Haryana railway unit too gets nod for PPE kits

Jaskaran Singh | TNN | Updated: Apr 7, 2020, 01:30 IST

The workshop started manufacturing the PPE kits but were waiting for approval from DRDE and DRDO.

YAMUNANAGAR: The Jagadhri workshop of the Northern Railways got approval to manufacture personnel protection equipment (PPE) kits after three of its samples were found to be compliant with required specifications. Deputy chief personnel officer of the workshop, Rajiv Bajaj said their samples met the ISO 16603:2004 Class 3 or above requirements.
"Up till Sunday, our workshop manufactured around 200 PPEs. It has now started to prepare more for frontline medical and para-medical staff working tirelessly to fight the Covid-19 pandemic," Rajiv said.
He said the Jagadhri workshop prepared three samples of PPE kits for frontline medical staff, which were sent to Defence Research and Development Establishment (DRDE) and Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) through the headquarters of Northern Railways for testing PPEs to be used by doctors in hospitals and Indian Railways.
Bajaj said the workshop started manufacturing the PPE kits but were waiting for approval from DRDE and DRDO.