40 MT of liquid oxygen will be exported by Bhutan to Assam by the oxygen plant set up at Motanga Industrial Estate in Bhutan’s Samdrup Jongkhar district.

Embassy of India at Thimpu confirmed the statement.

In view of the present Covid situation, “Bhutan will supply liquid oxygen to India from a new plant being set up at the Motanga Industrial Estate, Samdrup Jongkhar district by M/s S.D. Cryogenics Gases Pvt. Ltd., a Bhutanese company,” the Embassy of India, Thimpu said in a statement.

The statement added, “Every day, forty metric tonnes of liquid oxygen produced by the Oxygen Plant will be exported to Assam using cryogenic tankers”.

“The oxygen plant has domestic investment of 51% by M/s S.D. Cryogenics and FDI component of 49% by Meghalaya Oxygen Pvt. Ltd., an Assam-based Indian company”, the statement said.

“This is a practical manifestation of the uniquely close and friendly ties between India and Bhutan,” the statement further said.

On April 25(Sunday), the oxygen plant in Bhutan was visited by Assam minister of state for health Pijush Hazarika and Rajya Sabha MP Biswajit Daimary. On direction of Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sharma they reached Samdrup Jhangkhar in Eastern Bhutan.