The Ministry of Mines, at present has three Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) namely, National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO), Bhubaneswar (Orissa), Hindustan Copper Limited (HCL), Kolkata (West Bengal) and Mineral Exploration Corporation Limited (MECL), Nagpur (Maharashtra). The PSUs have taken up a number of activities like community education programmes, facilitating availability of drinking water, repair and development of approach roads of surrounding areas, arranging health awareness programmes, school health programmes, and medical camps in rural areas, for upliftment of the community in and around their townships as part of their social responsibility.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Coal & Mines, Dr. Dasari Narayana Rao, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
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