Gujarat: The Reliance Industries Ltd has started supplying oxygen to Maharashtra to battle a savage Covid – 19 outbreaks. Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd, which operates the world’s biggest refining complex in Maharashtra, has started supplying oxygen from Jamnagar in Gujarat to Maharashtra at no cost, according to a company official, who asked not to be identified due to internal policy.

Urban Development Minister Eknath Shinde, in a tweet said that the state will get 100 tons of the gas from Reliance. India is witnessing a second wave of Covid – 19 infections that have caught the Centre and State Governments unprepared, with local media reporting that patients are dying due to a shortage of oxygen and hospital beds. Maharashtra is home to the financial hub of Mumbai where the fresh outbreak is most severe.