With an aim to increase reading habits among students of Government schools, the Chief Agency Officer (CAO) of Reliance life Insurance Company Manoranjan Sahoo inaugurated a library at Shivgarh in Haridwar on Wednesday.
Addressing the media here on Wednesday, Sahoo said that the company has entered a tie-up with Room to Read, a global non-profit organisation committed to promoting literacy and gender equality in education across Asia and Africa by providing libraries in the schools. He informed that the company under its Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) activities would open more than 100 libraries in the Government schools and intends to reach out mover 10,000 children across the country.
The CAO of Reliance life informed that the company with support of Room to Read would open and maintain libraries in the Government schools across Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra in the first year of the programme. In reply to a question, he said that the company would try to open libraries in the remote and mountainous area of Uttarakhand. He informed that the company officials distributed blankets and medicines last year in the disaster-affected areas of the State. Sahoo claimed that the fixed saving product of the company is getting very good response from across the country. Reliance life Insurance company has 19 branches, over one lakh customers and 1,800 advisors in Uttarakhand.