New Delhi: (*80*) Sunday, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Okay Palaniswami wrote to Prime Minister Modi expressing his concern concerning the Oxygen scarcity within the state amid the rising demand within the lively instances. He requested PM Modi to instantly cancel the diversion of 80 MTs of oxygen to Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Tamil Nadu is anticipating an extra surge in has a requirement of 450 metric tonnes of Oxygen which is above the state’s manufacturing capability of 400 MTs.
In the letter to PM Modi he mentioned that 80 metric tonnes of liquid oxygen has been diverted to Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and this must be halted in view of improve in oxygen demand.
“As compared to the maximum case number of around 58,000 during the previous surge in 2020, the active caseload has already increased to over a lakh today. This has increased the oxygen demand…”, the letter learn.
He known as the National Medical Oxygen Allotment a fallacious transfer and that the state has been wrongly allotted lesser quota regardless of excessive quantity of lively instances. “The consumption of oxygen in Tamil Nadu has already reached 310 MTs as against the inadequate allotment made to the state of only 220 MTs,” he mentioned referring to knowledge printed by Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisations.
In the letter he additional continued, “The latest National Medical Oxygen allotment plan allocation for Tamil Nadu has been fixed at 220 MTs and based on the wrong allotment, 80 MTs of liquid oxygen has been diverted from the manufacturing facilities located in Sriperumpudur to Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. This is based on the wrong position that the existing oxygen consumption in Tamil Nadu is lower than the manufacturing capacity”.
“Also the states to which the allotment has been made have lower number of active cases than us also have major steel industries located within the states/close to their states. Hence the diversion from Sriperumpudur plant which supplies to Chennai city with the second biggest caseload in South India seems to have no justification,” he added.
Highlighting that the state hasn’t imposed any such restrictions earlier than he mentioned that such obligatory diversion of liquid oxygen from the state “can lead to major crisis” in Chennai and different districts.
“Hence, I request that diversion of 80 KL (Kilo Litres) from Sriperumbudur plant, in Tamil Nadu may immediately be cancelled,” he wrote.
