Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Thursday wrote to Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal and requested for an increase in the oxygen supply quota from current 490 to 976 Metric Tonnes (MT).
Sisodia, who is the nodal minister for the Covid 19 management in Delhi, highlighted that despite quota being increased, oxygen was coming from three plants situated more than 1500 KM and has not reached the city even once in the last 10 days.
Thr ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) released a statement in which it had alleged the promised quota of oxygen was not being supplied. “We received 402 metric tonnes of oxygen yesterday and the day before that, 408 metric tonnes. We have been allocated the share of 480 metric tonnes on April 21st and 490 metric tonnes on April 25th, but it is hardly reaching us in that quantity,” the statement in the letter read.
Sisodia in his letter to Goyal also pointed, “It is clarified that the allocation has been done based on 490 MT of oxygen allocation made to the government of Delhi. However, the actual supply of oxygen to the hospitals shall be subject to the actual delivery of oxygen in Delhi, which is seen to be lower than the allocated quantity.”
