Dr. Sarat Kumar Acharya, CMD, NLCIL has dedicated a new road/walkway, parking area and pedestrian way laid under CSR initiatives of NLCIL at Visitors Centre, Auroville, Pondicherry on 10-02-2018.
Considering the request of the Auroville Foundation, NLC India Ltd. has laid the paver block road for a length of 950 meters, a parking facility with an area of 2350 Sq.M and a pedestrian way with the length of 140 Mtrs. at a value of 1.1 crores under its CSR activities.
Dr.S.K Acharya in his address said, NLCIL management as part of its organization’s motto Creating wealth for Wellbeing’’ it has taken this opportunity to serve Auroville Foundation, which is practicing and promoting sustainable, environmental, social and spiritual living among human kind with the concept of an ideal township devoted to an experiment in human unity.
Shri R.Vikraman, Director (HR), NLCIL felicitated the occasion senior officials of CSR and employees from NLCIL present during the function.
Shri Srinivas Murthy, Under-Secretary, Auroville Foundation, Shri Carel Thieme, Smt. Nicole, Working Committee thanked the NLCIL management for showing generosity and giving full encouragement by providing infrastructure facilities to the concept of Auroville – an ideal township devoted to an experiment in human unity.
Every day, hundreds of visitors from all over India and the world come to visit Auroville, “the City the Earth needs” which was founded by the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram almost 50 years ago, on 28 February 1968. Men and women from 54 nations have settled permanently in Auroville where they work towards realizing the goal of Human Unity as envisioned by the Mother.