Project Ujala launched for electrification at Lanjigarh

The Pioneer,23 Feb,2008


Project Ujala, a scheme under the community social responsibility of Vedanta Aluminium Limited, Lanjigarh, for electrification of peripheral villages of Lanjigarh to provide light to all the houses and streets of the villages of the project area, was inaugurated by former Indian Hockey captain Dilip Tirkey.
The inauguration ceremony was held at Basantapada village near Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district. The project Ujala will cost Rs 3 crore and will benefit 20,000 locals. Local BJD MLA Balabhadra Majhi hoped that the project would help to enhance living standard of the villages and make villagers identified with change happening through industrialisation.
MLA Majhi also highlighted State Government's industrialisation drive. Former Indian Hockey Captain Tirkey, however, expressed his happiness about all the community development programmes being operated by Vedanta in and around Lanjigarh and urged the local people to take full benefit of these programmes and get ahead in life. This project will be operational in two phases.
The work for the first phase has been launched to electrify 18 immediate peripheral villages while in the second phase 32 more peripheral villages will be taken up.
Lanjigarh Block Chairperson and wife of MLA Majhi, Srimati Majhi, GM (HR) of Vedanta Sailendra Singh, VP (Finance) Dinesh Mantri were among those present and spoke on the occasion.