Director (Pers), CCL, PVKR Mallikarjuna Rao, visited the smart classroom, situated on the premises of Gandhinagar Colony, before resuming classes for 12th standard. Online classes continued during the Covid-19 pandemic and offline classes are scheduled to start shortly. CCL Ke Lal and Laadli is a pioneering CSR initiative of CCL, the Jharkhand-based subsidiary of Coal India in the education sector.
Under this scheme the meritorious students belonging to the downtrodden sections of society selected through a statewide test get free coaching for IIT, lodging, schooling and boarding facilities. Ex-IIT alumni, who are regular employees of the company impart education to them. Since its establishment, the scheme has achieved stupendous success and many students of the previous batches are studying in the premier engineering colleges of the country, including IITs, NITs. Many Students are also working with leading corporate sector companies.
Rao, who is Director (Pers), BCCL and has been given additional charge of CCL, also visited the hostel for students of CCL Ke Lal and Laadli scheme and inspected the facilities available. He instructed the authorities to augment the facilities available in the hostel so that students do not face any difficulty during studies. Shri Rao interacted with the faculties and congratulated them for their sincere efforts and the success of the students.
Prior to it, Director, CCL/BCCL met Baban Rawat, Vice President, National Commission for cleanliness workers, which is acting as a Non-Statutory body of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.