Indco tea factories launch massive vaccination drive

Using ahead the determination to source balanced tea by a balanced workforce and grower members, the Indcoserve, India’s greatest tea co-operative federation head-quartered in Coonoor, has introduced a significant venture to vaccinate all eligible staff members and tea compact growers in opposition to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

At the starting of this 12 months, Indcoserve’s Chief Govt Officer Supriya Sahu who is also Principal Secretary to Tamil Nadu Federal government, distribute out a information, “We herald the New 12 months with a positive observe to be cost-free from the fears and travails of the pandemic.”

Now, to allay the concern in the minds of the staff members and the tea compact grower members, she has organised unique camps in Indco factories to vaccinate the eligible stakeholders.

“Of the 1,054 staff members in the 16 Indco tea factories, 632 are aged above forty five many years of whom, 350 have by now acquired vaccinated. Presently, Federal government has ordered vaccination only for people aged above forty five many years,” Supriya Sahu stated soon after monitoring the camp along with The Nilgiris District Collector Harmless Divya at the Indco manufacturing unit in Kattabettu village in close proximity to Coonoor.

“We have urged all eligible among the our around 30,000 tea compact grower members in numerous villages across The Nilgiris district also to get vaccinated,” she stated.

She stated that all Indco factories guarantee adherence to the Typical Operating Procedures approved by the Tamil Nadu Federal government together with wearing of facial area masks, social distancing, working with sanitizers and sticking to the authorized doing the job several hours.

The Nilgiris District Collector Harmless Divya stated that equivalent camps would be conducted in all the Indco tea factories to support all eligible stakeholders get vaccinated.

The 16 Indco tea factories manufacture about thirteen million kg of distinctive grades of teas yearly. Indcoserve, set up by the Federal government of Tamil Nadu in 1964, is the apex system of the Indco tea factories catering to the processing requirement of the around 30,000 tea compact farmers.