Bongaigaon Refinery undertakes CSR initiatives
Guwahati   30-Mar-2012

During his maiden visit to Bongaigaon Refinery recently, R. S. Butola, Chairman of IndianOil, accompanied by Director (Refineries), R. K. Ghosh and ED, Bongaigaon Refinery, A Saran paid a visit to the neighbouring villages of Bongaigaon Refinery to have a look into its CSR initiatives.

At Birhanggaon, 8 km north of Bongaigaon Refinery, Butola inaugurated the Bodoland Community Hall ( Bodoland Darbar Hall) in presence of eminent citizens of the village and students of neighbouring schools, said a press release.

Prior to the inauguration of the Hall, the Chairman was greeted by a cultural group in their traditional costume with the rhythm of percussion. The Chairman was felicitated with an Aronai by Matin Baumatary, ex- MLA and Chairman of Artfed on behalf of the villagers. It is worth mentioning that with an attempt to promote culture, social harmony and facilitate coaching of students; Bongaigaon Refinery has contributed an amount of Rs 10.20 lakh for construction of the Hall. The Chairman, Director (R) and ED also distributed solar lamps to the students of neighbouring schools at a function held at the Bodoland Darbar Hall. Under CSR initiatives, Bongaigaon Refinery has undertaken a scheme to distribute 200 solar lamps to Class X and XII standard students of 10 villages to provide them lighting facilities for studying during evening hours. The solar lamps costing Rs. 2200 each were procured through the Marketing Division of IndianOil.

At Sonapur village in Chirang district, which has been covered under the Sanitation Project of Bongaigaon Refinery, the Chairman and Director (R) met the beneficiaries of the project. The ladies of the village welcomed the Chairman with traditional songs and felicitated him with an Aronai before inauguration of the scheme. The refinery had undertaken a sanitation project in 10 villages after conducting a base line survey through an NGO called ‘ANT’. It has also constructed 314 sanitation units in 10 villages in two phases for providing hygienic sanitation facilities to the poor villagers.

The IndianOil Chairman, while addressing the gathering in the community hall, expressed his happiness over the commendable performance of the Bongaigaon Refinery team in cultivating its set of core values, i. e. Care, Innovation, Passion and Trust and transmitting them in their activities. He appealed to the beneficiaries to use the infrastructure developed by IndianOil in its true sense so that it can yield positive results. He also called upon the students to pay proper attention to their studies and work hard with honesty to develop themselves to be good citizens in future, the release added.