NLCIL takes measures to combat COVID-19

CHENNAI: All out efforts are on at NLC India Limited (NLCIL) to prevent the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19). Ever since the Government of India started issuing various advisories to take precautionary steps to prevent spread of Coronavirus, the NLCIL management has implemented a slew of preventive actions and awareness campaigns. A few of them are listed as under:

The top management comprising Rakesh Kumar, Chairman-cum-managing Director, R. Vikraman, Director/hr, N.N.M. Rao, Director/ P&P, Prabhakar Chowki, Director/mines, Shaji John, Director/power and N. Jaikumar Srinivasan, Director/ Finance are constantly monitoring the activities besides having a structured review

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starting at 09:30 hours every morning. The core group of senior executives involved in various preventive measures attends the meeting. N. Sadish Babu, Executive Director/hr has been nominated as the Nodal Officer cum Chief Executive Officer –COVID-19 prevention of spread.

NLCIL'S regular employees and the workmen of contractors have been exempted from marking biometric attendance and are recording attendance electronically by using their Identity Cards.

An awareness campaign has been launched through pamphlets, posters, hoardings and videos to promote the habits of personal hygiene, workplace hygiene and maintaining social distance.

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NLCIL'S guest houses have been highly restricted. The travel history and medical status of the guests are thoroughly scrutinized before permitting any accommodation in guest house. Guests are also required to record any contact with those who have travel history within 2 months to foreign countries and also about any test undergone by them for COVID-19 or H1N1.

In NLCIL'S general hospital, a quarantine ward has been created with 20 bedded capacity and additionally existing 3 wards with 73 beds have been earmarked and kept ready to function as isolation wards to meet any emergency. Home quarantine arrangements were also made with 40 room building converted as Quarantine Care Centre.

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