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Time of India
15-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
HLL Lifecare reports annual condom production of 221.7 cr
Kerala-based mini ratna public sector unit HLL Lifecare on Tuesday announced that it was manufacturing 221.7 crore condoms annually, cementing its position as one of the largest condom manufacturers in the world. HLL director (marketing) N. Ajit said in a statement that HLL has eight factories across the country. "Of these, five factories produce contraceptive products . The factory in Peroorkada(Kerala) manufactures 124.6 crore condoms annually, while the one in Kanagala (Karnataka) produces 37 crore condoms, 98 lakh oral contraceptive pills (OCPs), 12.5 crore non-steroidal OCPs, and 1.87 crore emergency contraceptive pills. The Kakkanad (Kerala) facility produces 30 crore male condoms and 2.5 crore female condoms annually, while the Airapuram (Kerala) factory manufactures an additional 27.6 crore condoms each year. The factory in Aakkulam (Kerala) annually produces 55 lakh copper-Ts and 25 lakh tubal rings,' he said. According to the data released on the last World AIDS Day , HLL manufactured and distributed more than 5,500 crore condoms over the past 60 years. Ajit also said that Kerala and HLL played a major role in India's success in population control, and that HLL is at the forefront of introducing several new contraceptive products in the country. "In the early days, HLL made condoms available across the country under the brand name 'Nirodh'. At that time, 'Nirodh' was the most popular condom brand. Later, various other brands were launched. However, HLL rapidly grew to become one of the largest manufacturers of contraceptive products in the world," he added. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Motilal Nehru Nagr Bhilai: 1 Trick to Reduce Belly Fat? Home Fitness Hack Shop Now Undo Kerala, Ajit said, has always been at the forefront of national family welfare programmes . 'By the late 1950s, the central government was concerned about the rapid growth of India's population. As part of addressing this concern, the country launched the National Family Welfare Programme. The family planning campaign with the slogan 'Small family, happy family' gained much attention during that time. Back then, condoms had to be imported at a high cost. So, the government decided to manufacture condoms within India itself. The main raw material needed for condom manufacturing is rubber or latex. Since rubber was abundantly available in Kerala, it was decided to set up the condom manufacturing unit here. Thus, in 1966, HLL was established in Thiruvananthapuram under the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare,' he said. Beyond contraceptives, HLL's Manesar Factory in Gurgaon, Haryana, specializes in rapid in-vitro diagnostic test kits; the Pharma Factory in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, produces a range of pharmaceutical products; and the Bhagwanpur Factory in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, is a dedicated AYUSH facility for manufacturing and supplying Ayurvedic and Unani medicines, the HLL Lifecare statement added. Live Events
Time of India
09-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
S M Datta: A chairman with a heart
By Navroze D Dhondy It was late July 1996. As the Indian Airlines aircraft wobbled a bit and landed in Calcutta's Dum Dum airport, I was welcomed by torrential rain and loud cloudburst. The drive to the Oberoi Grand was a long and torturous one, where the Calcutta traffic truly lived up to its reputation…jams, snarls, water-logging, et al. After checking in to the hotel and doing the customary visit to the main Banquet Hall of the hotel where the SURF Carry-bag launch was to be held in a few weeks, I crossed over to the lobby trying to organise a cab to take me across the Howrah bridge to arrange a supplier of gas for the larger-than-life inflatable Dummy pack of Surf. No cabs were available. No Uber / Ola / Rapido in those days to quickly dial up. It was just my second time in Calcutta (the first as teenager from school) and I had no one to call or check with. Suddenly, I heard a soft-spoken voice in the lobby. He came a little closer and asked 'Is there a problem. Aren't you from Lintas?' It was Mr. S M Datta , who at that time was the Deputy Chairman - Hindustan Lever who saw me scurrying around like a headless chicken, trying to organise the cab. I nodded sheepishly and said, 