Central Coalfields limited (CCl) celebrated Sarhul to mark the beginning of spring season and New Year at Vichar Manch in Ranchi on Monday evening. The programme started with Aanadi Prathana (prayer),Prabachan and Bhajan.
Employees of the company including women danced to the tune of traditional music. large numbers of employees were present in the packed hall. They were engaged for every minute of scintillating show. Addressing the gathering, Gopal Singh, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, CCl and Chief Guest said that Sarhul was one of the important festivals of Jharkhand.
“Sarhul is related with the environment, in which we worship Saal tree. He said that these trees does not only give us fruit, but much more than that. Our company is related with mining and we should take resolution for development as well as conservation of the nature because without nature, we cannot survive,” he said appealing for plantation to protect the earth.
He also suggested plantation of fruit yielding plants in overburden of CCl and the responsibility of saving of trees to the land owners and the profit earned from fruits also be given to them.
He also congratulated the gathering and organisers for Sarhul festival. He also gave a detailed description of CCl’s Kayakalpa Yojna and asked the villagers for getting benefit from these programmes.
He said that Adivasi youth is internally very strong and if they would be given support, they would do miracle in any field. He cited the example of Bigan Soy, the hockey player of Jharkhand. B Trivedi, GM (Admn) gave a detailed descrition about the importance of Sarhul festival and wished all for happy and prosperous Sarhul.
Panchan Singh Munda,Dhiraj Kumar and Rajnath Mahto conducted the programme. S Bando welcomed all and talked about the importance of Sarhul festival.