New Delhi: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has waived off the toll charges for tankers and containers transporting liquid medical oxygen.
India has a 137,635 km of national highway network. This comes in the backdrop of an acute oxygen availability crisis in the country amid a surge in covid infections, with hospital beds and medicines running out. The situation is alarming with the reported deaths of critically ill covid-19 patients due to low oxygen.
“To provide uninterrupted passage of tankers and containers carrying Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) across national highways, the user fee for such vehicles at Toll Plazas has been exempted.
