SIVASAGAR, Nov 26 - The ONGC has introduced �Sahyog Trust� for its Sahyog Yojana to provide financial grant for the welfare of its workforce and their kin who do not have adequate means of support.
Beneficiaries under this scheme include casual, contingent, part-time, ad-hoc, contractual appointees, tenure-based employees, apprentices and trainees engaged by the oil major, besides regular and past employees.
Herusikha Hatimuria, an ambitious but poor 16-year-old girl, is one of the beneficiaries of this scheme. When she was preparing hard for the board exams at Nazira, her father passed away after a brief illness. The grief-stricken girl still appeared in the exams and passed with a good percentage of marks as well. She is now a postgraduate in Biotechnology working in an ICMR-funded project in Dibrugarh. She is aiming to crack the UGC-CSIR scholarship exam and pursue research on vaccines for Japanese Encephalitis.
To pursue her ambition, Herusikha desperately needed some financial assistance and the ONGC�s Sahyog Trust was a godsend for her. She applied for the financial assistance to pursue PG in Biotechnology. The Trust granted her the support and enabled her to earn a living in a dignified way. Herusikha has become a role model for youngsters in the small township.
Like Herusikha, young Rumi Mahato, a contractual pharmacist at Nazira Colony Dispensary since 2007, is also brimming with positive energy now, thanks to ONGC�s benevolence.
Rumi had nurtured a dream of becoming a government employee. Unfortunately, she fell seriously ill owing to a urinary tract infection in 2016. For appropriate surgical intervention, she was referred to a Hyderabad hospital. For her treatment, the ONGC rendered a financial help of Rs 1.10 lakh. Following the treatment at Hyderabad, she has fully recovered and is now preparing hard for various government jobs.
Like Rumi and Herusikha, the Sahyog Trust has supported altogether 1,170 beneficiaries in the year 2020 all over the operational areas of the oil giant in India, incurring an expenditure of Rs 50.10 million.
