Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD), Central Coalfield Limited (CCL), PM Prasad along with the functional Directors of CCL, a subsidiary of Coal India, felicitated the seven students of CCL Ke Lal and Ladli scheme, who have qualified IIT JEE Advance 2020.
CCL Ke Lal and Ladli established in 2012 is a pioneering Corporate Social Responsibility initiative of CCL in the education sector. Under this program the meritorious students belonging to the downtrodden section of society selected through a state vide test gets free coaching for IIT, lodging, schooling and boarding facilities. The coaching is provided by ex IIT alumni who are working in the company. Since its establishment the scheme has achieved stupendous success and many students of the previous batches are studying in the premier engineering colleges of the country, including IITs, NITs.
Seven students of CCL Ke Laal and Laadli scheme qualified for IIT JEE Advanced. Siddhanth Shekhar from Bokaro topped the field with AIR 4946 while the other successful students are Bittu Kumar, Shubham Kumar Nayak, Aman Kumar, Kishan Kumar, Vicky Kumar and Tabish Hassan. Apart from the hard work and dedication the other common factor which connects the students is that all of them belong to poor segment of society.
Speaking on the occasion Prasad congratulated the students on their success and wished them luck for their future. He acknowledged the effort of the mentors who are involved with the students. Director Personal, Vinay Ranjan stated that company is committed to welfare of the people of Jharkhand. Director Technical (Operation), VK Srivastava, Director Tech (P&P), Bhola Singh, Director Finance, NK Agarwal and CVO, SK Sinha also spoke on the occasion and lauded the children and expressed confidence that in future also the students will bring accolades to the state and their family.
The six faculties are IIT Alumni working in CCL and they were also felicitated on the occasion.
Chief Manager (CSR), K A Sunder, SS Lal along with other employees of the company were present on the occasion. Everybody present wore masks and followed social distancing.