Coal minister inaugurates 'Premashraya'

Union Minister for Coal Piyush Goyal today inaugurated 'Premashraya', a joint CSR activity of the Tata Group and Coal India Ltd, to provide accommodation to outstation patients belonging to economically weaker sections who come for treatment at Tata Medical Centre at Rajarhat.
Coal India Ltd has sanctioned Rs 41.11 crore out of its corporate social responsibility fund to TMC trust to build the facility on land donated by Tata Trusts and Tata companies.
The 10-storied building has enough space to accommodate 525 people including the patients and their relatives.
The building also has palliative care cubicles, child care centres, counselling rooms and an auditorium besides physiotherapy facility.

Goyal said that the CIL would set up five cancer detection centres in the mining belts of five states.
"Coal India will set up five Cancer Detection Centres, one each at the coal mining belts of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh, for the benefit of the people staying in remote areas and facing a lot of troubles to get access to quality treatment for critical ailments like cancer," Goyal said.