New Delhi: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal inaugurated on Friday four oxygen PSA generator plants, commissioned in 3 state government hospitals, in a virtual mode. They were donated and installed by Maruti Suzuki under its CSR initiative, a company press release said.
With the intervention of Maruti Suzuki and its supplier partners JBML, SKH Metals, and Motherson, the production of Oxygen PSA Generator plants by three small-scale units, Airox Nigen, Sam Gases, and Gaskon, was ramped up and now they are able to produce six plants daily.
R C Bhargava, Chairman, MSIL, said, “Maruti Suzuki is supporting these 3 manufacturers to increase their production of PSA plants for oxygen for COVID. Within one month of entering this project, our people have been able to increase the capacity of building Oxygen Generator plants by 10 times. This arrangement will deliver about 70 plants in May and 150 in June and this is more than the total estimated production in India in the financial year 2020-21.”
We thank Maruti Suzuki for their timely intervention and support in installing these four Oxygen PSA Generator plants in Gurugram and look forward to continued support in future.Manohar Lal Khattar, Haryana CM
“The first 24 such plants will be installed by Maruti Suzuki and its suppliers as a CSR initiative within the first half of June 2021. A separate team has been deployed with round the clock monitoring to ensure that these generator plants are installed successfully in hospitals and are operational. The monitoring will continue for a few months to ensure that these generators keep operating satisfactorily well after installation,” the release said.
For the sustainability of these manufacturing operations and to ensure that needy hospitals in the country are made aware of this opportunity, a website, http://oxygengenerator.co.in, has been created to spread this information and channelise enquiries and orders so that manufacturing and deliveries can be planned for the future, the release added.
The chief minister said, “ I appreciate Maruti Suzuki’s approach of helping the small-scale enterprises ramp up their production to meet the requirements of Oxygen PSA generator plants in the country. It is an appropriate solution to all the logistics challenges we faced in arranging medical oxygen. We aspire that every District Hospital in the State is equipped with an Oxygen PSA Generator plant before the onset of the dreaded third wave. We thank Maruti Suzuki for their timely intervention and support in installing these four Oxygen PSA Generator plants in Gurugram and look forward to continued support in future.”