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SIVASAGAR/GAURISAGAR: Continuing its endeavour as a responsible corporate citizen and a committed partner in the progress of the State, ONGC inaugurated a drinking water project at Dhitaipukhuri High School on Saturday under CSR.
Executive Director and Asset Manager, ONGC, Assam Asset, Sanjeev Kakran, while inaugurating the project at Dhitaipukhuri, emphasized that ONGC had a strong and special emotional connect with the people of Assam and it was always committed for the development of the State. Kakran personally interacted with the students and teachers of Dhitaipukhuri High School about various facilities available in the school and how ONGC could supplement further infrastructural development of the school. He announced financial support of Rs.20,000 for purchasing musical instruments for the students and assured them to extend support towards the existing computer lab of the school for the benefit of the students.
Providing clean and safe drinking water in schools, in and around ONGC’s operational area, is a CSR initiative by ONGC Assam Asset. The project at Dhitaipukhuri High School is implemented by ONGC’s All India OBC & MOBC Employees’ Welfare Association. During the last two years, ONGC’s School Drinking Water Project benefitted more than 15,000 school children in Sivasagar and Charaideo districts.