Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited announced that from April 3, 2020 the Company resumed partial operation of its various plants at Vadodara and Dahej Complexes in phased manner considering the requirements of various municipal corporations and other essential industries after obtaining necessary permissions from the concerned Authorities. In the third week of April 2020, necessary permission from District Collector was obtained to start construction activities at site. As per the approval, it was required to follow certain guidelines strictly and it started construction activities from April 25, 2020 onwards with limited manpower. Effective from May 1, 2020, all plants at its Baroda Complex have started operating at full capacity. At present, some of the plants at Dahej Complex are being operated at full capacity, whereas, some plants are operating at 80% to 95% capacities due to manpower and marketing constraints. The company would decide to operate the plants at full capacities based on availability of manpower and the demand of its products. The functioning of the administrative and other support office work of the company has been resumed effective from June 2020 after relaxing various restrictions by the Government.