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Covid-19 second wave: India Inc lends a hand amid shortage of oxygen

Over the weekend, many companies stepped in to ease the bottleneck in supply and transportation of oxygen, as demand ran high with the surge in cases

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Ishita Ayan Dutt Kolkata
India Inc is going all out to lend a helping hand as Covid cases continue to surge.
 
JSW Steel is gearing up to ramp up its liquid medical oxygen (LMO) supply to over 900 tonnes a day by month-end while working towards increasing it further.
 
The firm said it was targeting a supply of 20,000 tonnes of LMO in April from its three plants in Maharashtra, Karnataka, and TN.
 
JSW Group Chairman and Managing Director Sajjan Jindal was present during the high-level meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday.
 
Jindal told Business Standard that JSW

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