Bhairahawa, Dec. 7
Arghakhanchi
Cement Pvt. Ltd., a cement company, is constructing a health centre in Siyari
Rural Municipality, in Rupandehi District.
Minister for
Agriculture and Livestock Development Ghanashyam Bhusal laid the foundation
stone of the building, where the local body is set to operate a 5-bed hospital.
The Company's Director Rajesh Kumar Agrawal said that the company had also
invested on the health facility as part of its corporate social responsibility.
"We want
to support the local people living around the factory area, providing them
healthcare centre as well as employment opportunities. Since there was not a
single good health facility there, we have decided to make one," he said.
The building
would be completed within a year and handed over to the Rural Municipality,
according to Agrawal.
Commending the
company for its social works, Chair of Siyari, Ayodhya Tharu, said that the concept of the healthcare
centre was a model programme. "It will help us in delivering quality
health service to the people in the area," he said.
The company said
that it had been supporting the local body in education, sanitation, food and
road construction in the past as well.
Last year, the
company had donated Rs. 5.1 million to the Coronavirus Prevention and Treatment
Fund created by the Lumbini Provincial Government. It had also supported Siyari
with Rs. 200,000 in cash, and Tinaun and Machagadhi Rural Municipality in Palpa
district, where the company's limestone mine is located, with relief materials
worth Rs. 2 million.
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