Nearly 10,000 deprived people with orthopaedic disabilities in Angul, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur and Sundargarh of Odisha will be provided assistance and apparatus by Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) at a cost of Rs 5 crore under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

In this view, MCL has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Artificial Limb Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO), a Central Public Sector Enterprise under the administrative control of Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment for providing support and appliances to the disadvantaged people with Orthopaedic condition in its fourth operational district in Odisha.

The memorandum was signed on Tuesday afternoon by Mr A K Pandey, General Manager (CSR), MCL and Mr RK Mathur, DGM and in-charge AAPC- Bhubaneswar (ALIMCO) in the presence of Dr DR Sarin, CMD, ALIMCO, Kanpur and Mr B B Mishra, General Manager (Civil), In-charge MCL office, Bhubaneswar.

MCL is the highest contributor to Odisha under CSR and is a subsidiary of Coal India Limited.