Start-ups stand up to be counted amid crisis

Some of the country’s top tech start-ups are carrying out a huge number of drives to assist employees as well as their families adapt to health-related crises, financial problems and for inoculation against Covid-19, in the midst of the second wave of the pandemic.

While Paytm originator Vijay Shekhar Sharma has said the online payments organization will keep on paying salaries to the groups of deceased employees all through the current financial year, food delivery platform Zomato said it would give 100% of the perished worker’s pay for a very long time to the family.

Home and individual service marketplace Urban Company just as ed tech giant Byju’s have set up committed assets to help workers.

“Mohit’s loss has made a void in our organization that can never be filled up,” Abhiraj Singh Bhal, fellow benefactor of Urban Company composed on Twitter, mourning the death of his associate Mohit Agrawal, overseer of designing, because of Covid-19.