Sports benefit both the body and the mind. Studies have shown that sports improve not just mental health, but also motor skills and mind/body connection, often teaching life-skills in the process.
Essar Oil & Gas Exploration & Production Limited (EOGEPL) is committed to support rural communities, especially around its operational area in West Bengal. With sporting infrastructure and awareness often lacking in such remote locations, since early this year EOGEPL has been extending help to the local communities by developing sports infrastructure for its youth.
EOGEPL initiated the development of a playground, construction of goal posts and procurement of footballs and jerseys for the youth of Bishtupur, a small tribal village in the operational area of its CBM project. In what is the first phase of the CSR activity, jerseys and footballs have been provided to 50 individuals.
EOGEPL also supported the Gopalpur Jatiya Sangha Club in organising knockout cricket tournaments at Gopalpur village, Yuba Taranga Club at Jatgoria. The business sponsored the winners & runners-up trophies, along with individual achiever trophies at the tournament.
As part of the company’s initiatives to promote sports and sporting infrastructure, it also constructed the dais at Gopalpur football ground in Gopalpur village of Kanksa Block. The business and the club members jointly organised a foundation stone laying (bhoomipuja) programme at the football ground to mark the commencement of construction work.
It has been humbling for the team to receive the local community’s appreciation towards EOGEPL’s efforts to enable the youth, and encourage them to participate in sports activities.