10 yrs on, BBMB all set to revive its Nangal oxygen plant

Tribune News Service

Nangal, April 30

The Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) is all set to revive its oxygen plant which was shut down 10 years ago at Nangal. Keeping in view the grim situation in the country, Ropar Deputy Commissioner Sonali Giri on April 27 had asked BBMB to explore the possibility to restart its defunct oxygen generation plant.

The plant used to produce 100 cylinders per day when it was shut down in 2010 after oxygen production was found not cost effective. Today, a team of technical experts reached the plant and put it to trial run. The Deputy Commissioner said the plant required minor repair which would be carried out by tonight. From tomorrow it was expected that the plant would start producing at least 50 oxygen cylinders each weighing 43 kg, she said.

Hospitals in the district required one metric tonne of oxygen and the production in this plant would help in fulfilling the requirement at Ropar as well as adjoin districts, she said.

Moga admn takes control of pvt oxygen cylinders

Moga: The District Magistrate of Moga, Harish Nayyar, has enforced Section-3 (1) of the Punjab Requisitioning and Acquisition of Immovable Property Act, 1953, to take control over all oxygen cylinders available in the private hospitals and industrial units in the district. “They will remain in the custody of the district administration till further orders”, a spokesman of the district administration claimed. The DM claimed that the Act had been invoked by him keeping in view of the shortage of medical oxygen in the region. As such, from now onwards, the allocation of oxygen cylinders will be regulated by a magistrate as per the requirement of hospitals in the district. TNS