Coronavirus Outbreak: Amara Raja Group Shuts Its Manufacturing Units

The Amara Raja Group has been proactively taking all the steps regarding prevention/spread of COVID–19, over the last few weeks. 

A Group Corporate Taskforce for COVID-19 with senior leadership and medical professionals has been put in place to scan the entire operating environment (internal as well as external), to review the operating guidelines released by Central/State Governments and to formulate and execute the action plan devised to mitigate against the pandemic.

Besides this, the group had also commenced train-the-trainers program to create a large scale spread of communication across the 16,000-strong employee community – commissioned over the last few weeks.

Based on the spirit of the GO from the Government of Andhra Pradesh, the Amara Raja Group has decided to shut down the manufacturing operations of all its manufacturing units till 31st March 2020, except for essential services. Considering that most of the manufacturing operations are continuous process in nature, steps for safe shut down has commenced.  The Group will be reviewing the situation continuously and will take all necessary steps as required from time to time, said the company.