To commemorate International Women’s Day, Apollo Tyres recently launched a rubber sheet making unit to be run solely by rubber tapper’s wives at Vellavoor Panchayat in Kottayam district. S Jayasooryan, Vice-Chairman, Rubber Board, inaugurated the unit. The women have been…
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