New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday thanked Jindal Steel and Power Corporation Ltd for the contribution towards PM CARES fund in the battle against Coronavirus pandemic. Union Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan also thanks JSPL CMD Naveen Jindal FOR JSPLs Contribution To PM-CARES Fund. Thank you @MPNaveenJindal ji for contributing to PM-CARES fund. We stand united in our fight against a common enemy.#PMCARES #IndiaFightsCorona https://t.co/hgS3nj7ACh — Dharmendra Pradhan (@dpradhanbjp) March 31, 2020 It should be noted that Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSPL) has contributed Rs. 25 Crore to the PM-CARES Fund to support the Governments mission to curb COVID-19 pandemic in India. “To support Indias war against COVID-19, @JSPLCorporate is making an immediate contribution of Rs. 25 crores to the PM CARES Fund. We will continue to extend every possible support to our nation in this fight against Covid-19,” said Shri Naveen Jindal, Chairman of JSPL, in a tweet. JSPL announced about this contribution on the occasion of 15th Death Anniversary of Shri O.P. Jindal, Founder of OP Jindal Group. In addition to this, JSPL has also joined its hand with the Government to fight the outbreak of coronavirus in the country in multi-dimensional public service deliveries. Pursuing the Mission Zero Hunger, JSPL Foundation, the CSR arm of JSPL, is providing food and other essential supplies to the local communities in the vicinity of its manufacturing locations. As of now, more than 3000 meals / cooked food packets are served by the JSPL Foundation to the socially vulnerable, destitute, indigenous community and other underprivileged people in and around the vicinity of JSPLs Plants in Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. The Steel maker has also upgraded its hospitals to fight this pandemic by equipping them with additional ventilators and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits and creating isolation wards. JSPL is also providing medical support through its hospitals and OSH centres and has created quarantine facilities at its manufacturing locations. JSPL Foundation promoted Women Self Help Groups , equipped with skill and machines have so far made more than one lakh masks and distributed amongst local community , its workforce as well as the vendors and truckers , after appropriate UV treatment . JSPL Foundation, under the mentoring of its Chairperson Smt. Shallu Jindal is striving to reach all sections of the society with the masks, sanitisers, handwash and other hygienic products to the villages around its operational locations in Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. Like this: Like Loading... Related comments

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