MSME centres join hands to make anti-Covid gear

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, April 5

Adopting “all hands on the deck” approach, the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises have engaged 18 operational technology centres to produce different gear and equipment required in the fight against Covid-19.

The Central Footwear Training Institute, Chennai, have installed hot sealing machine for job work of sealing masks and medical gowns enabling a health care material provider an approved supplier while the MSME Technology Centre, Hyderabad, is developing a prototype of an electro-mechanical ventilator based on sensors which will be ready soon, an official release said on Sunday.

Central Tool Room and Training Centre, Kolkata, is developing a simple and low-cost ventilator system in consultation with Sagar Datta Super Speciality Hospital, which have agreed to test it.

MSME Technology Centre, Kannauj, started manufacturing alcohol-based sanitisers and have supplied to Farrukhabad Administration, Railways and other organisations.

Institute for Design of Electrical Measuring Instruments is developing an ion-based sanitiser, which if successful, will have multiple applications.

MSME Technology Centre, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar and Jamshedpur will manufacture components for 650 corona testing kits.