Blue Dart ranked amongst the ‘Top 50 of India’s Best Companies to Work For – 2020’

Won the elite ‘Laureate Medal’ for being in the top 100 best organizations to have been featured in ‘India’s Best Companies to Work For’ list for 10 years or more. 

 

Bengaluru, 26^th June 2020 : Blue Dart, India’s leading logistics services provider, as part of Deutsche Post DHL Group (DPDHL), has been ranked amongst the Top 50 of India’s Best Companies to Work For – 2020 by the Great Place to Work® (GPTW) Institute and The Economic Times. In addition, Blue Dart has been awarded with the elite ‘Laureate Medal’ for being in the top 100 best organizations to have been featured in ‘India’s Best Companies to Work For’ list for 10 years. 

 

Commenting on being ranked amongst India’s Best Companies to Work For – 2020, Balfour Manuel, Managing Director, Blue Dart Express Limited said, “We are extremely honoured that Blue Dart has been recognised amongst the Top 50 of India’s Best Companies to Work For – 2020. We are even happier that our company has received the elite ‘Laureate Medal’ for featuring in the Top 100 Organizations recognised by Great Place to Work® for 10 years in a row. Blue Dart has always been an organisation that prioritizes its people. Our Blue Darters, the heart of our business, are the ones who make us market leaders with strong brand equity and market leadership. It is with their consistent prowess that we can call ourselves a Provider of Choice and an Investment of Choice to our customers. It is what makes us ensure that we remain an Employer of Choice for them. Through our ‘People First Philosophy’, we continue to invest in our people and create an enabling environment for their all-round development, which in turn drives and exceeds our customer and stakeholder expectations at all times. I am humbled to be part of this team.”

 

Rajendra Ghag, CHRO, Blue Dart Express Limited added, “We understand that the foundation of our business are our Blue Darters. ‘Highly engaged Blue Darters encourage Happy Customers’; this has been our motto from the very beginning. At Blue Dart, we understand that a good foundation for an organisation stems from strong brand values. We therefore instil, in our teams, our four values of Passion, Can Do, Right First Time and As One. We ensure our teams are taken care of through various HR initiatives, a few of which include, the Death Benevolent Fund (DBF) which aims to help resolve the financial crisis of the family rising due to the death of a team member as well as Upstairs, a program that aims to help children of team members by offering a scholarship program that provides them with Rs.1,00,000 per year along with a mentor.”

 

Since its inception in 1983, Blue Dart has been an organisation with a great workplace culture and strong talent retention. Most of the senior management team consists of home grown talent who have risen through the ranks. The organisation encourages growth and provides ample opportunity to skilled individuals ensuring they have a multitude of day one Blue Darters, including the current Managing Director, Balfour Manuel.

 

Recognized for their Best Practices such as the ‘Blue Way’ delivery program, an innovative initiative that allows every Blue Darter to participate in last mile delivery to ensure customer delight, Blue Dart paves the way as an organization that will always keep its people first and ensures dignity of labour. The Blue Way program sees the Senior Management Team, including the Managing Director, part-take in the delivery process. Blue Dart is South Asia’s undisputed express logistics leader that drives a culture of innovation, agility, excellence with a high focus on customer centricity.

 

Every year the Great Place to Work® study, which assesses the experience of over 12 million employees in more than 10,000 organisations across industries, recognises ‘India’s Best Companies to Work For’ based on their employee survey and people practices assessment. Bifurcating this further, Great Place to Work® (GPTW) Institute further recognizes 100 Best Organisations with an employee strength of over 500 which represent over 21 industry sectors.

 

GPTW primarily uses 3 dimensions to evaluate and identify the best cultures:

• The first dimension measures the quality of employee experience through their globally validated survey instrument known as Trust Index^TM. The survey helps in seeking anonymous feedback from employees.
• The second dimension is called the Culture Audit^TM, a proprietary tool of the Institute that evaluates the people practices of an organisation, covering the entire employee life-cycle.
• The third dimension is called Great Place To Work FOR ALL^TM and ensures that everyone irrespective of their job role, tenure, age or gender at the Best Workplaces is having a consistently positive experience.
  
   
  
  As part of the study, organisations take the Great Place to Work® assessment for benchmarking, action planning and recognition. Great Place to Work® Institute’s methodology is recognized as rigorous and objective and is considered as the gold standard for defining great workplaces across business, academia and government organizations.

