AMCHAM’s CSR Committee held a meeting virtually on July 23rd under the leadership of Mr. Harish Krishnan, Chairman – CSR Committee, AMCHAM and Managing Director & Chief Policy Officer, Cisco Systems (India) and Mr. Rajesh Varghese, Co-Chairman – CSR Committee, AMCHAM and Country Director, Pyxera Global. The main purpose for the meeting was to get inputs on a concept note for the 9th CSR Conference with proposed theme ‘From Responsibility to Strategy: CSR for Viksit Bharat,’ which will be held on September 23rd in New Delhi. More than 40 members participated in the meeting and shared inputs on relevant themes such as health equity and innovation, climate action, skilling and livelihoods, government collaboration, tech for scalability and compliance challenges, among others. The committee also discussed the recent notification on the Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Amendment Rules, 2025, namely an update to e-form CSR-1, which came into effect from July 14th and requested AMCHAM seek clarity from the government.