Archive · 3 Oct 2026
NLC Marks Gandhi Jayanthi With Green Drives and Community Events
NLC India Limited held events in Neyveli to remember Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri.
The celebrations included songs, prayers, and cultural performances.
One hundred students joined a rally about cleanliness.
The company also thanked 76 sanitation workers for their work.
Children received educational kits and sweets.
Company chairman Dr. Prasanna Kumar Acharya spoke about Gandhi’s ideas, including cleanliness and caring for the environment.
NLC India Limited and the Cuddalore District Administration also held a tree-seed planting drive.
They sowed 5,000 Palmyra palm seeds at the Mine-IA afforestation area.
NLC India Limited held Gandhi Jayanthi events across its Neyveli premises and also commemorated Lal Bahadur Shastri.
Company leaders opened the celebrations by garlanding Mahatma Gandhi’s statue, with Neyveli Ladies Club members singing Ramdhun.
A Swachhata Rally included 100 Jawahar Science College students; 76 sanitary workers were felicitated.
The programme featured multi-faith readings, cultural performances on non-violence and truth, and educational kits for 20 children.
NLC India Limited and the Cuddalore District Administration led the sowing of 5,000 Palmyra palm seeds at Mine-IA.
- Who
- NLC India Limited, its leaders and community participants, and the Cuddalore District Administration.
- What
- Gandhi Jayanthi commemorations, community activities, and an environmental initiative involving the sowing of 5,000 Palmyra palm seeds.
- When
- On Gandhi Jayanthi, described in the article as taking place “today”; no calendar date is given.
- Where
- NLC India Limited’s Neyveli premises and the Mine-IA afforestation area in Cuddalore district.
- Why
- To commemorate Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri, promote cleanliness and community participation, and support ecological restoration.
- Organiser
- NLC India Limited (NLCIL)
- Commemorations
- Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary and Lal Bahadur Shastri’s birth anniversary
- Rally participants
- 100 students from Jawahar Science College
- Sanitary workers felicitated
- 76 Safai Mitras
- Children given educational kits and sweets
- 20 elementary school children
- Seeds sown
- 5,000 Palmyra palm seeds
- Seed-sowing location
- Mine-IA afforestation area