The NMDC Limited celebrated 150th birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi on Wednesday at its headquarters in Hyderabad and also in all its major projects across the country spread Gandhian values of ahimsa, non-violence and truth along with Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
NMDC’s CMD N. Baijendra Kumar inaugurated the programme at its head quarters in Hyderabad as chief guest. P.K. Satpathy, Director (Production), Amitava Mukherjee, Director (Finance), Alok Kumar Mehta, Director (Commercial), Sumit Deb, Director (Personnel) and other senior officials and employees were also present on the occasion.
While addressing the gathering Kumar emphasised on the need to follow the ethics and values of Mahatma Gandhi. He stressed upon the importance of maintaining clean surroundings and safe environment.
He also appealed to all the employees to discourage the use of “Single Use Plastic”. To discourage use of plastic material, bottles made of copper and jute bags were distributed to the employees on this occasion.
After garlanding and paying floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi, a pledge on “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan” was taken by all the employees.
Later, areas surrounding premises of NMDC head office building Khanij Bhawan at Masab Tank, Hyderabad were cleaned by the employees.