Under its CSR initiative, the lakhanpur Area of the Mahanadi Coalfields limited (MCl) distributed cycles to all the girls of the Arjun Gupta Girls’ High School, Phatapalli in Jharsuguda distict.
A total of 104 cycles costing Rs 4,160 each were distributed by lakhanpur Area CGM BN Jha in the presence of school president Arjun Gupta and others.
Since this is the only girls’ school in the area, the students mostly belonging to the SC/ST/OBC communities from poor economic backgrounds had to walk a considerable distance to attend the school.
Jha the MCl had earlier provided various kinds of furniture for the school and also have a plan to construct the school’s boundary wall along with toilets and laboratory in the future. The company has also donated a laptop and a projector costing Rs 1.07 lakh to the Tulsi Sahu Madhyamik School, Tilia for audio-visual teaching methods.