond market and alternative investment funds, which are genuine instruments in Indian finance but were not the subject of this session. Other sessions at the conference covered Board governance in CSR, the CSR Exchange portal, Artificial Intelligence in CSR, care work and women’s economic empowerment, and the Prime Minister’s Internship Scheme.

The correct answer is exports, organics and seeds. NCEL is National Cooperative Exports Limited, NCOL is National Cooperative Organics Limited and BBSSL is Bharatiya Beej Sahakari Samiti Limited, the national seed cooperative. At the workshop the Secretary said several states had used these three bodies well, and that they were opening up aggregation of farm produce, access to wider markets and better prices for farmers and cooperative members. Options B, C and D are wrong because they do not match the three abbreviations, even though dairy cooperatives, fisheries, fertiliser business plans and decentralised grain storage were all taken up in separate sessions of the same workshop. Remember the three expansions together, as they are a frequent target for questions.

The correct answer is Dr Ashish Kumar Bhutani, Secretary in the Ministry of Cooperation, who closed the workshop by calling the discussions productive and asking states to move from discussion to implementation. Option A is a tempting distractor, because the ministry functions under Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah and the workshop was held under his leadership, but the concluding remarks came from the Secretary. Option C is wrong, although a presentation by NABARD on a uniform Core Banking Solution platform was appreciated at the session. Option D is wrong as well. The Secretary stressed that one model of cooperative development cannot suit every state, and that successful district level innovations should be documented, repeated and scaled up.