IRCON India distributes computers under CSR scheme

As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility scheme, Ircon International Limited, India, distributed computers and computer furniture to five schools in the Matugama district to promote computer education among schoolchildren from low income groups.

S. L. Gupta, General Manager of IRCON, Principal and staff of Maliadewa, Primary School and Minister of Transport Kumar Welgama with a student.

Minister of Transport, Kumara Welgama handed over the computers and the furniture to all five schools recently when the minister along with S L Gupta, General Manager IRCON visited these schools. Students of Maliyadeva Primary School, Pelenda Tamil School, Uskvali Tamil Vidyalaya, Pelenda Maha Vidyalaya and Pelenda Muslim Vidyalaya benefited from this project. All these schools had no access to computer education previously and the students, school management and parents expressed their gratitude to IRCON for their compassionate gesture, thereby making a dream come true for them.

CSR is part of Ircon's core business. Ircon focuses on corporate social responsibility initiatives where there is value creation in the longer term, thus demonstrating its commitment and respect to all its stakeholders. IRCON's social commitments are carried out in five key focus areas namely education, health, community development, generation of self employment and the empowerment of women.

Last year, IRCON completed many projects under their CSR initiatives. These projects included the construction of a 100 sqm community hall at Matugama, a fully furnished Primary Health Centre with brand new ambulance facility at Medawachchiya and Mankulam, a Community Hall at Mannar and waiting benches for passengers at the Amablangoda and Hikkaduwa railway stations.

IRCON International Limited, a subsidiary of Indian Railways, is re-constructing the 252 km long rail link in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka, from Medawachchiya to Talaimannar Pier and from Omanthai to Kankesanthurai for Sri Lanka Railways, funded by the Indian Lines of Credit. On May14, 2013 IRCON handed over the first segment of this prestigious project, namely the completed track from Medawachchiya to Madhu Road (43km) for commercial operations. Presently the local public is enthusiastically using the re-constructed railway line.

General Manager of IRCON, S. L. Gupta said the other sections of the Northern Railway projects were progressing on schedule. "The second segment of the Northern Railway line project from Omanthai to Kilinochchi, covering a distance of 63 km, is scheduled to be opened shortly."

Recently, IRCON also handed over three new locomotives, commissioned and test run, to the Sri Lanka Railways.