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Oxygen Inc battles huge odds as India gasps for air
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Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met India’s top oxygen producers and urged them to increase supply and divert tankers meant for other gases to store and ferry oxygen. Till 2019, India’s oxygen requirement was 700 tonnes per day. The first wave of Covid-19 infections pushed that demand up four times.
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India’s oxygen makers as well as steel and gas companies are battling time and logistical constraints to link oxygen-surplus locations to deficit areas.
Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met India’s top oxygen producers and urged them to increase supply and divert tankers meant for other gases to store and ferry oxygen.
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Protesters heckle those in favour of revival at public hearing .
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Supporters and opposers of Sterlite Copper in a heated argument at the public hearing in Thoothukudi collectorate on Friday.
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Protesters heckle those in favour of revival at public hearing . At a hurriedly convened closed-door public hearing in Thoothukudi on April 23, a cross-section of local people opposed any move to allow Vedanta’s sealed Sterlite Copper plant to resume operations to produce oxygen to meet the pressing medical need in many parts of the country following the COVID-19 outbreak.
Those opposing the revival of operations also heckled and chased away some of those who supported Vedanta.
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Protesters heckle those in favour of revival at public hearing .
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Supporters and opposers of Sterlite Copper in a heated argument at the public hearing in Thoothukudi collectorate on Friday.
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Protesters heckle those in favour of revival at public hearing . At a hurriedly convened closed-door public hearing in Thoothukudi on April 23, a cross-section of local people opposed any move to allow Vedanta’s sealed Sterlite Copper plant to resume operations to produce oxygen to meet the pressing medical need in many parts of the country following the COVID-19 outbreak.
Those opposing the revival of operations also heckled and chased away some of those who supported Vedanta.