Hyderabad: The government of Telangana on Wednesday informed the High Court that the neighboring state of Tamilnadu is obstructing the transport of the liquid oxygen to the state.
The Director of Public Health and Family Welfare, Dr Srinivas Rao, during the hearing of a public intercourse case (PIL), informed the Director of Public Health and Family Welfare, Hima Kohli, and Judge Vijaysen Reddy. The Telangana government has claimed that although the central government has allocated 430 tonnes of liquid oxygen and is available from three neighboring states including Karnataka, Odisha but Tamilnadu acts as an obstacle to the transportation of the oxygen tankers. “The oxygen carts are allowed to enter Tamilnadu for the filling purposes, and therefore there may be an acute shortage of the same,” Srinivas Rao informed the court.
The government of Telangana further informed the court that the Secretary of State demanded 600 metric tons from the central government but only 430 tons were allocated to Telangana despite the increasing demand in the state. According to the allocation by the central government, 55 statistics are to be released by the Tamilnadu government, but the state machinery does not cooperate and does not allow the oxygen carts for transportation.
Source: The Siasat Daily