NLCIL lays paver block road for Auroville under CSR initiatives

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NLCIL carried out Bhoomi Pooja for laying of new road/walkway under its CSR initiatives at Visitors Centre, Auroville, Pondicherry on 15-11-2017. Everyday, 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.

The present stretch of dirt road receives heavy traffic and gets damaged during the rainy season, causing inconvenience to the public and the road users.

Considering the request of the Auroville Foundation, NLC India Ltd. has taken up the work of providing and laying paver blocks for roads, roadways and walkways for a length of 900 metres and a value of 1.1 crores under its CSR activities.

To commence the above works Shri R. Mohan, CGM / CSR performed the  Bhoomi Pooja  at Auroville Township, Pondicherry, on 15/11/2017 for the construction of new road/walkway, paver blocks for roads at Visitors Centre, Auroville. It was attended by officials Shri Peter James, GM / CSR, Shri. Raghava Reddy, CM/CSR., Shri B.N Unni krishnan, ADGM / CSR from NLC India Ltd. as well as Shri Srinivas Murthy, Under-Secretary, Auroville Foundation, Shri Carel Thieme, Smt. Nicole Working Committee, and Auroville Visitors Centre members.

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