Kolkata: Augmenting its contribution to society amidst Covid-19, Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE), a Mini Ratna Category 1 defence PSU and a leading warship building company of India, has signed an MoU for installation of medical oxygen plant under its CSR initiatives at Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratisthan (RMSP).

The 26 NM3 capacity oxygen plant will be installed at the hospital premise of RMSP. Recently, GRSE set up a dedicated Covid-19 vaccination centre at its main unit where over 1500 permanent and contractual employees of GRSE along with 112 family members have been successfully vaccinated.

The company has also signed MoUs with two medical institutions in Kolkata -- Saroj Gupta Cancer Centre and Research Institute, Thakurpukur, and Bharat Sevashram Sangha Hospital, Joka, to set up two medical oxygen plants and donated two ambulances to Ramakrishna Mission, Belur Math.

GRSE stands in solidarity with the people of India in battling the second wave of Covid-19 and as a responsible corporate entity is committed to taking up different developmental projects as a part of its CSR initiative towards improving the quality of lives of people thereby making a meaningful difference. /BI/