By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR/CUTTACK: Living to the expectations of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, DGP Abhay and his able ADGP (Law-Order) YK Jethwa once again proved their professional skills and crisis management calibre with as many as 90 tankers/containers carrying 1675.781 MT medical oxygen have been escorted so far from Rourkela, Jajpur, Dhenkanal and Angul districts of Odisha by Odisha Police to different COVID-19 Hospitals across India. More are leaving on Tuesday.
30 tankers with 644.72 MT of oxygen were sent to Andhra Pradesh, 19 tankers with 324.079 MT of oxygen were sent to Telengana. Tamilnadu received 01 tanker filled with 15.98 MT of medical oxygen. Haryana received 08 tankers filled with 187.512 MT of oxygen. 06 tankers with 112.06 MT of oxygen were sent to Maharashtra, while 61.44 MT of oxygen filled in 4 tankers have left for Chhattisgarh. 07 tankers have carried around 114.17 MT of oxygen to Uttar Pradesh in last 05 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, Tamil Nadu and other needy states.We will do our utmost for prompt service to assist the needy states.
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