NFL employees pledge a day’s salary to PM CARES Fund

New Delhi: The employees of National Fertilizers Limited (NFL) have contributed a day's salary amounting to Rs 88 lakh to the Prime Minister's citizen assistance and relief in emergency situations (PM CARES) Fund to fight the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the country. Prior to this, the company had already contributed an amount of Rs 63.94 lakh under corporate social responsibility (CSR) towards the PM CARES Fund for the same objective.

With this, the total amount contributed by the company to the above fund stands at Rs 1.52 crore. The news was shared by NFL's Chairman & Managing Director (C&MD) Manoj Mishra on Thursday, after consulting the employees' unions and officers' associations. "With 3,419 employees in the company, it makes a contribution of around Rs 88 Lakh," he said.

Commenting on the contribution, Mishra said, "NFL believes in supporting the efforts of the government whenever any such need arises. Our contribution is a step towards this."

National Fertilizers Limited (NFL)

National Fertilizers Limited (NFL) is a Miniratna PSU under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers. It is an India state-owned producer of chemical fertilizers, organic fertilizers and industrial chemicals. As of 2018, it was the second-largest producer of fertilizers in India. NFL, incorporated in 1979, is India's largest Central Public Sector Enterprise (Government of India Undertaking) in the Fertilizer Sector with a turnover of over Rs 75 billion. It is the second-largest producer of key fertiliser Urea in India. NFL has five gas-based ammonia-urea plants viz Nangal and Bathinda in Punjab, Panipat in Haryana and two at Vijaipur (Madhya Pradesh).