Updated On: 24 April, 2021 08:46 AM IST | Pune | PTI
Steam and energy are needed to set up an oxygen production plant and these two things are available when sugar mills are operational, the letter stated.

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In light of the current shortage of medical oxygen for COVID-19 patients in Maharashtra, Pune`s Vasantdada Sugar Institute (VSI) on Friday appealed to sugar mills to focus on production of the life-saving gas at their plants.
The VSI`s director general Shivajirao Deshmukh has written to directors of sugar mills in the state.