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The statement, released on social media, said the company's "best-in-class social security schemes will help ensure an honorable standard of living for their families."
"The family will get the last drawn salary till 60 years of age of the deceased employee/nominee," the company said.
The statement said the company would bear all the educational expenses of children of frontline employees, "who as part of their jobs met with an unfortunate death due to Covid-19."
The aid plan launched by
Almost all states have imposed lockdowns because of the widespread virus outbreak that has infected millions and killed hundreds of thousands in the second-most populous nation on the planet.
It has recorded nearly 27 million cases and is now the global epicenter of the pandemic, adding most of the daily infections in the world.
The company, which employs about 65,000 people, supplied oxygen to hospitals that ran perilously low supplies of the life-saving gas, according to a government statement on
Many Covid-19 victims died gasping for air because they could not get medical oxygen.
In 2019-20, the revenue of Tata companies, taken together, was
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