the thirdlargest tractor manufacturer of the country employs around 10000 employees including permanent and contract workers the company has the capacity to produce threelakh tractors annually new delhi in order to support its staff executives and contract workers homegrown tractor manufacturer sonalika international tractors have already paid salary and wages for all its employees working on its plant and offices for the 20 days of march as a part of broadbased measures a top company executive informed etauto it has also assured that full payment will be done subsequently for the period of the lockdown the tractor manufacturing company has completely halted its production till 31st march 2020 and also advised employees to work from home those who have officebased roles advt raman mittal executive director sonalika group told etauto we are in the midst of a global pandemic at this time we will go the extra mile to support our employees and their families we have decided to ensure full wages to all our contractual workmen adhoc staff apprentice and trainees across our plants businesses and offices during the lockdown tenurehe said we have released an advance salary of 20 days for the month of march to all sonalika employees for them to manage possible exigencies the thirdlargest tractor manufacturer of the country employs around 10000 employees including permanent and contract workers the company has the capacity to produce threelakh tractors annually looking at the lockdown period till march 31st the company expects monthly production to go down in the range of 2025 percent read alsocovid19 hero motocorp advances monthly payments to contract workersjk tyre top management takes salary cut 25 pay cut for chairman singhania the biggest concern is our export markets as everything is affecting the shipping lines that is affecting bigger shipments more also next month production will be affected as there will be supply chain disruptions and other issues said mittalas part of various measures taken to society and community support the company is also in touch with local medical facilities and hospitals in new delhi region and home state of punjab about how the company can help them to prepare better in the light of spreading pandemic of coronavirus advt i think these are the first response centers for anybody and they definitely need everybody to pitch in right now at the time of crisis mittal added by deepanshu taumar etauto published on mar 24 2020 at 0558 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download