HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, Oct 18: Numaligarh Refinery Ltd (NRL), a public sector oil company in Assam, has partnered with the Akshaya Patra Foundation as a part of its CSR initiative and donated ten customised food delivery vehicles to the foundation’s kitchen in Jorhat, Assam.
The vehicle was flagged off at Akshaya Patra’s Kandi kitchen in the presence of Biswajit Bora, DGM, NRL and Bishamohan Buragohain, senior manager HR, NRL. On behalf of Akshaya Patra, Janardhana Dasa, unit president and Durgesh Gupta, operations manager were present at the flag-off event.
Bishamohan Buragohain, senior manager HR, NRL and the team, were very happy and expressed that they were proud to be associated with the work of Akshaya Patra Foundation.
Acknowledging the support, Janardhana Dasa, unit president, Akshaya Patra, said, “We are thrilled about this partnership with Numaligarh Refinery Ltd (NRL) and immensely grateful to them for donating us the new delivery vehicles. Our collaboration with NRL for the school feeding programme started over 3 years ago and has just strengthened with time. We hope it will continue to flourish as we believe that such partnerships play a crucial role in helping us reach out to over 1.8 million children across the country every school day.”
He further added, “We are also thankful to the Ministry of Education, government of India and the government of Assam for providing us the opportunity to serve the children.”
NRL has been supporting Akshaya Patra’s Mid-Day Meal (MDM) Programme implementation for the last 3 years. In the year 2019, they had donated two food delivery vehicles to the foundation’s kitchen in Guwahati, Assam.
