MPL Sports Foundation representative received the award from Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai at the 12th CSR Leadership Summit held in Bengaluru.
GURUGRAM: MPL Sports Foundation―the philanthropic arm of MPL has won the coveted India CSR Leadership Award 2021 for its Community Covid-19 relief work.
The program that has benefitted marginalized families was recognized as the Most Innovative Community Engagement Project 2021 at the 12th CSR Leadership Summit held in Bengaluru on December 10, 2021.
India CSR Founder Rusen Kumar, Accel Partner Chief Prashanth Prakash, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, Niti Aayog Chairman Dr. Rajiv Kumar presenting the Award.
Mobile Premier League (MPL), is India’s largest eSports and mobile gaming platform, with over 70 games on its app on iOS and Android.
“This award honours our Covid Sahyog work, including the vaccination drives we conducted across Karnataka, administering more than 100,000 vaccines till date.”, the company said.
“MPL Sports Foundation is extremely proud to have received the India CSR Leadership Award 2021 for our work to support our communities as part of Covid Sahyog.”, the company said.
Suresh Vaidyanathan, Vice President, MPL Sports Foundation and Subhashini Rajaram, Manager -Corporate Affairs and Communication, MPL received the award from Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai in a gathering of more than 400 participants, more than 300 organizations, and more than 50 speakers from corporate, civil society, venture capital sector, start-ups, social enterprises, academia, and media.
“It is indeed a great honour for us to receive this coveted award from the hands of Honourable CM of Karnataka. This award is for all those who believed in the soul of this programme. Despite the challenges of the COVID situation, their active participation in the programme has given us this confidence to not only improvise the implementation but also extend this to the needy people. We are happy the efforts are being recognized at the national level. Congratulations to the whole MPL team involved in planning and implementation” said the company said.
The Foundation believes in taking an innovative approach to address social issues by developing a self-sustained program for communities.
Rusen Kumar, Founder of India CSR shared, “We are happy to conduct the 12th India CSR Leadership Summit and 10th India CSR Awards. After a rigorous assessment carried out by a highly credible jury, we are happy to announce the India CSR Award for empowering community’ to MPL Sports Foundation, for its exemplary work and vision to serve the community provideding noble services, with a clear vision and planning.”
India CSR is a leading media organisation on Sustainable Development, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Sustainability, and related issues in India. The media house offers insights on Corporate Governance, Business Responsibility, Human Rights, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Workplace Safety, Industry 4.0, CSR 2.0 and other Socio-Economic issues. Founded in 2009, the organisation aspires to become a globally admired media that offers valuable information to its readers through responsible reporting. India CSR organises flagship forum India CSR Leadership Summit and annual award show India CSR Awards. This year India CSR organised the 12th India CSR Leadership Summit and 10th India CSR Awards at Bengaluru, the capital city of Karnataka.
At the summit, Basavaraj Bommai the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Karnataka and Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairman, Niti Aayog; Dr. C.N. Ashwath Narayan, Minister for Higher Education for Govt. of Karnataka; Padma Shri Mohan Das Pai, Chairman Manipal Global Education; Mrs. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairperson Biocon; Prashanth Prakash, Partner Accel and Advisor (Policy & Strategy) and Rusen Kumar, Founder of India CSR delivered the keynote address and honoured corporates and leaders for their noble services to the society and nation at large. Over 500 Corporate, CSR, Ngo leaders and entrepreneurs, innovators, venture capitalists participated in the prestigious forum.
The theme for this year’s summit was Resurgent India – Leapfrogging Development through Innovation & Entrepreneurship. “The CSR flagship forum aimed at deliberating on ways to leverage entrepreneurship and innovation to solve critical issues in Health, Education, Livelihoods and Environment space to make a Resurgent India.”, said Rusen Kumar, Founder and Managing Editor of India CSR.
