Jamshedpur: Following the state government’s approval to use oxygen cylinders in industrial activities earlier this week, around 900 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Adityapur are expected to resume production by next week after being shut for nearly two months.
Ever since the second wave of Covid-19 struck Jharkhand in April, the state government had to divert the supply of oxygen cylinders to hospitals from the industries, thereby forcing the latter to stop production.
“Industrial production was stopped abruptly after the supply of oxygen cylinders was stopped to industries and as a consequence, entrepreneurs and workers had to sit idle at home without work for the past two months,” factory owner Mahesh Sonthalia said.