The company has organised this drive for the Covid warriors like petrol pump customer attendants, LPG delivery boys and mechanics, Tank truck drivers, stakeholders and Indian Oil families.
BHUBANESWAR: Union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday inaugurated vaccination drive at Indian Oil’s Odisha state office in Bhubaneswar.
The company has organised this drive for the Covid warriors like petrol pump customer attendants, LPG delivery boys and mechanics, Tank truck drivers, stakeholders and Indian Oil families.
The Indian Oil has made arrangements to conduct this drive after paying for the procurement of vaccines. Covishield doses were given to the frontline workers and dependents of Indian Oil employees free of cost. The public sector undertaking (PSU) has made arrangements to inoculate 200 persons per day till June 8. Indian Oil’s state office in association with Apollo Hospital Bhubaneswar has organised this vaccination camp for the frontline workers.
Pradhan said the Centre is arranging 50 per cent of vaccines for a state government free of cost, 25 per cent will be arranged by the state government itself free of cost and rest 25 percent of vaccines will be arranged by corporate under its corporate social responsibility (CSR) wing for vaccinating frontline warriors for free of cost.
He stood beside the frontline warriors while they were taking shots. He urged other companies like HPCL, BPCL, SAIL, Nalco, NTPC, MCL, Paradip Port, BSNL and other PSUs to come forward for organising similar vaccination camps for the people of Odisha. “Apart from inoculating their own employees and frontline workers, these companies can vaccinate common people through its CSR initiative,” he said.
