By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR/NEW DELHI: Complements, best wishes and greetings are now started pouring in for people friendly corporate leader Naveen Jindal, who heads India’s one of the leading business conglomerate, Jindal Steel and Power Limited after the Steel maker extended help of hands to as many as 5 States in supplying medical oxygen to fight back COVID-19. JSPL Chairman has already spoken to MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Delhi’s Arvind Kejriwal and Rajasthan’s Ashok Gehlot, apart from that, the JSPL Chairman is in regular touch with State Governments of Odisha and Chhattisgarh.
“@MPNaveenJindal@JSPLCorporate And @OfficeofSSC.Thank you for the prompt response @MPNaveenJindal Ji.Your valuable contribution will add strength to our fight against #COVID19,” MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan tweeted @ChouhanShivraj.
“Well done @MPNaveenJindal. Pl send oxygen to other places also from all your plants. People are in desperate need of oxygen #COVIDEmergency2021,” Congress veteran Rajeev Shukla tweeted @ShuklaRajiv. Responding Rajiv Shukla, Naveen Jindal replied that “Thank you @ShuklaRajiv ji. We are providing Liquid #MedicalOxygen to Delhi, MP, Telangana, Odisha as well,”.
Sources in Odisha’s Angul, where JSPL running a Steel complex, informed that oxygen tankers are all set to move to Telangana and MP and Delhi.“20 MT Liquid Medical Oxygen tanker ready to be dispatched to Telangana from@jsplcorporate Angul. Tomorrow, we will also be sending tankers of #liquidOxygen to Batra Hospital, Medanta and Artemis Hospital in Delhi/NCR along with Telangana and Madhya Pradesh. Jai Hind Flag of India,” JSPL Chairman Naveen Jindal tweeted @MPNaveenJindal.
“Also spoke to Delhi CM @ArvindKejriwal ji & Rajasthan CM @ashokgehlot51ji and have assured them of #Oxygen supply. We are doing our best; God willing, we will soon overcome the #OxygenShortage in the country,”Naveen Jindal tweeted @MPNaveenJindal.
“Had a discussion with Madhya Pradesh CM Shri @ChouhanShivraj and assured him that we will supply #Oxygen from our @JSPLCorporate Raigarh plant to MP. @OfficeofSSC #IndiaFightsCorona,” Naveen Jindal had earlier tweeted @MPNaveenJindal.
“We have more than 500 tons of liquid oxygen readily available at our Angul plant. Apart from this, we can provide 100 tonnes/day to any government that needs it.We will continue to support the nation in all possible ways in this war against the pandemic. Jai HindFlag of India,” the former 2times Lok Sabha MP from Haryana’s Kruskhetra, said in another tweet.
The Company had supplied 725 tons of liquid oxygen in Odisha last year to save human lives from COVID Pandemic.Medical Oxygen is critical in the treatment of medical complications that develop due to the COVID-19.
JSPL has also taken multipronged initiatives to fight the second wave of COVID-19 across all its operational locations, including Odisha. The Company has instituted COVID Care Centres in each of its business locations. Thermal Screening of the Workforce, employees, vaccination, periodic testing of all employees and workers, facilities for sanitisation, distribution of masks, operation of isolation centres etc. are being done extensively to keep JSPL’ workplace safe.
Pursuing its CSR responsibility the Company under the umbrella of its Social Arm JSPL Foundation has been providing hot cooked meals to the underprivileged and vulnerable everyday also has been distributing face masks, Sanitizers, Phenyls, etc. manufactured by the Women SHGs to the Community, Workforce and the front line COVID warriors for last one year since the onset of the global pandemic.
