By Our Correspondent
ANGUL/JAJPUR/ROURKELA: A total of 1005 tankers/containers carrying 18460.576 MT medical oxygen have been dispatched under escort/supervision of Odisha Police so far from Rourkela, Jajpur, and Dhenkanal and Angul districts of Odisha to 15 Deficit States/UTs in the country. More are leaving on Friday.
During last 29 days, as many as 90 tankers were dispatched from Angul with 1443.742 MT,262 from Dhenkanal with 4219.07 MT, 243 from Jajpur with 4959.497 MT and 410 from Rourkela with 7838.267 MT.
A total of 313 tankers with 6162.424 MT of oxygen have been sent so far to Andhra Pradesh, and 254 tankers with 4332.929 MT of oxygen to Telengana. Tamilnadu has received 61 tankers filled with 1106.677 MT of medical oxygen. Similarly, Haryana has received 138 tankers filled with 2551.723 MT of oxygen. 41 tankers with 660.051 MT of oxygen have been sent so far to Maharashtra, while 583.44 MT of oxygen filled in 36 tankers have been dispatched to Chhattisgarh. As many as 56 tankers have carried around 1107.472 MT of oxygen to Uttar Pradesh and 63 nos of tankers with 1112.76 MT of oxygen have been sent to Madhya Pradesh till date. 22 tankers with 410.24 MT of oxygen have been sent so far to Delhi, 4 tankers with 107.89 MT sent to Punjab, 6 tankers with 120.96 MT sent to Karnataka, 3 tankers with 66.14 MT sent to Bihar, 2 tankers with 25.29 MT sent to Chandigarh, 4 tankers with 73.16 MT sent to Kerala and 2 tankers with 39.42 MT of Oxygen have been sent so far to Rajasthan in last 29 days.
Based on the directive of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, a Special Cell was formed under Y K Jethwa, ADG (L&O) as the Nodal Officer for coordinated action for loading and transportation of medical oxygen by Odisha to States facing deficit. A Dedicated Corridor has been set up with round the clock monitoring. District SsP/DCsP and Range DIG/IG/CP are supervising the movement personally within their jurisdictions.
Odisha Police is committed to ensure that there is no delay in loading and transporting so as to promptly serve thousands of needy patients in UP, MP, Haryana, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telengana, Tamilnadu, Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Bihar, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Kerala Chandigarh and other states. Odisha Police will do our utmost for prompt service to assist other states.
