Coronavirus: Bharat Diamond Bourse Gives Financial Aid to Workers

(IDEX Online) - India's Bharat Diamond Bourse has donated $159,000 to help workers hit by COVID-19.

It has also been helping to feed up to poor residents living near the Bandra Kurla Complex where it's based, in Mumbai.

And it has made one-off subsistence payments of $66 each to 800 daily-wage sorters and traders and plans to make more.

The $159,000 donation was made to the chief minister of relief aid in the west-Indian state of Maharashtra, through the Gem and Jewellery Relief Foundation, a trust the bourse established jointly with GJEPC (Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council).

Bourse president Anoop Mehta said: "It is our sincere effort to support our countrymen in these unprecedented times that we are facing and I am grateful to the diamond fraternity and all our members to have made our contribution and support services a reality."

Picture shows aerial view of Mumbai