Pehle Indian, Phir Oil!
As the Indian Oil & Gas family celebrates the 65th Indian Oil foundation day, I wish to highlight an often ignored facet of our energy journey and the silent contributions of our energy soldiers in ensuring that India always keeps ticking, never short of petrol, diesel, never short of gas cylinders, come cyclones, storms, landslides or floods.
In the last one year, floods in Assam, unprecedented rains and subsequent landslides in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Kerala, different parts of our country have unfortunately been hit by natural calamities.
While the brave personnel of
@NDRFHQ,
#SDRF supported by other local and central forces worked round the clock to ensure relief and rescue, not many people notice the work in the background that our Oil Companies do on a war footing like
#GoodCorporateCitizens to ensure all possible support.
ATF supplies were rushed to the forward helipads from places as far as Dehradun, Saraswa and Mohali as stranded locals and tourists had to be rescued and evacuated from hilly areas of Uttarakhand by air due to landslides on the roads.
A 24*7 war room was set up
@PetroleumMin staffed by senior officials and our Oil Marketing Companies lead by
@IndianOilcl to ensure that affected people reached their destinations as quickly as possible. Operations to rescue the stranded was done in a
#MissionMode, to ensure that whole of government approach enunciated by PM
@narendramodi Ji, came alive at a time of concern for all of us.
@PMOIndia @AmitShah @JPNadda @PetroleumMin @TheSureshGopi @PIB_India @MIB_India
@pushkardhami @ukcmo @ChairmanIOCL @SdrfUttarakhand @BJP4India @BJP4Keralam @BJP4Himachal