 

 

 

 

About Blue Dart:

Blue Dart Express Ltd., South Asia's premier express air and integrated transportation & distribution company, offers secure and reliable delivery of consignments to over 35,000 locations in India. As part of Deutsche Post DHL Group’s DHL eCommerce Solutions division, Blue Dart accesses the largest and most comprehensive express and logistics network worldwide, covering over 220 countries and territories, and offers an entire spectrum of distribution services including air express, freight forwarding, supply chain solutions, customs clearance etc.

 

The Blue Dart team drives market leadership through its motivated people, dedicated air and ground capacity, cutting-edge technology, wide range of innovative, vertical specific products and value-added services to deliver unmatched standards of service quality to its customers. Blue Dart's market leadership is further validated by its position as the nation’s most innovative and awarded express logistics company for exhibiting reliability, superior brand experience and sustainability which include recognition as one of ‘India's Best Companies to Work For’ by The Great Place to Work® Institute, India, ranked amongst ‘Best Multinational Workplaces in Asia’ by The Great Place to Work® Institute, Asia,  voted a ‘Superbrand’ and ‘Reader’s Digest Most Trusted Brand’, listed as one of Fortune 500’s ‘India's Largest Corporations’ and Forbes ‘India's Super 50 Companies’ to name a few.

 

Blue Dart fulfils its social responsibility of climate protection (GoGreen), disaster management (GoHelp) and education (GoTeach)  through programs

 

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Airtel Promises to go the “Extra Mile for its Customers

Declares war on service failure and targets resolution of every customer query

Bengaluru,  June 2020 :  Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), India’s largest integrated telco, is further raising the bar as part of its mission to deliver best-in-class services to customers.

Keeping consumer obsession at the core of its DNA, Airtel today said that it has set itself a target of answering and resolving every single customer query, learn quickly from failures and ensure they don’t get repeated. And the company is taking this message to customers across India through a bold multi-channel marketing campaign [‘watch it here https://youtu.be/Gqe3uJLLV3c].

The current times have put telecom services and reliable connectivity at the core of the daily lives of customers. Be it Work from Home, Virtual Classrooms, Online shopping, or Digital Entertainment, telecom networks have become the backbone for accomplishing most things from within the safety of our homes.

Consumer centricity has always been at the heart of everything that Airtel does, but during these testing times, the brand has realized that a network provider’s responsibility towards its customers has never been greater. Airtel acknowledges that it not only has the responsibility to provide access to high-quality telecom services but also to give answers to all their service related queries by responding and resolving them in a quick and transparent manner.

Says Shashwat Sharma, Chief Marketing Officer, Bharti Airtel, “The relationship between Airtel and its customers has never been more important, and to serve them even better we have decided to take our customer obsession to the next level. We know that "ZERO questions" is an IMPOSSIBLE utopian thought especially for a telecom brand, but that won’t stop us from trying because we know that the closer we get to ZERO, the happier our customers will be. We promise to be humble, learn every time we fail and be relentless in our approach. For us, this is not just a campaign, we are now re-engineering the entire organization towards this goal and are obsessed with building a culture of consumer centricity.”

The company has already taken big strides in this journey and these are some of its key recent initiatives to make sure that customers get the best possible service experience:

Network Technology: In the last three years, Airtel has invested over Rs 70,000 crores in high-speed network rollouts. Airtel has led the introduction of new technologies such as pre-5G Massive MIMO and Carrier Aggregation. The result is Airtel being consistently rated as India’s top mobile network by multiple experts.

More recently, Airtel became the first mobile operator in India to launch Voice over Wi-Fi to solve the indoor coverage issues faced by its customers. Today, millions of happy customers enjoy seamless indoor coverage over Airtel Vo-Wi-Fi.

For its busy postpaid consumers, Airtel’s launched Platinum Network. This gives its premium users priority in both network as well as services across their touch-points, so that network and telecom related issues don’t disrupt their hectic schedules.

Digital Gateways: To help customers recharge during COVID-19 lockdown, Airtel launched ‘Superhero’ - a first of its kind program that allowed Airtel customers to recharge the prepaid accounts of fellow Airtel customers through Airtel Thanks app. For every recharge, the Super-hero makes a 4% retail commission. This helped millions of customers who don’t have access to online recharge options or are not digitally savvy. Over a million Airtel customers are registered as Superheroes.

Culture of Customer Obsession: The Airtel Management Board meets every morning to review customer queries, resolution mechanisms and timelines, and the learnings from customer feedback.           

Airtel’s new campaign will run across TV, Digital and Print to communicate the company’s promise to customers. The campaign has been conceived by Dentsu-Taproot, led by Pallavi Chakravarti and team. To watch the TVC click here https://youtu.be/Gqe3uJLLV3c.

