Mahindra and Mahindra has announced that the company will be suspending operations at the Nagpur plant with immediate effect. The decision ...
Mahindra and Mahindra has announced that the company will be suspending operations at the Nagpur plant with immediate effect. The decision comes as a "preventive and pre-emptive" measure amidst the Coronavirus outbreak. The Maharashtra government has already put the cities of Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, and Pimpri-Chinchwad under partial lockdown to reduce the risk of spreading the virus. In addition, Mahindra's Kandivali (Mumbai) and Chakan (Pune) facilities will be temporarily shut down as well, from Monday, March 23, 2020. The manufacturer hasn't announced the period during which the plants will be closed. With the announcement, Mahindra joins Hero MotoCorp and FCA India that have shut operations for the next two weeks.
Going by various reports from epidemiologists, it is highly likely that India is already in Stage 3 of transmission.
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) March 22, 2020
—Cases could rise exponentially with millions of casualties, putting a huge strain on medical infrastructure (1/5)
In a statement, Mahindra said, "Employee well-being and safety are matters of utmost priority. We are carefully monitoring the rapidly evolving Covid-19 pandemic and will continue to take swift and appropriate action on other plants in the State of Maharashtra and across the nation should the situation change. Meanwhile, all our offices across the country have already implemented Work from Home. Several other measures including the highest standards of hygiene and promoting social distancing at all the offices and manufacturing locations across the country have been taken."
—A lockdown over the next few weeks will help flatten the curve & moderate the peak pressure on medical care. —However, we need to create scores of temporary hospitals & we have a scarcity of ventilators. (2/5)
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) March 22, 2020
Meanwhile, Anand Mahindra, Mahindra Group Chairman has announced several measures to help combat the Coronavirus pandemic. In a series of tweets, Mahindra said that the conglomerate will immediately work on how its manufacturing facilities can make ventilators. He has also offered to the Make Holidays resorts as temporary care facilities. The company's Projects Team is also ready to help the government or the army to erect the temporary care facilities.
—To help in the response to this unprecedented threat, we at the Mahindra Group will immediately begin work on how our manufacturing facilities can make ventilators.
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) March 22, 2020
—At Mahindra Holidays, we stand ready to offer our resorts as temporary care facilities. (3/5)
Furthermore, Anand Mahindra has announced that he will donate 100 per cent of his salary towards creating a fund to assist the businesses in the Mahindra value chain and has asked other verticals in the group to add to the same in their respective ecosystems.
—Our Projects team stands ready to assist the Govt/Army in erecting temporary care facilities. —The Mahindra Foundation will create a fund to assist the hardest hit in our value chain (small businesses & the self employed) (4/5)
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) March 22, 2020
—We will encourage associates to voluntarily contribute to the Fund. I will contribute 100% of my salary to it & will add more over the next few months. I urge all our various businesses to also set aside contributions for those who are the hardest hit in their ecosystems (5/5)
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) March 22, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected over three lakh people globally with over 300 cases reported in India. The government has advised social distancing for the next two weeks to flatten the virus' growth curve across the country, while the state of Rajasthan has been partially locked down as well to further limit the spread of infection. Both the Delhi and UP governments have said that they won't hesitate to lockdown the capital and state respectively, should there be more cases of the Coronavirus.
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