Vadodara/ Anand: The Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers Union Limited popularly known as Amul Dairy will set up oxygen plants in Nadiad and Balasinor districts in addition to Anand.
The dairy co-operative has set up an oxygen plant at Shree Krishna Hospital (SKH) at Karamsad in Anand. The plant with a capacity of producing 20,000 litres per hour of oxygen and can serve 60 patients in a day was inaugurated by chairman Ramsinh Parmar.
SKH has been treating more than 500 Covid-19 patients and daily new 40-45 patients come for treatment at the hospital. It has tied up with Linde Company to fulfil the need for medical liquid oxygen. It has a facility of 6,000-litre oxygen tank to cope up with daily demand for oxygen and a 1,000 litre three small tanks to deal with the crisis.
Move follows Banas Dairy setting up plant for Covid-19 patients at medical college After Banas Dairy’s successful execution of oxygen plant for Covid-19 patients at its medical college in Palanpur, the Gujarat government has now directed all dairy unions in the State to come forward and setup oxygen facilities in their respective districts.
In a circular issued on Wednesday, Gujarat’s Registrar of Cooperatives has directed all the district cooperative milk unions across the State to immediately set up oxygen plants in their respective regions.
Shamalbhai Patel, Chairman of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), told
BusinessLine that all the dairy unions are positive about the initiative and have shown their readiness to fund the project.
A 21-year-old Dalit man was allegedly beaten to death by a group of men belonging to the upper caste Patel community for attending a garba event in Gujarat s Anand district in the early hours on Sunday, police said. The incident took place around 4 am.
BKU leader Rakesh Tikait in Bardoli town on Monday
Ahmedabad/Vadodara/Surat: Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Monday threatened to start a farmers’ tractor agitation in Gujarat after Delhi, and said time has come to gherao Gandhinagar and also break barricades if needed.
“Farmers will conduct agitation in Gujarat using their tractors. Time has come to gherao Gandhinagar and block roads. If needed, we will have to break barricades too,” Tikait said after his visit to Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad on Monday. He was accompanied by former Gujarat chief minister Shankersinh Vaghela.
Tikait claimed farmers in Gujarat were unhappy and suffering. “Farmers are suffering because there is no agitation here. There is no backing from courts also. Farmers are compelled to say they are happy and making a profit. Please give us that technology which is helping Gujarat’s farmers to reap benefits,” he said.
Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Monday threatened to start a farmers tractor agitation in Gujarat after Delhi, and said time has come to gherao the state capital Gandhinagar and also break barricades if needed. Talking to reporters outside the Sabarmati Ashram here, Tikait claimed farmers in Gujarat were unhappy and suffering. Hundreds of farmers have been camping at Delhi s borders since November last year against the Centre s three agriculture reform laws. They are demanding a repeal of the three laws along with a legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price (MSP) for their produce. The protesting farmers took out a tractor rally in Delhi on January 26.