Project Savdhaan, a special initiative by Sterlite Technologies Ltd’s STL Academy to intensify Covid-19 awareness in India, aims to address the challenges of a lack of knowledge on social distancing, precautionary measures, and required medical assistance. These drawbacks, STL’s chief human resources officer Anjali Byce points out, increase the risk of the virus passing to a healthier population.
The STL Academy, an endeavour by the digital technology company to create an ecosystem of optical fibre professionals, conducted an online awareness drive on Covid-19, in association with Telecom Sector Skill Council (TSSC), Infrastructure Equipment Skill Council (IESC) and Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge (TASK). Over 100,000 youth registered with these not-for-profit organisations attended the online workshop. The academy has a large pool of professionals and students registered with it.
Broadcast on 27 March from Hyderabad and later hosted on Stluniversity.com for general viewing, the one-hour workshop was conducted by medical experts who covered topics such as prevention and risk, social distancing and community-based measures to mitigate the spread of the virus.
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On-ground sessions conduct awareness sessions to dispel fallacies about the pandemic