Oil CMD visits Ushapur High school in Dibrugarh
Oil CMD visits Ushapur High school in Dibrugarh Photo: Northeast Now

Utpal Bora, Chief Managing Director (CMD), OIL visited Ushapur High School in Dibrugarh as part of Swachhta Hi Seva awareness program.

As part of Government of India’s Swachhata Hi Seva campaign, Utpal Bora, CMD, OIL accompanied by his wife Parul Bora along with Pranjit Deka, Executive Director (HR&A), OIL and other officers of OIL visited Ushapur High School located in the heart of OIL’s operational area in Ushapur in Dibrugarh District on Monday.

As a part of this awareness drive, Hygiene Kits were distributed to all the students. In his address to the students and teachers, Utpal Bora highlighted the efforts undertaken by Oil India Limited to spread awareness on the Swachhata Hi Seva campaign launched by Prime Minister on September 15 and is scheduled till October 2, 2018.

He urged the students to adopt cleanliness a the lack of cleanliness is one major cause of disease. He emphasized on the need to build a culture where each of us take pride in keeping ourselves, our homes, schools, work place clean. He remarked that this is the best way that one can pay homage to the father of our nation, Mahatma Gandhi.

Earlier Ajit Baruah, Headmaster of the Ushapur High school expressed his gratitude to OIL for implementing various developmental projects in the Ushapur area at large under its CSR. He mentioned the various developmental initiatives implemented by OIL in the school like computer education, teacher training, supplementary teaching in English, science and maths under OIL’s CSR. He also thanked OIL management for sanctioning an auditorium in the school, the construction of which has already begun.

Avik Chakraborty is Northeast Now Correspondent in Dibrugarh. He can be reached at: [email protected]