Guwahati, May 27 (PTI): Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) has facilitated group insurance for 1,129 forest staff of the Kaziranga National Park with the National Insurance Company to secure their future.
NRL, as part of its corporate social responsibility has facilitated this step as the lives of the forest staff are often fraught with danger from wild animal attacks and poachers, an NRL official release said on Monday.
The Group Personal Accident Insurance policy will provide an insured sum of Rs five lakh per insured person/ nominee for death or bodily injury resulting solely and directly from accident caused by external violent and visible means.
Weekly benefit up to Rs five thousand for maximum 104 weeks has also been provided for temporary disablement and the insured amount can be directly claimed from National Insurance Company Limited at Golaghat.
This policy will be effective from April one this year for a term of one year initially and would be further extended on and yearly basis.
KNP Director P Sivakumar said that NRL is a success story in business enterprise while KNP is one in conservation efforts of wildlife and with both entities working and complementing each other, greater things can be achieved.
NRL Managing Director S K Barua said that since its very inception, the refinery's identity is entwined with KNP as both are adjacent to each other in location and therefore reaching out to KNP has been a natural recourse.
He hoped there would be more such meaningful collaborations in the future.
KNP Divisional Forest Officer Rohini Ballav Saikia thanked NRL for the noble gesture which was much needed for the welfare of the forest guards.
He also apprised the forest guards present on the nitty gritties of the scheme.
The Group Personal Accident Insurance policy was ceremonially handed over to the KNP Director by NRL's MD in the presence of KNP officials, rangers, forest guards, NRL officials and National Insurance Company officials at Kaziranga National Park.
