Battling Covid in India's villages

Caring and giving is in the DNA of the Aditya Birla Group. When Covid-19 struck, the Group recognised the severity of the crisis and launched a multi-pronged response across our locations that covered financial and material aid, healthcare initiatives and community engagements.

Our Covid-19 activities across India

Our endeavour is to serve, support and Care our multi-pronged approach.

Supporting rural healthcare

Strengthening rural healthcare

• Two ventilators for the hospital in Chandrapur, Maharashtra; one for the district government hospital at Sidhi, Madhya Pradesh
• RO system and CBC machine for the local hospital at Manawar in Madhya Pradesh
• 200 beds for Covid patients across Ujjain, Pune, Nagda, Hazaribagh, Solapur, Veraval, Rayagada and Kharach
• Quarantine centres of 30 beds in Madhya Pradesh and 100 beds in Rajasthan
• Rural quarantine centres at 55 locations
• Ambulance services at 30 locations
• Isolation wards in Maharashtra and Jharkhand
• 1,585 medical PPE sets for health workers

Building community knowledge on safety

• Awareness camps, distribution of handbills, playing audio messages through mobile vans, displaying banners, door-to-door campaigns
• Continued and pro-active engagement with local communities and other stakeholders of 1,204 villages and nearby urban centres
• Facilitating facemasks

Facilitating facemasks

Fighting hunger

• 1 million meals distributed in over 110 locations (by Hindalco, UltraTech, Grasim, Tanfac Industries and Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital)

Sanitising villages

• 130,000 sanitisers, soaps and disinfectants distributed to local communities across various manufacturing units  
• Village and community sanitisation measures reached over 2 million people in rural areas and urban slums

Reaching out to farmers

• Nearly 150,000 farmers were given online training in best agronomic practices to enable them to reap a rich harvest  

Throughout the pandemic and the lockdown, our community outreach programmes in healthcare, education, sustainable livelihoods and infrastructure continued to transform the lives of 9 million people spanning 7,000 villages globally.