State-owned ONGC, as part of its corporate social responsibility effort, has installed Water ATMs in big hospitals in Tripura to provide pure drinking water to the patients and their care-takers, an official said here on Thursday. “We have installed Water ATM in Agartala Government Medical College and Gobinda Ballav Pant Hospital, Regional Cancer Hospital and Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital so far to provide pure drinking water round-the-clock …
The women inmates of the Nagpur Central Jail have started making eco-friendly sanitary napkins under a rehabilitation plan aimed at their skill development and empowerment, said a National Commission for Women official today. The 150-year-old jail has several programmes aimed at developing the prisoners’ skills to equip them with livelihood options after their release from …
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Madurai: P Jayammal of Othaveedu village, a newly-added area of the city corporation near Karuppayurani, and her family members have been defecating in the open as they did not have toilet facility in their house. But henceforth, the family will use a toilet, thanks to the joint efforts of the Madurai corporation and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited.
Aurangabad: The Aurangabad zilla parishad has decided to switch to solar power for its schools, especially those at distant locations, to beat the towering electricity bills. At present, nearly 1,617 of the 2,190 ZP schools are without power for defaulting on bill payment. The ZP administration has decided to shift to solar power to overcome the perennial problem …
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Takes a dig at industrialists for undertaking CSR activities near their factories; says ‘those are compulsions, not CSR’. Union minister for Railway, Coal, Finance and Corporate Affairs Piyush Goyal on Monday urged the industry captains to undertake their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities in the 115 aspirational districts, some of which are Maoist-hit, so as …
