Vedanta Donates Rs 5 crore to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister’s Public Relief Fund
- Vedanta’s Sterlite Copper ramps up efforts for Community initiatives.
- Employees raise Rs 15 lakh to help support local sanitation and health workers
- Partners with SHGs to manufacture and distribute hygiene items
Chennai, 18th April 2020: At a
time when COVID-19 cases are on a steady rise, people and
organisations from all walks of life are pitching in to supplement the
efforts undertaken by the central and the state governments. Vedanta
Sterlite Copper has contributed Rs 5 crore to the Tamil
Nadu Chief Minister’s Public Relief Fund to join forces with the state in
fighting the pandemic.
Vedanta has already provided Rs
101 crore to PM-CARES Fund towards this cause and has set
up a Rs 100 crore corpus for daily workers, preventive healthcare and welfare
of employees and contract partners across the country. “We have
100,000 people working at Vedanta and each of them, along with their family
members, are empowered to do whatever it takes to help people in distress. We
are facing multiple problems but it’s the country that comes first,” Vedanta
Limited Chairman Anil Agarwal has said.
In an act of solidarity
with coronavirus-affected people, the employees of Sterlite Copper along
with group businesses have contributed their one-day’s salary for
local communities. Sterlite Copper has already teamed up
with 10 Self Help Group (SHG) partners, comprising 150 members, to manufacture
and distribute masks and personal hygiene items across 20 villages in
Thoothukudi, providing the local communities with preventive safeguards against
the virus.
Sterlite
Copper has so far distributed around 30,000 masks to 5,200 households and truck
drivers in the district. The company plans to distribute another 20,000 masks
over the next few weeks. As part of its ongoing community outreach
programme, the company has provided around 1,300 litres of liquid
handwash, 13,000 soap bars and 1,000 bottles of hand sanitizer
to people in the district.
Sterlite
Copper has distributed 200 sets of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) for
frontline health workers at the Tuticorin Medical College Hospital and
Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital. The company is in the process of securing
an additional 200 sets of PPEs for use by the healthcare
personnel.
Disinfectants
such as Sodium Hypochlorite and Bleaching Powder along with appropriate
disinfecting tools are being distributed across villages, positively
impacting the lives of around 2 lakh people in the area.
About Vedanta Limited
Vedanta
Limited, a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources Limited, is one of the world’s
leading Oil & Gas and Metals company with significant operations in Oil
& Gas, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Copper, Iron Ore, Steel, and Aluminium &
Power across India, South Africa, Namibia, and Australia. For two decades,
Vedanta has been contributing to India’s growth story, currently contributing 1
percent of India’s GDP. The company is among the top private sector
contributors to the exchequer with the highest ever contribution of INR 42,560
Crore in FY 2019.
