TVS Motors pledges Rs 40 crore to curb Covid-19 spread

TVS Motor Company, along with Sundaram Clayton and its group companies, has pledged Rs. 40 crores as part of an integrated approach to support the nationwide efforts to curb the spread of Covid-19.

The funds will be utilised to provide lifesaving supplies such as oxygen concentrators, PPE Kits, medicines and medical equipment across the country, and the initiative will be undertaken by Srinivasan Services Trust (SST), the social arm of TVS Motor Company and Sundaram Clayton Ltd.

As part of this initiative, the company will supply 2,000 oxygen concentrators to hospitals and health centres and over 20,000 food packets per day for essential services workers in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Himachal Pradesh during the second wave of Covid-19.

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This will be supported by distributing over a million face masks, thousands of oximeters and PPE kits, hand sanitisers and essential medicines to more than 500 government health centres and hospitals in these states. Additionally, the company will continue to facilitate all possible assistance to Covid-19 care centres in rural areas across the country, the company said.

“We are working with the Government to provide assistance to various health centres in rural India and create easy medical accessibility at the grassroots. We are focused on doing whatever it takes to alleviate and enhance the quality of lives of the communities we serve, as we have done in our 100-year history,” Venu Srinivasan, Chairman, TVS Motor Company.

TVS Motor Company is also working closely with two hospitals in Chennai: Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital and Stanley Medical College Hospital, to support them with supplies and aid their effort in treating Covid-19 patients.

The company is working with local authorities and has dedicated two ambulances for villages near the TVS Motor Company factories in Hosur and Mysuru, a statement said.

TVS Motors has also assured that it will fully cover all employees’ medical expenses towards Covid-19 treatment.