To promote Under-17 FIFA Football World Cup 2017 scheduled in October 2017, NCL is organising Football Tournament from 15th September to 24th September under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) ambit of the company. As a part of inaugural ceremony, Chief Guest, S.K. Jha, General Manager (CSR), NCL flagged off the tournament in Karela on 15th September, 2017. T.B. Raju, GM (Personnel) and Bikul Borthakur, GM (Civil/CSR) graced the occasion as guests of honour.
The 10-day tournament, lasting up to September 24th, 2017, will be played under rural and urban genre. Opening match of the tournament was played under ‘Rural’ genre between Karela and Barmani village in which the host team, Village Karela won by 2-0. In this sequence, second match of the tournament was played between Pipra and Birkunia village in which the team of Village Pipra registered a whopping victory by 4-1.