Agarwal Gets Nod to Reopen Oxygen Mill on India Demand Surge
- Tamil Nadu allows Vedanta to resume oxygen mill operations
- Vedanta copper complex in Tamil Nadu has been shut since 2018
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Vedanta Ltd. received approval to temporarily start producing oxygen at its shuttered copper smelter in southern India as a shortage of medical-grade oxygen is making the pandemic’s second wave more lethal in the country.
The Tamil Nadu state government has allowed the restart of the 1,000 tons a day oxygen mill at billionaire Anil Agarwal’s controversial copper factory for a period of four months, it said in a statement. However, Vedanta should not produce or start operations of the copper unit, it said.