Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting promotes integrating ESG into corporate compliance, disclosure practices and capacity building.
Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting (BRSR) is presented as a practical reporting and corporate-governance mechanism aligned with international frameworks to advance Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) integration. The workshop focused on materiality assessment, disclosure of carbon footprints, occupational health and safety reporting, social policies, and linkages between BRSR and national voluntary guidelines. Participants were urged to embed ESG within core compliance practices and to use BRSR for risk mitigation, reputation management and value creation, supported by capacity building and technical guidance.

InvIT unit and manager equity acquisitions cleared, permitting foreign pension-plan controlled entities to increase infrastructure holdings.
Approval concerns acquisitions by OTPP-controlled entities: additional unit holdings in Highways Infrastructure Trust and an equity stake in Highway Concessions One Private Limited. The Target Trust is a SEBI-registered InvIT owning road assets and HC One is its investment manager performing investment-decision and oversight functions under the InvIT Regulations. The transactions are separate combinations involving unit acquisition in the Trust and equity acquisition in the investment manager, and CCI approval has been granted with a detailed order to follow.

Competition approval for acquisition of minority stake in TVS Credit by PI Opportunities Fund and affiliated individual investors.
The Competition Commission of India cleared the proposed acquisition of a minority shareholding in TVS Credit Services Limited by PI Opportunities Fund I Scheme II, a SEBI registered Category II Alternative Investment Fund owned and controlled by Premji Invest, together with certain individual acquirers who are senior management, partners and consultants of Premji Invest and its affiliates. The target is an India incorporated retail focused NBFC NDSI engaged in vehicle and consumer lending. A detailed CCI order will follow.

Failure to honour summons leads to arrest under non-bailable warrant in SFIO demonetisation probe and subsequent production before court
SFIO arrested a Chartered Accountant for failure to honour summons issued in connection with prosecution arising from an SFIO investigation into a company's conduct during the demonetisation period. The arrest was effected pursuant to a non-bailable arrest warrant issued by the Special Court; the individual was produced before that court and remanded to judicial custody.

Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting mandates ESG disclosures by top listed companies; workshop advanced implementation and digital reporting tools.
The BRSR framework is a mandatory ESG disclosure regime requiring the largest listed companies to report performance under the nine principles of the National Guidelines for Responsible Business Conduct; it serves as a compliance, transparency and investor information mechanism. A collaborative IICA-UNICEF workshop focused on practical implementation: effective disclosures, digital reporting tools and portals, integrating CSR/ESG into brand and risk management, and operational policies such as family friendly measures to enable consistent BRSR compliance.