Indco tea factories launch massive vaccination drive

Having forward the dedication to source healthy tea by a healthy workforce and grower members, the Indcoserve, India’s largest tea co-operative federation head-quartered in Coonoor, has launched a huge venture to vaccinate all eligible staff and tea tiny growers versus the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

At the beginning of this year, Indcoserve’s Main Govt Officer Supriya Sahu who is also Principal Secretary to Tamil Nadu Government, unfold out a information, “We herald the New Calendar year with a optimistic observe to be cost-free from the fears and travails of the pandemic.”

Now, to allay the panic in the minds of the staff and the tea tiny grower members, she has organised distinctive camps in Indco factories to vaccinate the eligible stakeholders.

“Of the one,054 staff in the sixteen Indco tea factories, 632 are aged higher than 45 decades of whom, 350 have currently received vaccinated. Presently, Government has ordered vaccination only for those aged higher than 45 decades,” Supriya Sahu explained right after monitoring the camp alongside with The Nilgiris District Collector Innocent Divya at the Indco factory in Kattabettu village in the vicinity of Coonoor.

“We have urged all eligible amongst our more than thirty,000 tea tiny grower members in several villages throughout The Nilgiris district also to get vaccinated,” she explained.

She explained that all Indco factories be certain adherence to the Common Functioning Tactics recommended by the Tamil Nadu Government together with sporting of experience masks, social distancing, utilizing sanitizers and sticking to the allowed performing hours.

The Nilgiris District Collector Innocent Divya explained that related camps would be executed in all the Indco tea factories to assistance all eligible stakeholders get vaccinated.

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