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L&T to Provide Medical Aid worth Rs.40 Crore to Combat COVID19

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Over and above its Rs. 150 Crore donation to PM-CARES Fund, the conglomerate to donate 45,000 PPEs, 1,51,000 N95 masks and 155 diagnostic kits capable of conducting 15,500 COVID19 tests Donated ventilators, hospital beds and other hospital equipment to various hospitals Help is provided to various health agencies belonging to Central government and state governments Chennai, 18 April: As a part of its corporate responsibility to help India fight COVID19, Larsen & Toubro, India’s leading technology, engineering, construction, manufacturing and financial services conglomerate, plans to further donate COVID diagnostic Kits, PPEs, N95 masks and other medical equipment worth Rs. 40 Crore. This is over and above the donation of Rs. 150 Crore by the company to the PM-CARES Fund announced on March 30 and Rs. 500 Crore per month for providing support to 160,000 contract labour spread across the country. Commenting on this development, Mr. SN Subrahmanyan, CEO & MD, La...

Vedanta Donates Rs 5 crore to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister’s Public Relief Fund

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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, 18 th 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 a...