Oxygen, something that is always taken for granted, became scarce during the pandemic. To tide over the crisis and ensure that no such issue arises in the future, all the districts in Uttar Pradesh are being made self-sufficient and over 528 oxygen plants are being set up on a mission mode.
As part of its mission to achieve self-sufficiency in the production of medical oxygen in Uttar Pradesh, the Uttar Pradesh government is currently working on war footing to get all plants functional by August 15.
Twenty-five oxygen plants were already functional in the state before the government took the step of constructing more at a rapid pace to ensure the availability of sufficient amounts of medical oxygen in view of any possible future requirement.
Becoming self-reliant in terms of producing the life-saving fluid, as many as 114 of the 528 oxygen plants have already been established and are functional while work on the rest is going on in Uttar Pradesh.
Real-time monitoring of the installation work has been planned, with the district administrations being asked to continuously monitor the progress of installation work of these plants and ensure availability of raw material so that it can be completed on time.
The Government has also approved proposals for setting up 5 new plants in the state. All plants together will transform Uttar Pradesh into an ‘Oxygen Surplus State’ and will end UP’s dependence for oxygen supply on other states or sources.
*No fresh Covid-19 case in 20 districts in Uttar Pradesh in last 24 hours*
Uttar Pradesh recorded 226 fresh Covid-19 cases on Thursday at a positivity rate of 0.08 per cent, the lowest this year so far.
The state is left with just 3,423 active cases while the percentage of active cases as against the total confirmed cases is just 0 per cent.
Leading in terms of conducting maximum COVID tests, Uttar Pradesh has tested as many as 5,65,40,503 samples for the coronavirus infection.
As many as 20 districts did not report even a single fresh case of Covid-19 infection, whereas, 50 districts reported fresh cases in just single digit.
