Cognizant, an information technology company, said on Thursday that it would like to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to over six lakh people in India, including its two lakh employees, their family members, contract workers and support staff. Will bear the expenses. The e-sports company Mobile Premier League (MPL) and NextGen Infinite Datacenter have also decided to vaccinate COVID-19 of their staff. In the country, one by one many companies are coming forward to bear the expenses of their employees and their families.
Cognizant India Chairman and Managing Director Rajesh Nambiar said in an e-mail statement that the last year has been very difficult for India due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He said that during this time his employees played an important role in providing important services to millions of people around the world. Cognizant, through its customers and communities, also extended its services to the personnel serving the people by staying ahead in the Corona period. He said that now that the vaccine of COVID-19 has finally become available to the public, the company has decided to bear the cost of vaccination of more than six lakh people in India.
Many banks, companies have already announced
Earlier, ICICI Bank announced that it would bear the entire cost of corona vaccination of its employees and their family members. The objective of this initiative is to protect its employees and their families from the COVID-19 epidemic. Before that, private and government companies like RIL, Flipkart, Infosys, Capgemini, Accenture, SBI and NTPC have also decided to bear the cost of COVID Vaccination of employees.
Recently, Reliance Industries (RIL) announced to bear the entire cost of vaccination for the prevention of corona virus for its employees.