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• Food and water were provided to around 6000 extraordinary grit, determination, alacrity and agility
interstate migrant workmen transiting through in containing the mysterious virus ‘COVID-19’ in
Sambalpur and Bhubaneswar. Neyveli and surrounding areas, by swiftly and
• NLCIL arranged for movement of around 3700 earnestly following the advisories of Government of
interstate migrant workmen from their projects India (GoI) in letter and spirit. No sooner had the GoI
back to their native states of Jharkhand, Odisha, alerted the nation about the looming COVID-19 threat
Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, on the horizon through a series of advisories, guidelines
Haryana, Kerala etc. and instructions that NLCIL swung into action by
forming a Strategic Management Group headed by
Medical support to address health crisis
the CMD and all Functional Directors to implement
• NLCIL’s mobile medical vans are extending a number of effective measures to stem the spread
medical services to project affected villages of the unknown virus in all its project areas, spread
surrounding our Talabira-II & III open cast across the country’ including Neyveli, Tamil Nadu.
project and Ghatampur TPS projects. Rational and strategic use of personnel to ensure
• Further, masks and sanitizers were provided in adherence to the requirement of Social Distancing
project affected villages surrounding Neyveli, at all its plants and service units, while ensuring
Barsingsar, Sambalpur and Ghatampur. continuity of production, were supported by
• Special medical camps were conducted and aggressive awareness campaigns to sensitize the
around 1700 ISMW were provided with medical employees as well as the local community on
services and counseling at Neyveli, Ghatampur, personal hygiene, crowd regulation, social distancing.
Talabira and Barsingsar. Immediate lockdown was implemented in the
Innovation, R&D and Technological Township and quarantine facilities were created for
breakthrough isolating persons with travel history. In addition to
strict surveillance and monitoring of persons under
NLCIL’s Centre for Applied Research and Home Quarantine, re-orienting the Hospital to
Development (CARD) is producing soap solution fully focus on prevention, control and mitigation of
and sanitizing liquid to meet company’s needs. COVID-19 through Fever Clinic, creation of Isolation
wards with life saving equipments and strengthening
Managing the Invisible (COVID-19) NLC India’s
Way of Handling the Challenge medical supplies was swiftly undertaken through
innovative ideas.
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he
stands in moments of comfort and convenience, “When the going gets tough, the tough
but where he stands at times of challenge….” get going”- Balancing Power Generation &
Pre-emptive measures to stem the
Preventive Measures (for the Organisation spread of COVID-19
and Employees)
Indeed it is a tough scenario, in fact very tough as
Awareness Campaigns the whole world faces one of the worst Public Health
crises of recent times. Rising to the occasion in true
Any Other Significant Measures taken Battle Readiness, in response to the call given by GoI
by the Company
to fight this dreaded disease, NLCIL has adopted a
In true spirit of these words of Martin Luther King, multi-pronged approach, balancing the requirements
NLC India Limited (NLCIL), a Navratna Public entailed in a period of lockdown, with the need to
Enterprise under the administrative control of maintain uninterrupted Power generation, essential
Ministry of Coal, Govt. of India, has shown to service the hospitals and other essential services
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