Ludhiana: Alarmed over shortage of empty cylinders with suppliers, distributors and manufacturers of oxygen, the industries department has started making desperate appeals to industrialists and others who have them. The deputy commissioner has also ordered that all the empty and filled oxygen cylinders lying with factories be returned to bottling plants at the earliest.
DC Varinder Kumar Sharma in a video message said, “There is a dire need for empty cylinders. As the district magistrate I order the industry and non-Covid hospitals to immediately return all empty and filled cylinders to the bottling plants from where these were sourced. I have also formed a team of officials to conduct checks in factories, non-Covid hospitals and other establishments. In case cylinders are found, strict action will be taken.”