The Bengaluru-based Embassy Office Parks REIT has joined hands with a number of its corporate occupiers to provide hand sanitisers to about 920,000 students and supervisors, across 2,879 centres in Karnataka for each day of the Karnataka State Board Secondary School examinations. The exams, which were postponed from March because of the Covid-19 pandemic, are now scheduled to start on 25 June and end on 4 July.
“Embassy REIT and our 160-plus marquee tenant occupiers have a deep commitment towards our communities,” says Mike Holland, CEO. “Our Embassy Office Parks Corporate Connect programme is focused on collaborating with our occupiers to address needs of the community in which we operate.”
Cerner, Cognizant, L&T Technology Services and AXA XL – all of which have offices in Embassy – have collaborated with the trust and invested to buy and distribute the sanitisers. “We are happy to be able to step up and augment the efforts to enhance the safety of students who will be appearing for their state-level exams by reducing pandemic risks,” Holland says.
At Cerner, Lead Programme Manager Domnic Prashanth says, “We have been keen to do our part in supporting actions taken to fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. We agreed immediately when Embassy REIT approached us to join them in collaboratively giving back to the society during this time.”
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Karnataka education minister S. Suresh Kumar accepts sanitisers for students