Chalet Hotels Limited

Chalet Hotels Limited, at the forefront of responsible corporate practices, worked through the lockdown to engage and contribute to the society at large.

Among their major initiatives:

•  Distribution of meal packets by the group hotels to personnel on duty from various agencies involved in the fight against COVID—police, traffic police, hospital staff and municipal workers.
• Donation of around 1500 PPEs to local police stations and municipalities for use by their personnel on the frontline.
• Making available a large inventory of hotel rooms in Mumbai for accommodating doctors, nurses and medical support staff fighting against COVID-19 at very nominal rates.
• Supplying complimentary food packets and donating PPE kits to the COVID-19 government taskforce across the entire lockdown period; providing groceries and essentials to old-age homes as well as meal boxes to an orphanage.
• Providing soaps, biscuits, sanitisers and masks to migrant labourers housed at the CIDCO exhibition centre in Navi Mumbai. The staff of their various hotels’ handmade reusable cloth masks for the needy.
• Chalet Hotels also put in their energies to help their staff, particularly those on the frontline: Picking them up from their homes and dropping them back to offering them inhouse accommodation to avoid infection.
• The group’s senior management held virtual town halls, training programmes and engagement initiatives for their hotel associates, besides reaching out to corporate office employees with guidance and counselling on health and COVID-related issues.

Frontlines Heroes

Priyanka Pedalu, Front Office Associate, Renaissance Mumbai Convention Center & Marriott Executive Apartments

Priyanka Pedalu, who has been a part of the Marriott family since September 2018, reached out to the Mumbai police vehicle stationed at her society and requested the cops to allow her to volunteer to spread awareness and assist in any way she could as COVID-19 cases begin to spread in Mumbai. She worked with the police for almost half-a-month in April 2020, till the time duty called and she had to get back to work. Pedalu continues to excel as she handles the operation of telephones for the entire hotel single-handedly since her colleagues are unable to get back to work.

Jaywant Rane, Housekeeping Associate, Renaissance Mumbai Convention Center & Marriott Executive Apartments

Jaywant Rane went out of his way to provide for the underprivileged. Rane, moved by the sight of so many daily wage earners struggling to find their next meal, began cooking for approximately 2,000 people on an everyday basis, helped by his family and friends. The food was distributed to the migrant workers in Bhandup, Kanjur and Vikhroli. He set an example for his peers with his selfless service.