A business that makes a profit while benefiting the area around them is a Rising Business.
1 Rising Shops
- Does not encroach into any public property such as a footpath
- Does not encourage illegal parking and keeps the front of his/her shop free for pedestrians
- Does not use banned plastic bags and encourages customers to bring their own bags
- Pays a fair wage to the staff at the shop with cognizance of the staff’s other needs including medical assistance and childrens education
- Does not employ under-age workers
- Always provides a real bill
- Does not bribe anyone and especially not govt officials or the police
- Follows the law always
- Does not discriminate
- Disposes garbage responsibly
- Reduces waste generation
- Is respectful of public property
- Understands that Street Dogs are to be managed by neutering, feeding and vaccination and works towards that
2 Rising Malls
- Does not bribe to build the mall
- Does a traffic study and works towards easing the traffic problems around it
- Follows the law and does not encroach
- Disposes waste responsibly
- Contributes to the welfare of the community
- Supports bus stops in the vicinity to encourage usage of public transport
3 Rising Corporations
- Provides group transportation and flex hours for employees to minimize traffic issues
- Regularly trains drivers and employees driving their own vehicles to ensure they follow traffic rules
- Provides sufficient parking for all vehicles that are being utilized to transport their employees and does not use public space for the same
- Works with the Traffic police and area residents to work through traffic clogs their employees create
- Works with the government to improve public transport to the area they are in
- Segregates waste and disposes responsibly
- Conducts voter registration drives and encourages voting on the day of elections