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Distribution of food grains New Delhi; Ministry of Home were also scrupulously followed.
The Quality Control department Affairs (MHA), New Delhi; Dep- The use of AarogyaSetuApp,
swung into action to prepare artment of Atomic Energy (DAE) launched by the Government was
hand sanitizers, which were pre- and also those of the local State widely publicized among all the
pared in-house in accordance Govt. around the operating units. stakeholders of IREL. The lock-
with the norms stipulated by During the period of Lockdown, down period was gainfully uti-
WHO and widely distributed. IREL maintained roster for execu- lized towards skill development
Packets of food items and other tives & non-executives to ensure of its employees. Employees
essentials were distributed to skeleton manpower, implement- were encouraged to enrol for on-
the needy public across all the ed concept of Work from Home line Skill Development courses
operating units of the Company to keep up with the Business conducted by different agen-
and also to the migrant workers Promise, carried out thorough dis- cies. Around 200 employees at-
through the office of the District infection of work areas, monitored tended these programs and de-
Administration. Under the clean- social distancing norms, etc. After veloped skillsets necessary for
liness drive large scale sanitisation declaration of the exemptions multi-tasking.
activities were carried out using granted for Mining and Mineral
IREL’s Fire Tender in all the ad- Production activities vide circulars
joining villages. The offices of dis- from MHA, New Delhi; Ministry
trict administration like Offices of of Mines, New Delhi and DGMS,
Collector, Superintend of Police, Dhanbad, IREL units approached
Additional District Magistrate, the respective State/District au-
Tehsildar, Police Stations, etc thorities for and resumed opera-
were also sanitized by IREL. tions in a phased manner from the
1 week of April 2020.
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Sanitisation of local villages
Helping hand was also extended Social distancing by
to financial institutions such as lo- employees, temperature Leading from the front in the fight
cal branches of SBI, Indian Bank, monitoring and SOPs against the Pandemic, the top
LIC etc and Industrial houses under display Management of the Company con-
in the vicinity such as SARAF Standard Operating Procedure nected with all the operating units
Industries, which could resume (SOP) on 'Disinfection & Preven- using various communication
operations thereafter.
tion of COVID-19 at work places', channels like video conferencing,
'Mining Operations in COVID messages etc to keep up the mo-
Sanitisation of SARAF Situation' and 'Resumption of rale and spirit of all the employ-
Industries operations after lockdown' were ees. The various safety measures,
IREL ensured meticulous imple- prepared and implemented in all facilities to employees reporting
mentation of the various direc- the operating units. Further, the for work and keeping the produc-
tives issued by Department of SOPs issued by statutory agencies tion process running are being
Personnel & Training (DoPT), like DGMS, CPCB, KSPCB etc. monitored on a daily basis.

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