Mysuru: GAIL India Limited will set up Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) medical oxygen generation plants in Mysuru and Chamarajanagar to boost the supply of oxygen for COVID-19 patients. This is among the 551 PSAs to be set up across the country, as announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

GAIL Limited is an Indian Government agency responsible for natural gas processing and distribution in India headquartered in New Delhi. It is India’s leading natural gas company with diversified interests across the natural gas value chain of trading, transmission, LPG production and transmission. The company, under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, owns and operates a network of around 13,340 km of natural gas pipelines spread across the nation. 

The Centre has instructed GAIL India Limited to establish 10 PSAs which include four in Uttar Pradesh, three in Madhya Pradesh, two in Karnataka and one in Rajasthan. P. Murugeshan, Executive Director, GAIL India Limited, Southern Region, Bengaluru, said they received the instruction on Monday, and work will start quickly as the requirement of oxygen has surged with the rise in COVID cases. 

He said the new facility will probably come up in Government Hospitals at Mysuru and Chamarajanagar, and they are in the process of working out the specification of the plants, their capacity and other aspects.