HDFC Standard Life operations not affected by Trade Star Fire

Mumbai, July 31 (UNI) HDFC Standard Life's Corporate office remained unscathed despite a fire that broke out in the Trade Star building in Andheri, North East Mumbai early this morning.

The fire, that affected the seventh and eight floor of the Trade Star building, was controlled before it could effect the other floors.

HDFC Standard Life, which has offices on the first and second floor of the building, remained unaffected.

HDFC Standard Life's MD and CEO Deepak Satwalekar told UNI, ''Our operations remain unaffected by the fire. We had no loss of property or life and our business will continue as usual. We are grateful that this fire has not led to any loss or injury to any employee of any of the corporates working in these premises.'' We would also like to re-assure our customers and business partners that this fire has not affected our functioning and ourservices in any way. We have a contingency management system as well as a disaster recovery plan in place to ensure continuity of services to customers in any such event, he added UNI AR MJ SP DB1822