About Bharti Airtel Limited

Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 18 countries across Asia and Africa. Headquartered in New Delhi, India, the company ranks amongst the top 3 mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers. In India, the company's product offerings include wireless services, mobile commerce, fixed line services, high speed home broadband, DTH, enterprise services including national & international long distance services to carriers. In the rest of the geographies, it offers wireless services and mobile commerce. Bharti Airtel had over 423 million customers across its operations at the end of March 2020.

To know more please visit, www.airtel.com

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MIT World Peace University commences a 4 – Day Conference on Eradication of Biological and Chemical Weapons

Aims to spread awareness and awaken the world against the threat of Bio - Chemical warfare

Bengaluru, 23^rd June 2020 - MIT World Peace University which is one of India’s leading education institute, announced the inauguration of a 4 -Day International virtual Conference on a burning issue which is Eradication of biological and chemical weapons. 

MIT World Peace University which staunchly believes in undertaking initiatives that aid in World Peace has consciously decided to spread awareness through this conference.  The conference aims to bring together all the nations together to build a mechanism to end the threat of bio warfare by establishing a legal discourse towards curbing research and development of such weapons. 

Relevant to the current times where the global pandemic COVID has shaken the world with its severe effects and continues to threaten countries even with medical advanced technology.  There have been multiple speculations which have been raised regarding the origin of the virus, some claiming it to be a trigger for a biological warfare.  Biological Weapons Convention and Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons which are the two important bodies which are tasked to getting rid of weapons of mass destruction, unfortunately do not hold an authority to abolish any decision. 

The four-day conference will witness eminent stalwarts from various fields deliberating discussing and sharing their expertise on different aspects of bio warfare and to jointly contribute towards creating a legal framework.  Some of the prominent personalities include by UNESCO Chair Holder Prof. Dr. Vishwanath D. Karad - Founder President, MIT World Peace University, Founder Executive President, WPC, MAEER’s MIT Group of Institutions, Hon’ble Justice K. G. Balakrishnan - Former Chief Justice of India, Former Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRC),  Hon’ble Dr. Rajendra Singh - Well Known Water Conservationist (Waterman of India) & Chairman, Tarun Bharat Sangh, Hon’ble GVV Sarma, , IAS, Member secretary , National disaster management authority Government of India ,Hon’ble, Dr.A. Velumani - Founder, Chairman and Managing Director, Thyrocare Technologies Ltd. & Former Scientist, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Founder and Managing Director, Nuclear Healthcare Ltd. (NHL), Hon’ble Shri. Arif Mohammed Khan - Hon'ble Governor of Kerala, Former Cabinet Minister, Energy and Civil Aviation, Govt. of India, Hon’ble Prof. Dr. Atanu Basu - Director Grade Scientist G, ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Department of Health Research, Min of Health & FW, Govt of India & Adjunct Professor, School of Life Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi. The conference comprises of a marathon of diverse sessions focusing on various facets of the Bio/Chem warfare.

During the inaugural ceremony Rahul V. Karad, Vice President – MAEER’s MIT Group, Executive President –MIT WPU, founder – BCS, MITSOG, NTC, NWP, Sarpanch Sandsad said “There is a pressing need to create a global voice for all nations to work in harmony in order to develop human safety. Through this conference our agenda is to bring together all the nations under one umbrella to evolve a mechanism to eradicate bio/ chemical – weapons and also to establish a legal discourse towards the restriction of the research and development of bio-chem warfare”.

Speaking on the inaugural ceremony Dr. N T Rao, Vice chancellor, MIT-WPU said “In this International Conference various intellectual minds have come together to make an appeal to the United Nations to destroy this impending threat caused by chemical and biological weapons. At MIT WPU, believers of world peace collectively speak, deliberate and come to a conclusion and pass the resolution for the betterment of the world “.

Speaking on the occasion Pravin V Patil, CEO, Centre for Industry – Academia Partnership, MIT- WPU said “We are truly overwhelmed to see the support and response from the people, till now we have had over 5000 registrations across the globe.  We are glad to organize this International conference as it is a platform bringing together global spokespeople to discuss the gravity of Bio warfare”.

Through this conference an effort will be made to awaken the youth globally to the dangers of such bio-hazards, which should be condemned with an intent of consolidating the message of ‘safe and secure mankind’.  The conference will also focus on the need to address the issue of preparedness for future so that we can safeguard ourselves against such global adversities.

