CM Kejriwal seeks 700 MT O2 supply to city writes to Goyal

Delhi | Monday | 19th April, 2021

Summary:

New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday, after declaring publicly that Delhi was facing an acute shortage of oxygen and that medical oxygen had become an emergency in the Capital, wrote to Union Minister of Commerce and Industries, Piyush Goyal, flagging the urgent need of uninterrupted oxygen supply. Significantly, in the letter, the CM highlighted that critical oxygen supply had been diverted from Delhi to other states and that the Capitalneeds "uninterrupted supply o 700 MT of oxygen" and that 140 MT oxygen supply to INOX be restored. This disruption is already starting to cause critical shortages across major hospitals," the letter stated. In the letter he wrote, "On the basis of the standard formula prescribed by Govt. of India, a minimum requirement of 700 MT of Oxygen has been projected to your Ministry..