The New Mangalore Port Trust(NMPT) has extended a helping hand to daily wage labourers working for the Indian Coast Guard here by providing relief materials during the lockdown period.Coast Guard commander DIG S B Venkatesh, a member of the CSR committee of NMPT, thanked the port trust chairman A V Ramana for the noble gesture.Venkatesh said the officers and personnel of the ICG will contribute one day's basic pay from their monthly salary from March till September towards the PM-CARES Fund.The public sector iron ore company KIOCL Limited contributed Rs 10.10 crore to the PM-Cares Fund as part of its corporate social responsibility and also one-day salary collectively by all the employees amounting to Rs 23.72 lakh, company chairman-cum-managing director M V Subba Rao said in a release here.Besides this, the company deposited Rs 4.46 lakh to the Food Corporation India for procuring 200 quintals of rice for providing to migrant labourers in Dakshina Kannada district, on a request from the DK Deputy Commissioner.KIOCL also distributed personal protective equipment(PPE) to healthcare workers and sponsored grocery items to BPL card holders in the district.
