Nalco inks pact with Chaurasia trust

The National Aluminium Company (Nalco) has a taken a further step towards promotion of art and culture by signing an MoU with the Vrindaban Gurukul Trust of flute maestro Padma Vibhushan Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia. The MoU aims at providing a platform for industry-culture interface, which would take the cultural heritage of the country and particularly Odisha to the international level.

Nalco CMD Dr Tapan Kumar Chand said, “This industry-culture interaction will boost culturally-adaptive business environment in Odisha which will take Brand Odisha to a higher position across the globe.”

Hariprasad Chaurasia said the Vrindaban Gurukul would effectively collaborate with the Nalco for promoting cultural excellence in Odisha.

As per the MoU, with its theme ‘Cultural Excellence: Cultural Efflorescence’, both Nalco and Vrindaban Gurukul Trust would take special steps for promotion of Indian classical music in general and flute in particular by enabling poor students to undertake quality training so as to make them qualified to earn their livelihood. The Nalco would adopt meritorious students of the Gurukul for their education and also help in the growth of this institution of musical excellence.

The MoU was signed between Nalco Director (HR) BK Thakur and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia.