Mahanadi Coalfields Limited installed 20 solar lights in village streets

The Village Committee has concented to maintain the solar lights installed by MCL under CSR through Panchayat funds.

Mahanadi Coalfields Limited installed 20 solar lights in village streets
Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (PSU Connect)

Sambalpur: Now the Sun never sets for residents of village Kuisira, under Balinga Gram Panchayat of Hemgir Block in Sundargarh Odisha because Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) has installed 20 solar lights in village streets.

 
Kuisira, with around 600 households, mostly of SCs/STs, will be a model village in the periphery of Basundhra Area in Ib Valley Coalfields of company.  
 
 
Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) is one of the major coal producing company of India. It is one of the eight subsidiaries of Coal India Limited. Mahanadi Coalfields Limited was carved out of South Eastern Coalfields Limited in 1992 with its headquarters at Sambalpur. 
 
 
The Village Committee has concented to maintain the solar lights installed by MCL under CSR through Panchayat funds. As many as seven such peripheral villages have been earmarked in Basundhara fields for providing solar street lights under MCL CSR.

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