The Odisha Power Generation Corporation (OPGC) launched the ‘Advanced DTP Programme’ to impart skill development training to local youths as a CSR activity.
OPGC MD Indranil Dutta inaugurated the programme launched by OPGC CSR team in collaboration with the ‘Sahaj’, a voluntary organisation.
About 40 local boys and girls have enrolled for the programme. The course is of six months duration and it would run at the OPGC vocational training centre located in the Ib Thermal campus.
Dutta advised the enrolled students to take the course seriously as it has the potential to make them self-sufficient in future. CSR chief Manoj Das coordinated the event. OPGC CSR Manager Pratap Moharana, Madhumita Prasad, Gatikrushna Panda and Parbinder Singh were present.
Earlier in the day, sports materials were distributed to local youths and schoolchildren as part of the CSR initiative called ‘Rural Sports Training Project’.
Girls’ football team of the Jawaharlal High School, Adhapara were given sports equipment like Jersey, shorts, football, football net and shoes. Four out of a team of 15 members of the school has been selected to represent the district in the upcoming State-level football tournament.
Similarly 15 girls of the Arjun Gupta Girls’ High School, Phatapali were given football and volleyball equipment. Besides, two youth clubs, Bapuji Jubak Sangh of Dalgaon and Binapani Jubak Sangh of Banharpali, were provided with sets of cricket equipment.