By Bhupen Goswami

Guwahati : Managing Director of Numaligarh Refinery Ltd. (NRL) S K Barua handed over the final dividend cheque of Rs. 22.71 crore to Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal in presence of Directors and senior officials of the Company at the latter’s office at Janata Bhawan today. The NRL paid a total dividend of Rs. 168.02 crore to the Government of Assam for the financial year 2017-18, against its equity shareholding of 12.35 per cent in the Company. The dividend cheque presented today is in addition to the interim dividend of Rs. 145.31 crore handed over to the State Government in the last financial year 2017-18.