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India Ramps Up PPE Production Capacity To Over 1 Lakh Per Day, Bengaluru Emerges As Biggest Hub
Swarajya Staff
Apr 27, 2020, 12:10 PM | Updated 12:10 PM IST
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The domestic manufacturing capacity of PPE coveralls has been ramped up to more than a lakh per day with Bengaluru emerging as the major hub for the same, producing more than 50 per cent of the overall output, reports Economic Times.
Besides Bengaluru, PPE coveralls are also being manufactured in approved units at Tirupur, Chennai and Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, in Ahmedabad and Vadodara in Gujarat, Phagwara and Ludhiana in Punjab, Kusumnagar and Bhiwandi in Maharashtra, Dungarpur in Rajasthan,m in Kolkata, Delhi, Noida, Gurugram and a few other such places.
The manufactured PPEs once procured ate then being dispatched to different states on the basis of requirement.
The Union Ministries of Health and Family Welfare, Textiles, and the Department of Pharmaceuticals are working in unison with sundry industry bodies, stakeholders and manufacturers to streamline the supply chain and remove all bottlenecks for enhanced production of PPEs.
The move also comes as a major push to Make in India programme amid the halted economic activity in the nation in the light of the lockdown imposed to contain the spread of COVID-19.
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