Supreme Court allows only oxygen to be produced at Sterlite's Tuticorin plant

New Delhi, 27 April 2021 Tuesday

The Supreme Court has allowed the production of oxygen at Vedanta's Sterlite plant. In view of the Corona crisis, the Supreme Court has ordered the production to start. Will produce oxygen and provide oxygen for free. In fact, an application was made to open a Vedanta Sterlite plant in Tamil Nadu, which had been closed for three years.

Senior advocate Harish Salve, on behalf of Vedanta, told the apex court that Vedanta only wants to start an oxygen plant at the Starlight plant. During the hearing on which the Supreme Court said that this is a national disaster. There should be no political conflict between the central and state governments. That said, the Supreme Court has allowed Vedanta to start only an oxygen plant at the Tuticorin copper plant.

A bench of Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice L Nageshwar Rao and Justice Ravindra Bhat heard the case. Justice Chandrachud asked Senior Advocate Salve when you can start the plant. Harish Salve said the oxygen plant will be started in 10 days. There, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta also represented the Central Government before the court.

It is worth mentioning here that the Koro crisis in the country has become horrendous. Health facilities are deteriorating due to increasing number of patients. Hospitals have a severe shortage of oxygen and beds. The state government has also approved the reopening of the Tuticorin-based Sterlite plant, which was shut down by the Tamil Nadu government in May 2018 following violence against it, which killed 13 people.

Supreme Court starts hearing a plea seeking reopening of Vedanta's Sterlite plant in Tamil Nadu for production of oxygen to be used for treatment of COVID patients

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta says produced oxygen should be given to the Center for allocation to various states pic.twitter.com/EIKnuwD43v

- ANI (@ANI) April 27, 2021