New Delhi: Public sector undertaking Coal India Ltd (CIL), under the Ministry of Coal, has signed an MoU with the Department of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Assam for strengthening the health infrastructure at Silchar Medical College & Hospital, Silchar, the only medical college and hospital in Barak Valley region of the state. In this new CSR initiative, CIL will contribute Rs 5 crores towards setting up of an ICU facility and medical gas pipeline at Silchar Medical College and Hospital, which will benefit over 40 lakh people of the state.
The MoU was signed in the presence of Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma, Chief Minister of Assam and Health Minister Keshab Mahanta. CIL and its subsidiaries have undertaken several high-investment, high-impact projects to help improve medical facilities across the country.
Notable projects being the Medical College-cum-Hospital at Talcher in Odisha at a cost of Rs 492 crore, ‘Premashraya,’ a home for children and their families seeking cancer treatment at Kolkata for Rs 41 crore, support for bone marrow transplants of children suffering from thalassemia at a cost of Rs 40 crore and a Cardiac Care Centre at Jharsuguda, Odisha for Rs 75 crore.
During the financial year 2020-21, CIL and its subsidiaries have spent Rs 269 crore on Covid-19 relief projects, which is 48 percent of the total CSR expenditure of that year. In addition, CIL has contributed Rs 221 crore to PM CARES fund in FY 2019-20. During the current fiscal CIL is also setting up 32 oxygen plants at 30 hospitals at a cost of Rs 46 crore under 'Mission Praana Vayu.' /BI/
