YOGI’S DREAM OF BEAUTIFUL UTTAR PRADESH IS TAKING SHAPE

ne can well imagine the kind of satisfaction experienced by a person who gets relief from a hot sun in the shade of the tree he himself had planted earlier. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath experienced a similar satisfaction when on October 8 he performed virtual inauguration of the State’s biggest oxygen plant at Ghaziabad meant to provide oxygen to Corona-hit patients. Set up at Modinagar in Ghaziabad, this highly advanced ultra-high-purity cryogenic oxygen plant has a capacity to produce 150 metric tonnes of liquid medical oxygen per day. According to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the MoU for setting up this ultrahigh-purity cryogenic oxygen plant was signed with lnox Air Products in February 2018 during the Investment Summit. In the last three years, the State Government has been able to build up an investment-friendly climate which is attracting investors in large numbers to the State and UP has reached second position in the country in "Ease of Doing Business". With the commissioning of this plant, UP’s present oxygen production capacity has gone up to 265 metric tonnes per day from the earlier 115 metric tonnes a day. With the outbreak and spread of the COVI D-19 pandemic, the States requirement of liquid medical oxygen had shot up to