Tata Trusts has commenced airlifting crucial supplies for the nationwide deployment to support India’s Covid-19 interventions, with the help of Tata International Ltd, the Group’s global trading and distribution arm. The imported supplies, which include Personal Protection Equipment kits (coveralls, masks, gloves and goggles) N95/KN95 masks and Surgical masks of various grades, are being transported through Air India aircrafts. 

As per a statement put out by the Tata Trust, “The consignment, of about one crore individual units, will arrive in multiple batches and will be deployed where these are most needed across the country through the coming weeks. The total value committed so far to the sourcing of such materials is about Rs. 150 crores.” The Trusts’ intervention comes on the heels of Ratan Tata’s statement, claiming “urgent emergency resources need to be deployed to cope with the needs of fighting the COVID 19 crisis, which is one of the toughest challenges the human race will face.” 

Tata International Ltd is headed by Managing Director, Noel Tata, also on the Board of Tata Trusts, and is the half-brother of Tata Trust Chairman, Ratan Tata.