Bokaro: As Covid-19 cases have reduced considerably throughout the country and the demand for oxygen has gone down, the Bokaro Steel Limited (BSL) has curtailed its supply of liquid medical oxygen to 11 states.
BSL’s chief of communication Manikant Dhan said, “BSL had supplied 7,375 MT of liquid medical oxygen to 11 states when the second wave of the pandemic was at its peak in May. But now the demand has gone down and last month, BSL had to supply only 601MT of oxygen to three states Bihar (105 MT), Uttar Pradesh (210 MT) and Madhya Pradesh (80 MT).”
Upon directives of the Union ministry of steel, all the five units of Steel Authority of India Limited had diverted their liquid oxygen for medical use. BSL had to supply oxygen to Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Assam, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
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Ranchi: Govind Kumar is a resident of Bagodar block in Giridih district. For nearly five years now, Govind has been working at a coffee shop in Mumbai’s Worli to sustain his family back home. Govind earns nearly Rs 30,000 a month, of which he can send a little back home. On Thursday, Govind doled out a chunk of his salary to purchase air tickets to the state. With Maharashtra announcing night curfews and lockdowns during the weekends in a desperate effort to tame the spiralling Covid-19 infection rate, Govind’s employers have downed the shutters indefinitely.
“Night curfews are in place till April 30, so my employer asked me to go home. He said he will summon me once situations ease out,” Govind said outside Ranchi’s Birsa Munda International Airport upon arrival.
Local curbs, fear of lockdown spur another exodus of migrant workers
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The second wave of Covid infections is sparking another migration of workers returning to their home states from places reporting sharp increases in cases. This threatens to reverse the gains from around Diwali last year when workers who had left in the first exodus had started to return to the states where they had worked. Each day, hundreds of migrants are returning to Ranchi.
Jharkhand is one such state to which people have started to return after several big cities imposed curbs, night curfews and lockdowns to tackle the second wave of Covid.
Jharkhand is one such state to which people have started to return after several big cities imposed curbs, night curfews and lockdowns to tackle the second wave of Covid.
RANCHI/BERHAMPUR/BENGALURU: The second wave of Covid infections is sparking another reverse migration of workers returning to their home states from places reporting sharp increases in cases.
This threatens to reverse the gains from around Diwali last year when workers who had left in the first exodus had started to return to the states where they had worked. Jharkhand is one such state to which people have started to return after several big cities imposed curbs, night curfews and lockdowns to tackle the second wave of Covid.
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