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Apollo Tyres and Ashok Leyland Collaborate on Driver Health Initiatives
counsellor, and paramedics, apart from outreach workers and a network of peer educators appointed over a period of time. This team will work together towards bringing down the instance of STIs, and thereby, reducing the vulnerability of the population of contracting HIV apart from offering a gamut of other healthcare services for Vision Care, Diabetes, Hypertension and Tuberculosis. The two companies will be working together to establish more such healthcare centres in
large transshipment hubs across India.
The new facility has been created with a spacious floor space of 2500 sq ft and is equipped with adequate diagnostic equipment, which is exclusive for the health education of the Driving Community within the Driver Training premises. A nominal registration fees of INR 20/- will enable the driver to avail these services at any of the 31 Apollo Tyres Healthcare Centres across India.
In a unique first of its kind corporate partnership, Ashok Leyland, flagship of the Hinduja Group, the second largest commercial vehicle manufacturer in India, has associated with Apollo Tyres to provide healthcare facilities to the trucking
and Balachandar NV, President, HR, Communication and CSR, Ashok Leyland; along with Satish Sharma, President, Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa, and Sunam Sarkar, President and Chief Business Officer, Apollo Tyres. Serving a daily floating population
community in Namakkal, a prominent transhipment hub in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The Healthcare Centre at Ashok Leyland’s Driver Training Institute at Namakkal, will be run by Apollo Tyres, and was inaugurated recently by Anuj Kathuria, Chief Operating Officer,
of more than 12,500 truckers, and the allied community, the primary aim of the Healthcare Centre will be awareness generation on HIV- AIDS and prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) among truckers and the local community. The Centre will be staffed by a qualified doctor, a
One of the major Indag franchisees near Delhi is coping with the market slowdown and hoping for the conditions to improve in 2020. Located about 50 km outside of New Delhi, Alfa Cold Retreads, a prominent retreader in the city of Ghaziabad, is currently operating at third of what it produced until about three years ago.
On what caused the reduction in sales, V P Sharma of Alfa Cold Retreads explained, “There are multiple reasons like the phasing out of 10 years old trucks by the government, which used to be the mainstay of the business. Besides, the general economic downturn has caused a number of smaller fleets to go out of business, while others have moved out and relocated to far-off places, wherever
they find business.”
According to him, “Small fleets of about 20 trucks were not able to withstand the slowdown as stranded vehicles increase overheads, leading them to shut operations.” Moreover, bigger fleets survive but their financial woes are increasing with outstanding debts piling-up due to prolonged credit exposure extended from 90 days 180 days.
Ghaziabad used to be a key transport hub in Uttar Pradesh due to its huge industrial base and its status as one of the largest cities in the western region of Uttar Pradesh. The city is a major connecting point with other towns of the state, attracting both large fleets and several small fleets into the area. But industrial slowdown
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