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The National Thermal Power Corporation’s Pakri Barwadih Coal Mining Project unit in Barkagaon donated eight ventilators to Hazaribag Medical College and Hospital (HMCH) . Prashant Kashyap, the executive director of NTPC’s Pakri Barwadih project, said, “The NTPC is committed to help the district administration in its fight against Covid-19. We gave ventilators under our CSR policy.”
He added that under the CSR policy, they also provided three of their buildings to the district administration, so that those can be used as quarantine centres. Kashyap said, “Of late, a large number of migrants returned to their native places in Barkagaon and Keredari, and they were quarantined in the three buildings.”
The executive director said they have also donated 35,000 masks, 5,000 sanitisers and hand gloves to the district administration. “Moreover, NTPC staff of Pakri Barwadih Coal Mining Project have in total donated Rs 4 lakhs to provide dry ration to around 2,000 migrants who returned from Mumbai and other red zones.”
