Hero Motocorp Hands Over Unique First Responder Vehicles to Community Health Centres in Alwar

As part of its ongoing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives towards the COVID-19 relief efforts, Hero MotoCorp, the world’s largest manufacturer of motorcycles and scooters, today handed over two first-responder vehicles to authorities at the Community Health Centres in Neemrana and Mundawar, in the Alwar district of Rajasthan. 

These unique and utilitarian vehicles will be useful for reaching out to patients in rural and remote areas and comfortably moving them to the nearest hospitals.  First Responder has been custom-built as an accessory on the powerful Xtreme 200R motorcycles of Hero MotoCorp.

The First Responder has been equipped with a full stretcher with a foldable hood mounted on the side, essential medical equipment such as a detachable first-aid kit, oxygen cylinder, fire extinguisher and other safety features such as LED Flasher Lights, foldable beacon light, emergency wireless public announcement system and siren.

The two First Responders vehicles from Hero MotoCorp were handed over to Shri Manjeet Dharampal Choudhary, Member of the State Legislative Assembly of Rajasthan, Mundawar (Neemrana), Alwar.

They have been designed and developed through a collaborative initiative by the engineers at Hero’s Centre of Innovation and Technology (CIT) in Jaipur and the New Model Centre (NMC) at the Company’s manufacturing facility in Gurgaon.

Hero MotoCorp is in the process of manufacturing several more of these First Responders, which will be handed over to local health authorities in other parts of the country.

Any kind of protectionism is harmful, says Honeywell chief

Any kind of protectionism is going to be harmful for the world economy, a top official of Honeywell International, a Fortune 100 Global diversified technology and manufacturing firm, said on Thursday.

"Any kind of protectionism in India or China or elsewhere is very harmful or worrisome for the global economy", said David Cote, Honeywell's Chairman and CEO, reacting to US President Barack Obama's
announcement about end of tax incentives to companies which create jobs overseas in places like Bangalore.

" I am not against creating jobs anywhere. I do know that anything that stops globalisation activity, any protectionism will be very harmful", he told reporters here.

"A great number of businesses would be seeing protectionism as negative, as bad. And I do hope that people in the Congress (US Congress) realise that you can't love jobs and hate people who create them", he said.

He said Honeywell's new "green diesel" has already been used in test flights in New Zealand.

"The green diesel, which is a drop-in diesel, which can be made from plants like algae has already flown test flights in New Zealand", he said to a query on the firm's speciality materials business.

"We have also come up with a new fertiliser called Ammonium Sulphate Nitrate", he said.

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