BEL distributes grocery kits to migrant workers

Bengaluru: Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has, as part of its CSR initiatives, come forward to lend a helping hand to migrant workers in Bengaluru, impacted by the lockdown. The Bangalore Complex of BEL handed over 1,300 grocery kits, valued at Rs. 23 lakhs, to migrant workers through the city police.

Vinay Kumar Katyal, Director, BEL-Bangalore, and Shivakumaran K M, Director (HR), BEL, handed over the kits containing rice, daal, sugar and other essential commodities to migrant workers in the presence of Shashikumar N, IPS, DCP, Bangalore North, Mrs Nisha James, IPS, Admn Bangalore, Office of Commissioner of Police, and other senior officers of BEL.

In a bid to mitigate the hardships faced by migrant workers, the Bangalore Complex of BEL has, ever since the implementation of lockdown, been providing 250 food packets daily to the workers through the city police.

The employees of BEL had earlier contributed their one day's salary amounting to Rs. 2.71 Crores to the Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM CARES) Fund. The Company also released Rs. 10 crore from its CSR Fund towards the PM CARES fund, to combat and contain the COVID- 19 pandemic in India and also for relief efforts