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Hospitals in Vidarbha approach MSME-DI, Nagpur to get enough supply of oxygen for them
Nagpur, May 6 (KNN) In a bid to get enough supply of oxygen, hospitals in Vidarbha have approached MSME-DI, Nagpur requesting to set up an oxygen plant under the Cluster Development scheme of the Ministry of MSME.
Reportedly, in this regard a meeting was held on Tuesday with office bearers and members of Vidarbha Hospitals Association (VHA), Nagpur under the Chairmanship of P M Parlewar, Director, MSME-DI, Nagpur to discuss the possibility of setting up of oxygen plant as a CFC under cluster development scheme of MSME.
These hospitals are registered under MSME Act as service enterprises.
As per requirements, the VHA are ready to contribute 10-30 per cent as per requirement and remaining 70 per cent will be provided by the Ministry of MSME as grant -in -aid for CFC which will give relief to such hospitals to some extent.
For this the associations are ready to form a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) as per the scheme.
It was also discussed in the meeting that DPR will be prepared on Fast track basis and a proposal will be submitted to the Ministry immediately for which preparations are under progress.
'This will enable the private hospitals in Nagpur to take services from this CFC which will also act as an 'Oxygen Bank in Nagpur. The land for setting up of this CFC is under identification,' media reports said.
Notably, earlier, MSME-DI, Nagpur during the first wave of pandemic developed PPE kits at the time when it was not available in India and distributed to government hospitals.
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