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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is becoming an increasingly important activity to business, nationally and internationally. As globalization accelerates and large corporations serve as global providers, these corporations have progressively recognized the benefits of providing CSR programmes in their various locations. CSR activities are now being undertaken throughout the globe. A two days National Seminar on CSR and Sustainable Development had been conducted with the assistance of University Grants Commission, New Delhi in the Department of Rural Industries and Management, Gandhigram Rural Institute (Deemed University), Gandhigram. The selected papers presented in the UGC sponsored National Seminar on CSR and Sustainable Development are edited as a book in two volumes. The books have been categorized into two sections, namely, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development. The first volume consist of 26 papers focusing on the CSR concepts and the implementation studies. The second volume with 28 papers analyzed about the role of CSR on the sustainable development. With the growing popularity of CSR in the last few years, especially in Europe and more recently in the US, the book will be very useful to the readers and the policy-makers for effective implementation of CSR activities.