Nagpur, May 12
Over the last one year, 35,600 (47 per cent) regular and outsourced employees of MSEDCL have been vaccinated against corona outbreak. Out of 75,000 employees of MSEDCL, 35,600 employees have been vaccinated so far.
In the last one and a half years, 6,562 MSEDCL employees were infected with corona, out of which 4,132 have recovered. At present, 2,221 employees are suffering from corona and are undergoing treatment at hospitals and home. In addition to maintaining the power supply to 28 million consumers in the state, MSEDCL has been working on war footing to provide new connections or additional power to hospitals, isolation rooms, oxygen generating industries and vaccination centers in case of emergency, setting aside administrative hurdles. At present, MSEDCL has managed to connect 39 Covid hospitals and 10 oxygen generation projects in the state and provide new electricity connection or increased power load within 24 hours.