When the nation went into a sudden lockdown on March 22nd, 2020, everyone was confused as to how to move forward during and post lockdown. While the medical professionals were and are doing their best in saving people, we understand that our responsibility as a company and citizens of the country is to help in stopping the spread of Covid-19. So when Covid-19 penetrated India, we implemented a series of precautionary measures to protect all our stakeholders and minimize its spread. We executed these procedures as a routine schedule at our manufacturing unit and city office to keep everyone safe and maintain high hygiene and safe packaging.Anyone entering the facility goes through a security check where their vehicle is sanitized, their body temperature is checked and recorded, and are provided with sanitizer to clean themselves. We made sure that everyone present is wearing gloves & mask and practicing social distancing at all times.We installed Hand Sanitizer stands at various places across the facility and made frequent hand washing mandatory.We reduced the workforce at the manufacturing facility by allowing only the fieldwork employees while the rest of the team worked from home. To make sure that our customers and our employees who risk their lives in delivering food essentials are safe We promoted and educated people through our social media handles on the need and importance of doing digital payments.We also promoted no contact delivery by asking our customers to pick up their packages from outside their doors. We know and understand that during this hard time, we all need to use our resources to help the community and we tried to do our part in the following ways:We donated 5000 bags of Atta to the local government and NGO on a philanthropic basis and also supplied 54 Tonnes of atta to various NGOs and Industrial associations at subsidized rates with our contribution as a charity. We also started our own initiative ‘Donate a Smile’ where anybody could donate essential food commodity boxes to anyone who is in need at discounted prices and we delivered it for free at their doorstep. The aim of this initiative was to help the most vulnerable like our house helps; drivers; elderly neighbors and ensure that no one goes to bed hungry....