'Yes, Mr. Datta, there is no cab available to go across to Howrah and check out the gas cylinders we need in the coming fortnight for the SURF conference' I had briefly met Mr. Datta at the HLL BackBay reclamation office when I had gone for a meeting with Mr. Shunu Sen- the then Director Marketing at Levers . The brief introduction and hello while he walked out of Shunu's office must have been hardly a minute or so. I was quite sure he wouldn't recognize me……..but he did! In a flash he raised his hand, beckoned a HLL Regional staffer from the Calcutta office and said, 'My work for the day is done, give the car to Navroze to visit Howrah' After 2 weeks was the grand SURF- CarryBag Launch Conference and it was the very first one I organised for Levers, as I had just got transferred from Lintas Delhi to Lintas Bombay. The high and mighty of Levers were all there. It was the first time that SURF was removing the shackles of the good-ole cardboard carton and moving into a more trendy, contemporary plastic carry bag, with an in-built handle. Besides SMD, there was Shunu, Anju Choudhary, Sanjay Khosla, Vindi Banga and Arun Adhikari who were delighted by what we pulled off at the Oberoi Grand despite the many hurdles that Calcutta could create before such an important launch! At the end of the evening, the ever-gracious SMD walked up to shake my hand, and being a man of few words, said, 'well done'. Many a year passed by, and I had moved on from Lintas. It was around 2002, and I had just set up Creatigies. I was on a late-night flight back from Bombay and while pulling my bag out of the boot of the cab, I landed wrenching my lower back. While I was seated in the aisle seat, SMD walked past me and we both nodded in acquaintance with a smile across both faces. Not a word spoken. When he returned from the visit to the aircraft loo, he saw me sitting in a rather awkward posture, with my lower back fairly stiff. 'What happened?' And I explained my lower back spasm. Without saying another word, he pulled down his briefcase, opened the bag, took out a small medicine pouch, and plonked a pill in my hand. 'Have this, it's a painkiller and a muscle relaxant. Will help you feel better' On landing, with a wave and a smile, he walked out of the aircraft. And that was the last I saw of him. SMD. The affable, gentle, Chairman who guided HLL for over 6 years. A few days ago, Mr. S M Datta crossed over to the other side, leaving behind a legacy of a chairman who was humble, humane and heartwarming. RIP, Sir! (The author is the founder and managing director- Creatigies Communications. Views expressed are personal.)
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Business Standard
06-07-2025
- General
- Business Standard
Susim Mukul Datta: Fountain of youth who left a lasting imprint on HLL
Precisely five days after his 89th birthday, Susim Mukul Datta returned to his creator with grace and tranquillity, which, incidentally, is what his name means. This piece is not an elegy or an obituary. It is an intimate portrait of one of India's highly accomplished leaders. As a young trainee in 1967, I was assigned to do a project in Hindustan Lever Limited's (HLL's) Bombay factory. Energetic manufacturing engineers assembled in the canteen at lunchtime, seemingly in a rush to get their share of carrom, bridge, or adda. I felt lonely as a 21-year-old, looking for someone of my age group and lowly rank. And I noticed a tranquil Susim Datta, whom I befriended. 'Hello, I am a trainee of 1967, which batch are you?' I enquired in my friendly best tone. 'Oh, hello, I am 1956,' he replied. 'What! How could a person ten years my senior look so young?' That is a mystery I never uncovered over the next sixty years. Susim was a picture of the ever-youthful Dorian Gray — without the excesses of the character in Oscar Wilde's story! He told me that he was a chemical engineer from Presidency College, and currently the development manager in the factory. Susim spoke of hydrogenation and saponification as though they were his mother tongue. What about Bengali, I ventured. He hummed what seemed to me as soulful Rabindra Sangeet, perhaps the only such recital within the walls of the Mumbai factory managers' canteen! As the years rolled on, he never came through as a backslapping, but instantly connecting person. I thought of him as a reserved, soft spoken, enviably knowledgeable technical geek. It seemed that he knew everything that was worth knowing, and what he did not know was not worth knowing. He