Sterlite Plant In Tamil Nadu Reopens To Produce Oxygen | Oxygen Crisis | COVID India | CNN News18

Sterlite Plant In Tamil Nadu Reopens To Produce Oxygen | Oxygen Crisis | COVID India | CNN News18

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The shortage of oxygen leads to the reopening of the Sterlite plant in Tamil Nadu that was shut due to protests against its alleged water & air pollution.

Vedanta Ltd owned Sterlite Copper has commenced production of medical oxygen at its facility in Tamil Nadu and the first batch of ‘medical grade oxygen’ was dispatched on Thursday, authorities said. The Sterlite copper smelter plant was given approval by the then AIADMK government on April 26 at an all-party meeting to produce medical oxygen at its facility for a period of four months at the facility in Tuticorin about 600 kms from here.

The unit was sealed by the state government in May 2018, days after 13 agitators who were part of a protest against the company over environmental concerns were killed in police firing during a violent anti-Sterlite stir in the southern district. Recently, Industries Minister Thangam Thennarasu had commented that the production of medical oxygen would commence this week.

“One of our oxygen plants has commenced production from May 12. The first tanker carrying 4.8 tonnes of liquid oxygen is going to Tirunelveli-Tuticorin,” the company said in a statement on Thursday. With the company commencing production of medical oxygen, initially it would dispatch two oxygen tankers on a ‘daily basis’ and later it would be ‘scaled up’ by ramping up production.

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