ONGC implements two welfare projects at Betul in MP

Betul: Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) supported two projects for the welfare of people in Betul in Madhya Pradesh. The projects were launched by Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Steel Dharmendra Pradhan on 18 January 2021. The Minister laid the foundation stone of a hostel-cum-training facility for farmers at Bharat Bharati Shiksha Samiti; he also launched the distribution of Solar Chulhas to poor households in Betul, which is being developed as a solar village.

ONGC has got solar chulhas designed and developed through IIT Bombay, at an investment of around ninety lakh rupees. The Minister launched the distributed of 86 Solar PV Cook-Stove to poor households in the district: 74 were distributed to households of Bacha Gram Panchayat in Ghodadongri Tehsil of Baitul District, 12 in Jamthi village school. 

The two-floor (G+1) hostel-cum-training facility, being built at an investment of around three crore rupees, will be used to train poor farmers in organic farming.

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