did many clever things in the company and rose meteorically, all of which have been recounted in his obituaries. By 1980, he was rumoured to be a potential chairman. In 1990, he became chairman. During his tenure as chairman of HLL, he acquired a reputation as a mergers and acquisitions magician, and as a leader who pushed for aggressive goals in a seemingly non-aggressive manner through his mantra: quality-innovation-collaboration-acquisitions. He presided over one of the longest company general body meetings when he piloted the HLL meeting for the acquisition of Tata Oil Mills Co. He was a picture of patience. This is an intimate portrait and not an obituary. I close with a reference to the only film in which Susim has acted. It was titled Four Men of India, directed by Caryl Doncaster and produced for Unilever and Hindustan Lever by James Carr. BBC showed this film among many others in a Trade Test for Colour Films. In this film, a Sikh salesman is depicted using his sales van to sell soaps in the Himalayas. A Rajasthani man is shown as a migrant to the city to work in a soap factory (I recognised the Jones Stamping Machine at Bombay factory). A supervisor at the factory is shown to have come from Kerala. Finally, an upcoming young engineer from the east is shown in the Calcutta factory, guiding a production supervisor and his team on a dalda packing line. The young engineer was a 25-year-old Susim! If you watch that film now, you will see that the young Susim greatly resembles the retiring chairman thirty-five years later. That is why, to me, Susim has not passed away, rather he is the ever-youthful leader to all who knew him. He is remembered as one of the top corporate leaders of India who will always occupy an elite spot.
The Hindu
06-07-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
LSGD regularises HLL Life Care's office buildings in Thiruvananthapuram
The Local Self-Government department has decided to regularise building rule violations in the construction of HLL Life Care'soffice buildings in the capital. The government approved the exemptions considering the fact that HLL is a union public sector undertaking which was established to serve the general public. The Chairperson and Managing Director of HLL had earlier submitted an application for exemptions for the office buildings as per the Rule 3 (4) of the Kerala Municipality Building Rules 2019. The violations earlier reported included lack of sufficient car parking or two wheeler parking space, insufficient space behind the building and issues related to reuse and recycling of water. As per the norms, the required setback behind the building should be at least 5 m, but only 3.6 m setback was provided. Considering the area of the building, the parking space need to have space to park 91 cars and 337.83 square metre space for two wheelers. However, there is space to park only 45 cars and 316 square metre area was provided for two-wheeler parking. Conditions apply The Chief Town Planner in his report observed that as per the zoning regulations in the Thiruvananthapuram Master Plan 2040, an area of 100 m on either side of the Poojappura-Thirumala road has been marked as a mixed residential and commercial zone, as per which HLL's constructions are allowed in the area. The government cleared the exemptions subject to certain conditions, including that the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation Secretary ensures that all other KMBR rules are being satisfied in the constructions. A system has to be put in place to ensure recycling and reuse of the waste water from the company.
Time of India
02-07-2025
- Health
- Time of India
Ernakulam govt medical college to open adult immunization clinic
Kochi: Ernakulam govt medical college will open an adult immunisation clinic on Monday. The clinic will provide vaccines against diseases such as chickenpox, typhoid, encephalitis, flu, jaundice and pneumonia to those above 18 years. Vaccines available at the hospital's HLL pharmacy include TD, Tdap, HPV, Varicella, Influenza, Pneumococcal, Hepatitis, Meningococcal, MMR, and Typhoid. Medical superintendent Dr Ganesh Mohan M said the Influenza vaccine would be available at 52% less than the market rate and the Pneumococcal vaccine would be 33% cheaper. These vaccines are especially beneficial for senior citizens and those travelling abroad. The community medicine department will be responsible for running the immunisation clinic, which will operate on all working days from 9am to 1pm.
