NTPC pledged to intensify its community development programmes in the days to come as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) activity. There are many programmes, which will be launched very soon. This was revealed by the Executive Director of NTPC’s Pakri-Barwadih-Keredari Coal Project Ravindra Singh Rathi and General Manager of NTPC’s North Karanpura Super Thermal Power Project Raghavendra Kumar Singh at Barkagaon and Tandwa on Wednesday.
Talking with the newsmen at Barkagaon ED Rathi said: “We will develop the under-construction R&R Colony as a model village. We have planned to build four schools, one hospital, one shopping centre, one community hall in this colony. The inner roads of this colony will be 15m wide and electric and water supply connection will be available to every household.” He also said that under Swachchh Bharat Abhiyan, we have planned to build 500 toilets in schools at Barkagaon and Keredari blocks.
For the benefit of students, we are going to start coaching centres for Class X and Class XII students. Besides this, we will launch mobile education van especially for the students of science soon, added Rathi. He announced that for the BPl families, NTPC will soon provide home solar light facility. Mobile medical van facility is also in our list of activity which will be provided very soon.
Rathi said that in future, we are going to increase the number of training centres for sewing and cutting, motor driving and computer etc. On the other hand, General Manager of NKSTPP Raghavendra Kumar Singh announced many gifts from their organisation for the villagers of the affected area. In the programme of distribution of tricycles to differently-abled people of five villages of Tandwa block which is coming under the plan area, Singh said, “They are planning to start an ITI here to train the youths and it will started by May-June this year.”
GM RK Singh said that for the benefit of students, they have requested the Vananchal College administration to start science stream in the college and they have already stepped up in this direction. A shopping centre will also to be built here in which shops will be allotted to the persons of affected villages.In his address, he also informed that under the Swachchh Bharat Abhiyan started by PM Modi, NKSTPP is going to construct 2,400 toilets in different schools of Chatra district. He also repeated his pledge to make the area polythene free and appealed everyone present there to help them in this mission.