Producer Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Telefilms Group has commenced a vaccination drive to inoculate its staff members at Balaji Telefilms, ALTBalaji and Balaji Motion Pictures Private Limited. The drive is being held at two centres on Thursday, namely the Balaji house and Killick Nixon Studios, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The programme will cover two shots of the vaccine for all their on-roll and off-roll staff.
"One of the biggest fights the country is currently facing is against the novel Coronavirus. As a step towards safeguarding our staff, we have initiated a Covid-19 vaccination drive at two centres," Zulfiqar Khan, Group COO, Balaji Telefilms, said.
He added: "As an organisation, we have always believed that our peop le are our biggest assets, and we'll continue to look out for them."
Earlier, a Covid vaccination drive for workers of the film industry was started at Yash Raj Films (YRF) studios, which aims to inoculate around 4000 workers in the first phase.
The drive, initiated by filmmaker Aditya Chopra, was to facilitate the resumption on day-to-day activity in Bollywood.
YRF aim to vaccinate 30,000 registered members of the FWICE (Federation of Western India Cine Employees). The company has already vaccinated its employees in an earlier drive that happened within the YRF Studios in Mumbai.