Ensure no oxygen tanker, meant for any state, is stopped: PM Modi asks CMs

Railways and Air Force being deployed to reduce travel time for oxygen tankers, PM Modi told CMs of high burden states

In the wake of coronavirus surge in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked state governments to be strict with hoarding and black marketing of essential medicines and injections. 

He was speaking while chairing a high-level meeting on Covid-19 situation with Chief Ministers of 11 states and Union Territories, which have reported maximum number of Covid cases recently.

Noting that the virus is affecting several states as well as Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities at once, PM Modi called for working together to fight the pandemic with collective power. He said the biggest basis of India’s success during the