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GAIL flags off distribution of Long Lasting Insecticide Nets
GAIL (India) Limited
(New Delhi, January 20, 2006)

New Delhi, January 20, 2006 Shri Proshanto Banerjee, Chairman and Managing Director, GAIL (India) Limited flagged off the distribution of Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLIN) by handing over LLINs to ten beneficiaries from Sundernagri Resettlement Area, Shahdara. Directors of GAIL and Shri Arindam Chaudhuri, President, Great India Dream Foundation, an NGO was also present on the occasion.

Under its corporate social responsibility programmes, GAIL is distributing Long Lasting Insecticide Nets. Initially Delhi, Chennai and Jaisalmer have been identified.

For creating awareness, GAIL had also sponsored awareness programme through street plays, door to door campaign, posters, banners etc., apart from launching a campaign for taking precautions against this deadly disease.

Speaking on the occasion, Shri Proshanto Banerjee re-emphasised the company’s focus on CSR activities. He said that distribution of LLIN is a modest attempt of GAIL under its CSR programme to check the menace of mosquito spread disease such as malaria, dengue etc.

GAIL is promoting special mosquito nets made from one of its flagship products G-Lex. The bed net is made from High density polythethylene (HDPE) impregnated with a potent anti-malarial insecticide. The insecticide released at a controlled rate, proves fatal for the mosquitoes while the net remains effective for at-least 5 years. The use of this technology is not restricted to mosquito nets only. It can be used as window guards also. While contact with the net proves fatal for the mosquito, it has been clinically approved for humans as it has no side effects on them.