Express News Service
KHAMMAM: Oxygen may be saving the lives of Covid-19 patients but it is killing the livelihoods of workers in granite industry. The reason: no oxygen is available for the industry which it uses for cutting granite slabs as all life-saving gas is now going to hospitals.
Due to non-availability of oxygen, more than half of the granite industry units have been shut down, throwing thousands of workers out of employment. With no alternative left, they had left for their native places. The industry is also suffering as it is incurring a loss of Rs 2 crore every day.