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Prepare now for a third Covid-wave: Thackeray to India Inc
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SME Times News Bureau | 17 Apr, 2021
Warning of a possible "third wave of Covid-19",
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday appealed to
India Inc. to make all-out preparations to counter it right now and
ensure it doesn't hit the state's industry and economy.
Urging
the corporate houses and industrialists to collaborate with the state
government to combat the current and upcoming crises. Thackeray said
India Inc. could contribute immediately by setting up Covid care
facilities on their plants and premises and plans 'Covid-compatible
workplaces' for the future.
"Presently, the state is in dire need
of oxygen, and currently the entire production is being utilised for
medical purposes. Given the number of new patients coming up daily
(around 60K daily), we need a lot more oxygen for which the industries
can help out," Thackeray said, in an interaction with some of the
leading business houses and corporate groups.
Health Secretary
Dr. Pradeep Vyas said that the state is conducting 3-lakh tests per
million population and though the death rate is low, the infections are
very high.
He requested the industries to start setting up small
oxygen plants in their premises to absorb natural oxygen based on new
technologies and provide the entire production (oxygen) for medical
purposes.
The meeting with Thackeray was attended by leading
India Inc. players like Niranjan Hiranandani, Uday Kotak, Deepak Mukhi,
Harsh Goenka, Naushad Forbes, Sulajja Firodia, Sameer Somaiya, S. N.
Subramanian, Salil Parekh, Neel Raheja, Sanjeev Bajaj, Anant Goenka,
Baba Kalyani, Anant Singhania, B. Thagarajan, Banamali Agarwal, Ashwin
Yardi, Sunil Mathur, Sanjeev Singh, Ashish Agarwal, representatives of
FICCI, CII and others industry bodies.
Representing top corporate
houses or groups like Tata, Reliance, L&T, Infosys, JSW, Mahindra
& Mahindra, Godrej, Blue Star, Kinetic Engineering and many more,
the representatives unanimously assured that they were with the state
government in this critical hour while interacting with the CM, Industry
Minister Subhash Desai, Health Minister Rajesh Tope and top officials.
Responding
favourably to Thackeray's suggestion, the corporate honchos committed
to make available oxygen, provide testing and vaccination centres,
isolation areas, creating special systems for the health of all their
workers and employees, developing systems to encourage Work From Home
and other Covid-appropriate measures.
Thackeray called upon the
corporate world to ensure that in view of the 'Covid waves', all steps
must be taken to prevent their adverse impact on the industry and the
economy due to unavoidable pandemic lockdowns or stringent norms.
The
CM directed Chief Secretary Sitaram Kunte to set up an 'Industry Task
Force' which would work in tandem in future with the state government on
all aspects of Covid type of health emergencies.
Thackeray asked
the industrialists to take up welfare activities like Shiv Bhojan Thali
for the poor in cities or local villages through the CSR route to
minimise the impact of the Covid waves on the most vulnerable sections
of society.
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