Chennai, 3rdApril, 2020: JCB India Ltd, the country’s leading manufacturer of Earthmoving and Construction Equipment, has partnered with Asian Institute of Medical Sciences, Faridabad to support the fight against COVID-19. This project will be partially funded through JCB India’s CSR initiative. The company has made a commitment to fund PPEs, medicines, testing kits, security suits and consumables for doctors and healthcare workers. This will jointly enhance the preparedness for comprehensive support to affected patients in Faridabad and surrounding areas during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Mr. Subir Kumar Chowdhury, Managing Director and CEO of JCB India said“We have initiated a multipronged prevention, mitigation and ongoing support strategy with Asian Institute of Medical Sciences to deal with COVID-19 related patients. This is inline with keeping with our company value of supporting and enhancing the communities in which we operate in. We are certain that this partnership will provide the requisite assistance to the people of Faridabad, where our India headquarters is located. We are actively assessing similar initiatives in areas where our other factories are located.”
Earlier in the COVID-19 crisis, through its CSR initiatives,JCB India also commenced a significant ongoing response programme for distribution of food and essential supplies in communities where the company operates in.
Global Outreach
In UK, JCB’s £50 million Cab Systems factory in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire is being mobilised to make special steel housings for a brand new design of ventilator from Dyson. A minimum of 10,000 of the JCB housings are earmarked for manufacture once Dyson receives regulatory approval for its design. The first prototypes of the housings have been delivered to Dyson after rolling off the production line. The project has gone from design to production in a matter of days and is a testament to the agility and skills of talented engineering, design and fabrication teams that have come on board very quickly at a time of national crisis.
About JCB India: –
JCB India Limited is a leading manufacturer of earthmoving and construction equipment and has been in India for over four decades. It has manufacturing facilities in Faridabad (Ballabgarh), Pune and Jaipur. The company has always remained deeply committed towards the communities around each of its factories.
An embodiment of the ‘Make in India’ programme, it today manufactures over 60 products in eight categories. These products have also been exported to more than 100 countries. JCB has the largest design centre outside of the UK in Pune, where it develops exciting new technologies for the future. It has also pioneered the integration of women in Manufacturing with almost 34% of the shop employees at its Jaipur factory comprising of women.
Through its CSR initiatives JCB India has also been working with the communities to facilitate access to a better quality of life. The Lady Bamford Charitable Trust (LBCT) set-up in the year 2000 started the company’s CSR journey by supporting a school near its Ballabgarh factory. Almost two decades later, the company’s CSR initiatives extend across three in-house foundations, four of the Sustainable Development Goals and reaches out to communities which include – Women, Adolescent Girls, Children, Rural Artisans and Youth.
These initiatives cover 15,500 students, providing them with quality education and over 2,000 Artisans and Women’s groups with market access and production efficiencies. It supports over 50 panchayats with accessing quality projects on ground.
JCB India has also established two pioneering and innovating CSR projects – Nila House, a center of excellence for craft in Jaipur and an annual prize for Literature, celebrating distinguished works of fiction by Indian writers – the JCB prize for Literature.
