Jaiprakash Associates has informed that owing to extremely volatile situation in second wave of Covid-19 pandemic, the cement consumption centers of UP, M.P. & Bihar are closed. Local lockdown has been announced by the State administration. The Company has suspended operations of its cement plant at MP and UP from the close of Saturday, 1st May, 2021. The Company shall be undertaking maintenance activities of these plants during this time. However, this is a dynamic situation and the company is monitoring it continuously. Decision on resumption of operations will be taken after evaluation of the situation. Further, the operations of one stream out of three streams of Kanpur Fertilizers & Chemicals, Company's material subsidiary have also been suspended due to large no of staff being found corona positive. Take the above information on record of the exchanges.
The above information is a part of company’s filings submitted to BSE.