Appended below are the session wise details:

DAY 1 - Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Session One (1600hrs to 1730hrs) 

Topic - 5W's of the Biologiacal and chemical warfare 

Eminent Speakers -

Hon’ble Dr.A. Velumani - Founder, Chairman and Managing Director, Thyrocare Technologies Ltd. & Former Scientist, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Founder and Managing Director, Nueclear Healthcare Ltd. (NHL), 

(Dr.) Ram Athavale -Consultant and Professor, Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Security and Risk Mitigation

 Lt. General Dr. D.B. Shekatkar - Chancellor,  Sikkim University, President, Forum  For Integrated National Security (FINES),Former Chairman , Committee of Experts on Re-Organising India's National Defence and Re-Balancing  of  Defence  Budget (Shekatkar Committee) 

Session Two (1800hrs to 2000hrs)

Topic - Pandemic: Time to prepare and prevent than repair and repent 

Eminent Speakers - 

Hon’ble Dr. (Ms.) Gagandeep Kang - Executive Director, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute

Hon’ble Shri. Arif Mohammed Khan - Hon'ble Governor of Kerala, Former Cabinet Minister, Energy and Civil Aviation, Govt. of India

Hon’ble Prof. Dr. AtanuBasu - Director Grade Scientist G, ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Department of Health Research, Min of Health & FW, Govt of India & Adjunct Professor, School of

Day 2 - Wednesday, 24^th June 2020,

Session 3: (1400 hrs to 1530 hrs)

Topics: Invisible Enemy, Visible Destruction: Failure of Science and Global Governance?

Eminent Speakers - 

Hon’ble Shri. Shashank - Former Foreign Secretary of India & India's Ex. Ambassador to Denmark, South Korea and Libya

Hon’ble Padma Vibhushan Shri. G. Madhavan Nair - Former Chairman, ISRO & Secretary to the Department of Space, Govt. of India and Chairman, Space Commission

Amb. Shri. Anil K. Trigunayat (Retd. IFS) - Former Ambassador of India to Jordan, Libya and Malta, President, MIICCIA Chamber of Commerce Secretary, Association of Indian Diplomats ( Former Ambassadors) and Distinguished Fellow Vivekananda International Foundation

Session 4 : (1600 hrs to 1730 hrs)

Topics : Biological & Chemical Weapons: Siding with Angels or Demons?

Eminent Speakers – 

Mr. Andrew Weber - Non-resident Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center

Hon’ble Dr. S. J. S. Flora - DIRECTOR, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research – Raebareli and DIRECTOR (Additional Charge), National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research – Mohali, Ministry of Chemical & Fertilizers, Department of Pharmaceuticals, Govt. of India

Hon’ble Amb. Shri. Rajendra M. Abhyankar - Former Foreign Secretary of India and Professor of Practice of Diplomacy and Public Affairs, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University

Session 5 : (1800 hrs to 2000 hrs)

Topics : Special Session on the Stories of Survivors*

Eminent Speakers – 

Hon’ble Ms. Laxmi Agarwal - Campaigner, Stop Acid Attacks Mission

Hon’ble Ms. Rachana Dhingra - International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal

Day 3 - Thursday, 25^th June 2020,

Session 6 : (1400 hrs to 1530 hrs)

Topics : Redefining Defence Doctrine: Border Security to Human Security

Eminent Speakers – 

Hon’ble Lt. Gen.(Retd.) Nirbhay Sharma - PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VSM , Former Governor, Mizoram & Arunachal Pradesh

Hon’ble Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Zameer Uddin Shah - Former Vice Chancellor, Aligarh Muslim University

Hon’ble Padma Shri. Prakash Singh - IPS (Retd.), Chairman, Indian Police Foundation and Institute, Former DG, BSF, Former DGP, Uttar Pradesh & Assam, Former Member, National Security Advisory Board & Member, Justice Verma Committee

Session 7: 1600 hrs to 1730 hrs

Topics : COVID-19: Virus in the Body or Soul?

Eminent Speakers – 

Hon’ble Maulana Mahmood Madani - General Secretary, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind & Former Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha

Speech by the Eminent Speaker Honble Shri. Anil Pradhan - Founder, International Public School for Rural Innovation (IPSFRI)

Acharya Shri. Pundrik Goswami - Sriman Madhva Gaudeshwar Vaishnava Acharya (Vrindavan, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh)

Hon’ble Dr. Lobsang Sangay - President, Central Tibetan Administration (CTA)

Dr. Kavita A. Sharma – President, South Asian University

Session 8: 1800 hrs to 2000 hrs

Topics : How Universities can Contribute to Curb Misuse of Weapons of Mass Destruction?

Day 4 - Friday, 26^th June 2020,

Session 9: 1400 hrs to 1530 hrs

Topics : Climate Change, Poverty & Pandemic: Is it time to recalibrate SDGs?

