Corporate social responsibility aims to encourage companies to embrace responsibility for their actions and have a positive impact on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, and other stakeholders. CSR can help communities by working with other organizations to improve quality of life, contributing money through charities, focusing on environmental issues, improving well-being, developing employment opportunities, and creating a sustainable society where business and stakeholders can prosper long-term. The document discusses how CSR can assist with issues like poverty, sanitation, malnutrition, and illiteracy in India by developing the local community.