MLA lauds refinery’s efforts to generate self-employment at grassroot level

Tribune News Service

Bathinda,October 22

The Guru Gobind Singh Oil Refinery distributed 354 cycles among girl students, studying in Class 10 to 12, in Government School at Rama Mandi.

Girls from adjacent 14 villages, including Phullokhari, Ramsara, Tarkhanwala, Giana, Sekhu and Hassu, are studying in this school.

The refinery also distributed 3,510 education kits among the students of Class 1 to 12 in 17 government schools of nine villages — Rama Mandi, Raman Village, Phullokhari, Kanakwal, Giana, Ramsara, Tarkhanwala, Hassu and Naurang village.

Jeet Mohinder Singh Sidhu, MLA Talwandi Sabo, distributed 500 sewing machines among ladies of various 25 villages of Talwandi Sabo Sub-division.

Sidhu applauded the efforts of the refinery and said it was helping the needy people of the region at the grassroot level.

He appreciated the self-employment training center being run by the refinery at Phullokhari village. He appealed to the youth to take full benefit of the various self-employment training centers of refinery. In these centers, various courses related to air condition and refrigerator repairing, cutting and tailoring, mobile and home appliances are being run.

The refinery conducted a base-line survey of the villages in the vicinity with the help of sarpanch and panchayats of the villages to identify the major issues. It was found that a number of families in the villages did not have toilets in their houses.

So it was decided to provide fabricated toilets under the Swachh Bharat initiative to ensure open defecation-free houses in the surroundings of the refinery.

The first set of toilets under this initiative was also distributed to the beneficiaries by the MLA and more toilets would be distributed shortly.