Arjun Deshpande pays tribute to Ratan Tata on his 87th birth anniversary, gives free cancer medicines

Ratan Tata birthday: In a heartful tribute to late Rata on his birth anniversary, Arjun Deshpande, the founder and CEO of Generic Aadhaar, distributed free cancer medicines to patients. Founder Arjun Deshpande shared his views while sharing the special tribute where he recalled his promise of ensuring affordable cancer medicines for all Indians to late Ratan Tata 

Deshpande marked the birth anniversary of Ratan Tata by generously giving cancer drugs to 87 patients, a tribute. Moreover, he also pledged to supply cancer therapies to all patients at its cost price for the entire next year.

"Ratan Tata Sir always believed that cancer medicines shouldn't be a luxury for the rich but accessible to everyone," Deshpande was quoted saying in a report by the Economic Times.

About Generic Aadhaar

Arjun Deshpande embarked on a special journey to reduce the out of pocket health expenditure of Indians at just 16 years and created Generic Aadhaar. This ambitious venture aims to deliver superior generic medicines straight to the doorsteps of customers, cutting out the traditional middlemen marketers and distributors. This innovative strategy has been a game-changer in slashing drug prices, offering discounts that sometimes soar to an astounding 80-90% 

Who was Ratan Tata?

Ratan Naval Tata was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist who served as the chairman of Tata Group and Tata Sons from 1991 to 2012. During these years, he held the position of interim chairman from October 2016 to February 2017. In 2000, he received the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honor in India, followed by the Padma Vibhushan, the country's second highest civilian honor, in 2008.

Tata Group to create 5 lakh manufacturing jobs

Tata Group is planning to create over five lakh new manufacturing jobs over the next five years from its projects, stated Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran in his New Year message to the Group's employees.

"Our Group plans to create 500,000 manufacturing jobs over the next half decade." Chandrasekaran said these jobs will come from Group's investments in factories and projects to produce new age products like batteries, semiconductors, electric vehicles, solar equipment and other critical hardware," N Chandrasekaran said.These will come in part from the aforementioned investments in facilities across India--factories and projects that will produce batteries, semiconductors, electric vehicles, solar equipment, and other critical hardware destined to play a central role in the economy of tomorrow," Tata Sons Chairman added in his letter