Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal today inaugurated Vivekananda Kendra NRL School of Nursing here.
The nursing school would provide nursing skills to under-privileged girl students in the vicinity of Numaligarh Refinery in upper Assam.
Sonowal said that the VKNRL School of Nursing is a way towards paying tribute to the 855 martyrs who sacrificed their lives during the six-year long Assam Agitation.
"Named after the great son of the nation Swami Vivekananda," Sonowal said the school will be an effort to materialise the maxim of Vivekananda "Service to man is Service to God".
He advised the students of the nursing school to imbibe human values, empathy and compassion to serve the people.
He also called upon the trustees of VKNRL School of Nursing to render quality and value-based education so that the school becomes an epitome of 'sustainability with quality'.
Sonowal asked the people to take benefits of the state government's health schemes like Chief Minister's Free Diagnostic services, Atal Amrit Abhiyan, etc.
The nursing school set up by NRL at a cost of Rs 26 crore as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility will be operated by VKNRL Nursing School Trust which has been created with trustees from Vivekananda Kendra and Numaligarh Refinery Limited that was set up on April 22, 1993.
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