Team News Riveting
Raipur, May 25
Ashwini Kumar Tripathy, Regional Executive Direction (Western Region 2 and Head of Operation) of NTPC Limited interacted with the participants of Girl Empowerment Mission (GEM) programme and their guardians at Lara on Wednesday.
Addressing the gathering, Tripathy said the GEM programme was a very good Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative of NTPC Limited, designed for holistic development of girl child of nearby villages of NTPC Power Stations. It is a very good residential programme for better utilization of summer vacation, he said, adding that with refreshment of regular course curriculum, other extracurricular activities like, yoga, sports and games, art, dance, acting, self-defense, and computer are taught to the children.
As a CSR-Community Development activity, GEM is being conducted at Lara in Chhattisgarh’s Raigarh district from 17 May to 12 June 2023. In all, 40 girl children in the age group of 10-11 years from 9 surrounding villages are participating in this residential workshop being organized by NTPC Lara in township. It is a four weeklong free of cost residential training programme. Expert trainers from Hero Mind Mine are providing training to the children. After four weeks of training, the children will present their learnings in the valedictory function.
Girl Empowerment Mission (GEM) is a flagship Corporate Social Responsibility initiative of NTPC Limited, focused on the development of girl child of rural area reading in the government schools of nearby NTPC projects and stations. In the year 2018, as a pilot project this programme was conducted at NTPC Vindhyachal station. Now this initiative has spread to all projects and stations of NTPC Limited across the country.
On this occasion Smt. Uma Tripathy, President (Arpita Mahila Samiiti, WR-II), Diwakar Kaushik, Executive Director (Lara), Akhilesh Singh, GM (Operation & Maintenance), Rajeev Ranjan, GM (Fuel Management), Samarendra Kumar Roy, GM (Operation), Ravi Shankar, GM (Project Construction), Kanhaiya Das, AGM (HR), office bearer of Prerita Mahila Samiti children and their parents were present.
