Surender Mohan, CMD, NlC, laid the foundation stone and unveiled a plaque for construction of four additional classrooms for NMJ Matriculation School
B Surender Mohan, CMD, NlC, laid the foundation stone and unveiled a plaque for construction of four additional classrooms for NMJ Matriculation School at Block-12, Neyveli.
They have been constructed at an estimated cost of `30 lakh under CSR Scheme. Sarat Kumar Acharya, director (HR) and N Muthu CGM (HR) were also present.
In his address, B Surender Mohan said that education is the prime objective in NlC’s CSR activities and NlC always extended its full support for the same. He directed CSR authorities to take necessary steps to construct these additional classrooms before April 2015 to facilitate the next academic year. CMD, NlC stressed that CSR activities should be time bound and only then it could fulfill its purpose.
The 57-year-old organisation is regularly carrying out various community development works even before the government started to insist upon CSR activities such as water supply for irrigation, laying roads, constructing culverts, school buildings, meeting halls, community halls, buildings for library, Anganwadi and primary health centres. It also supplies drinking water to the nearby villages by sinking bore wells and constructing overhead tanks.
Appreciating NlC’s service to society, the central government, state government and leading NGOs have honoured NlC with prestigious CSR awards. NlC proposes to spend significant share in promoting education as its CSR prime object, that is `10.02 crore which includes general education for youth, special education and providing opportunities for special children, technical education (ITI, mining, diploma), infrastructure and scholarships for wards of SC, ST, OBC employees).
NlC has also taken up construction of 40 toilet blocks in various schools in the peripheral villages of NlC projects, at an estimated cost of `1.43 crore under Clean India movement.