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(HR), Shri. N. Sadish Babu, the nominated Chief
Executive Officer, COVID-19 has been conferred
with special powers for enabling expeditious and
effective implementation of all containment and
control measures by mobilisation of all resources on
a fast tracking mode.

Terms of reference of COVID-19 SMG, include
designing of short term, medium term and long
term responses required to maintain constant
and continuous watch on all developments of the
outbreak of the epidemic and to recommend and
implement remedial and containment measures in
like sanitation, public lighting and other necessary line with the advisories, guidelines and instructions
requirements. In this hour of crisis, the Company has of the GoI.
been able to keep its head above the water to meet
the Power requirements of the country, in tandem NLCIL’s Containment Action Plan
with the other Power PSEs. In order to prevent and stem the spread of the
pandemic, the company has accorded highest
With utmost agility and a sense of urgency, the priority for maintaining a constant state of alertness
Company has undertaken several measures, in its Townships and has created widespread
focused at prevention, containment and mitigation awareness among the employees and the local
of the disease, in strict adherence to the advisories, community. Further, various activities such as
guidelines and instructions issued by the GoI from awareness on hand and respiratory hygiene
time to time as well as voluntary measures, to practices to be adopted, social distancing measures,
stem the progression of the pandemic, COVID-19 re-organising the health care system by cutting
in its track and to protect its workforce and the down regular OPD appointments in the Hospital,
neighboring communities against it. restricting unnecessary visits to the Hospital for
consultations to maintain infection control, have
Formation of Strategic Management Group
(COVID-19 SMG) been undertaken.The Company’s Hospital in the
township has been reoriented to create quarantine
Leading from the front, NLCIL- COVID-19 – facilities, Isolation wards for management of severe
Strategic Management Group was constituted, cases who require ventilator support. Augmention
immediately, with the Chairman-Cum-Managing of resources like PPEs, essential medical supplies,
Director, Shri Rakesh Kumar at the helm, alongwith emergency medicines, training of doctors in COVID
all Functional Directors and CVO, viz.,S/Shri and ventilator management inviting experts from
R.Vikraman, Director (HR), N.N.M. Rao, Director State Government Medical College have also been
(P&P), Prabhakar Chowki, Director (Mines), Shaji effectively resorted to.
John, Director (Power), Jaikumar Srinivasan,
Director (Finance) and Venkatasubramanian, CVO. Compliance of Government Guidelines for
Workplaces
The SMG is available 24/7 to render guidance in
implementing the carefully drawn ‘COVID-19 In adherence to the Government instructions,
Epidemic Management Plan’ and hand-holding the the Company has issued detailed guidelines for
NLCIL team at every step. The Executive Director Workplace safety of COVID-19 cases, with focus on

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