CMD, CCL Gopal Singh on Saturday felicitated parents of students of ‘CCL Ke Lal and Ladli’ whose wards cracked national-level IIT examinations as well as motivated current batch IIT aspirant students, who are studying in DAV Gandhinagar in class 11 and 12.
“CCL ke Lal and Ladli’ is one of the welfare measures taken by the coal firm. Under this scheme, the company has been providing opportunities to the talented, hardworking and meritorious students of the State. Students are selected after class 10 on merit basis and are provided free-coaching for engineering examinations, schooling, lodging and boarding by CCL.
Apart from the CMD, Director(Pers) R S Mahapatro, Jitendra Kumar, Akhilesh Kumar, NamanShrivastava, Anubhav Khare, Om Prakash and Dev Prakash Singh- all are teaching faculty, who themselves are passouts from IIT. The CMD lauded efforts of all faculties who teach students of CCL Ke Lal & Laadli apart from performing company’s routine work. During the programme, few parents like Phuleswar Sahu, Suresh Kumar Rai, Harendra Kr Singh and others expressed their gratitude to the company for such noble initiative.
Addressing the parents, Singh said, “You have inculcated good culture since childhood among your children that led them to be selected in CCL’s scheme.” He further urged the parents to develop good habits among their children as each of them has potential to crack IIT. Talking to IIT aspirants, Singh said, “God has given all of you immense potential to crack any national-level examination and you should honour your parents by cracking IIT exams. He further said that children of Jharkhand have immense potential and they are proving in sports fields at national level competitions. He narrated the example of JSSPS sports cadets, who won individual trophies in the national-level competition in wrestling that was held in Delhi recently by defeating players of Punjab and Harayana state.
Parents of such CCL keLal and Ladli were felicitated whose sons and daughters have cracked IIT examinations. Two caretakers of CCL keLal and Ladli- Devashish and Sahina were felicitated.