Tamil Nadu lets sterlite to open unit to make oxygen Updated Apr 27, 2021, 12:27 am IST Sterlite had promised to provide the oxygen produced in the plant free of cost to hospitals in Tamil Nadu The Sterlite Copper plant in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu (PTI) Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government decided to allow Sterlite Industries to produce Oxygen at its Copper Smelter plant in Thoothukudi on Monday even as Advocate General Vijay Narayan told the Madras High Court that most of the oxygen manufactured there was of industrial quality and not fit for medical use. Though the nod to open the oxygen manufacturing plant alone was given for four months, on a temporary basis, at an all-party meeting, attended by representatives of ‘recognised political parties,’ leaders of a few other political parties came down heavily on the decision.