Crackdown on units, 200 O2 cylinders lifted in Bahadurgarh town
Tribune News Service
Jhajjar, April 22
A day after prohibiting the supply of oxygen for industrial purposes in view of the surge in Covid cases, a team of the district administration on Thursday cracked down on around 25 industrial units in Bahadurgarh town here and lifted more than 200 cylinders of medical oxygen from there.
The action came after the units failed to provide oxygen cylinders to the administration on their own despite requests for the same. The cylinders would now be used to ensure the smooth supply of oxygen to private and government hospitals in the district as the demand for oxygen had risen considerably in the past few days following the rapid surge in the Covid cases.
Sources said there were more than 50 such industrial units in the district, where oxygen cylinders were used in operations. The administration had prepared a list of such units on getting information about these units from oxygen suppliers and the team would visit remaining factories to lift cylinders from there.
“We have provided 25 cylinders to the administration on humanitarian grounds so that it could meet the rising demand of oxygen. Industrialists stand with the administration in this time of crisis and are ready to give all sorts of help, if needed, to tackle the pandemic,” said Sushil Agarwal, general secretary, Bahadurgarh Industries Association, adding that many others too gave oxygen cylinders to the administration.
