The week-long sports carnival kick-started at NTPC Korba witnessed participation of over 3,000 students from 65 of primary, secondary and high schools surrounding the 2,600-MW power station of the NTPC, a Press statement of the public sector power utility informed here on Saturday.
The station conducts the programme every year to tap the sporting talent of nearby schools and subsequently train them in athletics as a mark of its CSR initiative.
In closing ceremony, the local MlA (Korba) Jai Singh Agarwal presented awards and trophies and said that the initiative of the power major must help in holistic development of the younger lot. Ram Das, GM (Operation) felicitated the re-elected MlA on this occasion.