Indco tea factories launch massive vaccination drive

Having forward the commitment to source balanced tea by a balanced workforce and grower users, the Indcoserve, India’s major tea co-operative federation head-quartered in Coonoor, has launched a significant project to vaccinate all eligible employees and tea tiny growers in opposition to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

At the beginning of this 12 months, Indcoserve’s Chief Executive Officer Supriya Sahu who is also Principal Secretary to Tamil Nadu Authorities, unfold out a information, “We herald the New Yr with a positive be aware to be free of charge from the fears and travails of the pandemic.”

Now, to allay the worry in the minds of the employees and the tea tiny grower users, she has organised specific camps in Indco factories to vaccinate the eligible stakeholders.

“Of the 1,054 employees in the sixteen Indco tea factories, 632 are aged earlier mentioned 45 many years of whom, 350 have currently acquired vaccinated. Presently, Authorities has ordered vaccination only for those aged earlier mentioned 45 many years,” Supriya Sahu said after monitoring the camp along with The Nilgiris District Collector Harmless Divya at the Indco manufacturing facility in Kattabettu village around Coonoor.

“We have urged all eligible among the our above thirty,000 tea tiny grower users in many villages across The Nilgiris district also to get vaccinated,” she said.

She said that all Indco factories be certain adherence to the Regular Running Methods prescribed by the Tamil Nadu Authorities such as donning of deal with masks, social distancing, employing sanitizers and sticking to the authorized operating hrs.

The Nilgiris District Collector Harmless Divya said that related camps would be performed in all the Indco tea factories to help all eligible stakeholders get vaccinated.

The sixteen Indco tea factories manufacture about 13 million kg of different grades of teas every year. Indcoserve, set up by the Authorities of Tamil Nadu in 1964, is the apex body of the Indco tea factories catering to the processing need of the above thirty,000 tea tiny farmers.