The first event under the initiative was held in Ajmer as part of the company’s flagship CSR programme and it witnessed the gathering of more than 400 people, including the families of truck drivers.
New Delhi: Castrol India has launched the Family Connect initiative to spread road safety awareness among families of truck drivers, the company has informed in a release.
The oil and lube manufacturer will open two new Castrol Sarathu Mitra centres in Lucknow and Bengaluru shortly. With these, the number of such centres will be seven in total.
These centres are aiming to train and upskill over 6,000 truck drivers in the next 12 months. As the company claims, this programme aims to impact a total of 150,000 truck drivers in India by 2020.
The first event under the initiative was held in Ajmer as part of the company’s flagship CSR programme and it witnessed the gathering of more than 400 people, including the families of truck drivers.
Commenting on this initiative, Omer Dormen, Managing Director, Castrol India, said, “With an aim to empower people who matter most to the trucker, we have launched Castrol Family Connect to raise the awareness quotient of the families of truck drivers on safe driving. We hope that this will help influence right driving behaviours amongst the truckers, so that they continue to keep India moving, but more safely.”
Date: November 11, 2019
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