As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative to create self-employment opportunities for economically disadvantaged women, Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE) NLC India Ltd distributed 2,000 sewing machines worth ₹1.2 crore to women in Thittakudi.
At a function organised in Kazhudur village near Thittakudi, Minister for Labour Welfare and Skill Development C.V. Ganesan, handed over the motorised sewing machines to women beneficiaries in the presence of NLCIL chairman-cum-managing director Prasanna Kumar Motupalli.
Mr. Motupalli said that work on desilting of water bodies and the construction of a check dam in Thittakudi at an estimated cost of ₹18.40 crore was underway. This has alsos been taken up under NLCIL’s CSR initiative.
NLCIL has spent around ₹300 crore in the past 10 years, to the benefit of Cuddalore district, he said.
NLCIL Director (Human Resources) Samir Swarup and head of Sri Venkateshwara Group of Institutions, M. Venkatesan also participated.
