The IndianOil on Monday donated Rs2 crore to the lV Prasad Eye Institute (lVPEI) as corporate social responsibility (CSR) contribution for construction and setting up of an ‘IndianOil-lVPEI Centre for Rural Eye Health’ designed to provide solutions to blindness in rural areas of the State.
Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan handed over the letter of approval of the donation to lVPEI vice-chairman Tara Prasad Das in the presence of IndianOil top officials. Das said the fund would be used for developing infrastructures like building, library and vision complex.
He said three rural eye centres would come up in first phase in the State. The institute’s first centre would come up in tribals-dominated Rayagada district. Its construction would be completed very soon. The second one would be established at Rajgangpur in Sundargarh district while the third one would come up in Angul district.
For the third rural centre, the Union Minister said, the National Aluminium Company limited (Nalco) would help the institute.