Around 10,000 needy people with orthopaedic disabilities in Angul, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur and Sundargarh districts would be provided aids and appliance by the Mahanadi Coalfields limited (MCl) at a cost of Rs 5 crore under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative.
For this purpose, the MCl has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Artificial limb Manufacturing Corporation of India (AlIMCO), a Central Public Sector Enterprise under the administrative control of Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment. The beneficiaries would be from the MCl’s aforesaid four operational districts.
The MoU was signed here on Monday by MCl General Manager (CSR) AK Pandey and In-Charge and DGM of AAPC-Bhubaneswar (AlIMCO) DGM RK Mathur in the presence of AlIMCO CMD, Kanpur, DR Sarin and MCl General Manager (Civil) In-Charge, Bhubaneswar Office, BB Mishra.