Coronavirus impact: FMCGs on toes to keep manufacturing on track

Workforce is down to 25 per cent in many units. Some are even thinner at 15 per cent attendance only

The lockdown in several Indian cities to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak has had an unintended consequence: Manufacturing of essential items has been hit hard. 

State governments on Sunday and Monday had exempted makers of groceries and staples from its list of manufacturers included in the lockdown to ensure supply of essential goods and services wasn't hampered. 

But with people unable to move around and strict enforcement of section 144  in many places, chief executive officers of fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies admit that running factories has been a challenge. 

Workforce is down to 25 per cent in many units.