SC-appointed Task Force recommends special oxygen arrangements in metro cities

Supreme Court-appointed National Task Force has stated that there is an urgent need to ramp up oxygen production by building PSA plants, restricting industrial use of oxygen and with better distribution channels. 

India's oxygen demand was much more than the installed capacity of oxygen production during the second wave of the pandemic, said the report of the Supreme Court-appointed National Task Force. "As of May 25, 2021, the total daily oxygen allocation made to various States/UTs under the allocation/supply plan was a total of 10,250 MTs. This allocation is more than the daily installed production capacity for liquid oxygen in the country," said the report filed by the National Task Force after its audit of oxygen supply and demand in the country during the second wave of the pandemic.