Indian Oil Day celebrated at Panipat Refinery
Indian Oil Day was celebrated at the Panipat Refinery & Petrochemical Complex (PRPC) with numerous activities. The celebrations kicked off with the inauguration of an exhibition of cloud-based e-health checkup application by B.V Rama Gopal, executive director (I/c), at PRPC Hospital, Township. An ATM facility of the HDFC Bank was also inaugurated at the New Township.
To mark the day as a ‘carbon neutral’ event, a tree plantation drive was held at both the Panipat Refinery and PNC, initiated by V.K. Raizada, executive director (T) and Praveen Nagpal, CGM (I/c) PNC. Further, a blood donation camp was organised in collaboration with the Red Cross Society, Panipat.
Earlier, Rama Gopal inaugurated a cloud-based software package meant for advanced analytics of critical equipment, which works proactively for collecting health information of the equipment which facilitates timely maintenance.
Certain CSR activities were also organised in the village Khora-Kheri, where ED (T) inaugurated a drainage system, a solar power panel of 5 KW and two newly-constructed classrooms at Kachrauli. Six ceiling fans were handed over to the sarpanch of this village and 360 more handed over to the school authorities of Arya Kanya Gurukul Senior Secondary School, village Mor Majra, for the education of girls for their newly-built hostel.
The day ended with felicitations to ex-Indian Oil officials who have attained the age of 75 years, as well as other prizes given away. The Rayat Bahra Group of Institutions’ Patiala campus organised a tree plantation activity on its premises, keeping in mind the ecological and environmental values of the green cover. The institute’s engineering students, along with Dr. Piush Verma, campus director, and S.S. Mahal, director (administration), participated
A programme to help create awareness about the ESI (Employees’ State Insurance) Scheme was held for the officers of the Labour Department, government of Jammu and Kashmir, by officers of the ESI Corporation. It was attended by Dr. Abdul Rashid, labour commissioner, government of J&K, Sh. M K Arya, regional director, ESIC, Dr. Bharat Bhushan, state medical commissioner, ESIC, Ms. Ankur Mahajan, deputy labour commissioner, government of J&K, and Sh. Parveen Moudgil, deputy director, ESIC, with assistant labour commissioners, labour inspectors, officers of EPF and labour inspectors from the Jammu division of the Labour Department participating in it.
Sh. Arya briefed the participants about the extension in the activity. Dr. Verma talked about the massive significance of trees for the environment, calling them the ‘lungs of the planet’.
Chairperson of the group, Gurvinder Singh Bahra, appreciated the drive and said that educational institutions must actively play their part to support such activities. of the ESI Scheme in all the 22 districts of the state, adding that the actual coverage of industrial units and employees had not been as expected. He urged the Labour Department to offer cooperation and support in helping the scheme’s benefits reach its beneficiaries. He also requested officers of the Welfare Board of Building and Other Construction Labour Act in the state to share the data of the construction units registered with them with the ESI department so that the ESI Act could be applied to the workers on these units.
Dr. Abdul Rashid assured that his department would be extending all support to the ESI Corporation in achieving the maximum coverage of units and employees. A similar session would be organised in Srinagar, he informed.