Pune (Voice News Service): Maharashtra Natural Gas Company Limited (MNGL), a city gas distribution company based out of Pune, organised a Blood Donation Camp today at its Baner Head Office to mark the occasion of Ganesh Festival.
The Blood Donation Camp was organised in association with Jankalyan Blood Centre, Pune, which works for thalassemia & cancer patients. About 75 employees including the members of the senior management of MNGL, registered their overwhelming participation in the camp to donate blood. This blood donation drive collected approx. 50 number of blood bags, which were donated to Jankalyan Blood Centre. The Blood Donation Camp was part of MNGL’s Community Welfare initiative.
Sh. Deepak Sawant, Managing Director, MNGL said, “We, being a caring and responsible organisation towards people, always aim at providing timely aid to people, may be through our CNG and PNG supplying capabilities or activities such as Blood Donation. ‘Blood’ is precious and with a small contribution from the entire MNGL family, we thought to support the people who are in dire need of blood. This Ganesh Festival has been unique for us due to such a people – centric healthcare initiative.”
Sh. Sanjay Sharma, Director (Commercial) MNGL, mentioned that this initiative encouraged many employees to donate blood for the first time & said that he was delighted to see young generation to lead & shoulder the responsibility towards society.
Maharashtra Natural Gas Limited is a joint venture between Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) with equity participation from Government of Maharashtra through MIDC and Indraprastha Gas Limited.
MNGL currently supplies CNG and PNG to the Geographical of Pune, Pimpri – Chinchwad including adjoining areas of Hinjewadi, Chakan and Talegaon, Valsad (except the area already authorised), Dhule, Nashik, Sindhudurg Districts in Maharashtra and Ramnagar in Karnataka.
