Oxygen plants to be set up at hospitals in Dakshina Kannada district: Vedavyas Kamath
Mangaluru, Apr 26: New oxygen plants will be set up at hospitals in the city and other centres in Dakshina Kannada district, Mangaluru city south MLA D Vedavyas Kamath said on Monday.
He was speaking at a meeting of officials, IMA representatives and oxygen suppliers at the deputy commissioners office to discuss thetimely supply of oxygen in hospitals.
Kamath said an oxygen plant with large-scale storage capacity will come up at the government Wenlock hospital here within 45-50 days.
This is in addition to the existing 6 KL liquid oxygen plant at the hospital.
Besides this, Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilisers (MCF) has decided to construct oxygen plants at the ESI hospital here and the Bantwal taluk hospital using their CSR funds, the MLA said.
The Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) has also prepared a blueprint for constructing an oxygen plant at another taluk hospital in the district with their CSR funds, Kamath added.
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Count of voters in Gujarat drops by 73.73 lakh to 4.34 crore post-SIR
Ahmedabad (PTI): The names of nearly 74 lakh voters have been dropped from Gujarat's draft electoral rolls after the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, pegging the total count of electors at 4.34 crore as against the 5.08 crore earlier, an official said on Friday.
The draft electoral rolls were published here by the Election Commission on Friday.
A total of 73.73 lakh voters were omitted from the electoral rolls after the exercise initiated by the EC to clean the rolls, state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Hareet Shukla said.
"Before the publication of the draft electoral rolls, a total of 5,08,43,436 voters were registered in the state. After the publication of these rolls, the number of voters is now 4,34,70,109," he said.
"During the SIR campaign, the names of a total of 73,73,327 voters have been removed from the draft electoral roll," Shukla said.
The names of voters in following categories were deleted in the draft electoral rolls -- deceased voters (18,07,278), absent voters (9,69,662), voters who have permanently migrated (40,25,553), voters registered in two places (3,81,470) and others (1,89,364), a release from CEO office said.
The SIR exercise began in Gujarat on November 4 and ended on December 14.
After the publication of draft rolls, objections and claims regarding them can be submitted to authorities till January 18, the EC earlier said.