Eminent Speakers – 

Hon’ble Shri. Kartikeya Sarabhai - Director, Centre for Environment Education (CEE), Ahmedabad

Session 10: 1600 hrs to 1730 hrs

Topics : Role of UN in Eliminating Weapons of Mass Destruction : Priorities and Prospects, from the eyes of youth

Session Valedictory: 1800 hrs to 2000 hrs

Topics Legal Framework for Implementing CWC & BWC

Eminent Speakers – 

Shri. Rahul V. Karad – Executive President, MIT World Peace University, Pune & Chief Initiator, MIT SOG, Founder, BCS,s NTC, NWP

Dr. N. T. Rao - Vice Chancellor, MIT World Peace University, Pune

Sharing Future Roadmap and Vision of the Conference by UNESCO Chair Holder Prof. Dr. Vishwanath D. Karad - Founder President, MIT World Peace University, Founder Executive President, WPC, MAEER’s MIT Group of Institutions

For further details on the international conference and registration do log on to www.ebcw2020.com 

 

  

 

Ola Autos to now have Protective Partition Screens and mandatory fumigation under the RideSafeIndia initiative

●        All Autos on the Ola platform are protected by the 5 layers of safety

●        A dedicated network of 100+ fumigation centres across the country will enable mandatory fumigation every 48 hrs

Bangalore, 24 June 2020: As a part of RideSafeIndia initiative launched recently, Ola, India’s leading mobility platform and one of the world’s largest ride-hailing companies, announced their initiative towards ensuring superior vehicle standards for Ola Autos thereby increasing access to safe and convenient mobility solutions. All Ola Autos on the platform will be fitted with a protective partition screen between the driver-partner and passenger section as an additional layer of protection to ensure physical separation.

With safety of the customers and drivers being the topmost priority, Ola is committed to investing in this category and ensuring the hygiene protocols and screens are being used across all the 120+ cities where Ola Autos operate in. Ola has set up a network of over 100 fumigation centres across the country to enable mandatory fumigation for all vehicles every 48 hours.

With social distancing being the order of the day, Ola Auto allows the customers to avail services at their doorstep making commuting convenient and hassle free for all. As part of its RideSafeIndia initiative, Ola has enhanced cleanliness protocols, implemented vehicle sanitisation practices and incorporated technological advancements, for Ola Autos at no extra charge. Ola’s proprietary selfie authentication technology will also ensure that driver-partners are wearing masks while serving on the platform. Ola Autos also enable drivers to follow social distancing as they do not have to come in proximity to crowds at demand hotspots or auto-stands.

The company continues to drive ‘5 layers of safety’ across all Ola Auto rides, which requires both driver-partners and passengers to compulsorily wear masks, regular health checks for driver-partners and sanitization of the exposed parts of the vehicle before every ride.  All Ola Auto drivers are equipped with hygiene kits consisting of masks, sanitisers and cleaning equipment. To ensure highest standards of hygiene and safety on every ride, all autos are fumigated thrice a week. A flexible cancellation policy has also been introduced to allow either party to cancel the ride if the other is not adhering to the guidelines.

 Anand Subramanian, Spokesperson for Ola, said, “Being ubiquitous to India, Auto-Rickshaws are one of the most economical and widely used means to commute in our country. With these added safety measures for Ola Auto, both driver-partners and citizens are assured of a comfortable and safe ride. Ola’s five layers of safety brings the assurance of a high quality ride, with the affordability and access of Ola Auto as a preferred first and last mile mobility solution.”

Complying with State government regulations, Ola Autos will operate with no more than one driver and two passengers. The full list of cities where Ola Auto is operational can be found here. Please note that this list will be regularly updated.

Here is a video highlighting all safety protocols that are followed by Ola Autos

About Ola:

Ola is India’s largest mobility platform and one of the world’s largest ride-hailing companies, serving 250+ cities across India, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK including key global markets like London and Sydney. The Ola app offers mobility solutions by connecting customers to drivers and a wide range of vehicles across bikes, auto-rickshaws, metered taxis, and cabs, enabling convenience and transparency for hundreds of millions of consumers and over 2.5 million driver-partners.

Ola’s core mobility offering in India is supplemented by its electric-vehicle arm, Ola Electric and Ola Fleet Technologies, India’s largest fleet management business. With its acquisition of Ridlr, India’s leading public transportation app and investment in Vogo, a dockless scooter sharing solution, Ola is looking to build mobility for the next billion Indians. Ola also extends its consumer offerings like micro-insurance and credit led payments through Ola Financial Services and a range of owned food brands with India’s largest network of cloud kitchens through Ola Foods.

Ola was founded in 2011 by Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati with a mission to build mobility for a billion people.

For more details, visit www.olacabs.com/media.

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