chennai explaining the rationale behind imposing total lockdown in the state for a week starting from monday tamil nadu chief minister m k stalin said on saturday that all those working in the health sector were facing major psychological stress doctors nurses and other frontline health workers have faced immeasurable hardships many doctors have died others are working without bothering about their lives they cannot be burdened with more pressure he saidhe was addressing the first meeting of the committee of mlas from various parties at the secretariat soon after a session with the medical experts he said school and college students were among those facing major crisis owing to covid19 for them holidays are joyful but now it has turned into a misery they can undergo depression how long can schools and colleges be shut education for children should resume at the earliest he saidthe state is yet to bring the pandemic under control but people are roaming freely on streets as if life has returned to normal he saidefforts taken by the government to resolve the oxygen shortage has yielded positive results the government is able to provide adequate quantity of oxygen to all hospitals he said inox air products has planned a liquid oxygen production unit in hosur while sicgilsol india private limited has proposed to expand its oxygen production unit in ranipet by investing 100 crorethe centre has increased the allotment of oxygen to 519 tonnes from 480t following the state governments request the state has been getting100t of liquid oxygen a day from odisha the state government also held talks with maharashtra to bring 900t of oxygen and it is under the consideration of that governmentefforts were bring taken to produce more oxygen in tamil nadu by setting up new joint ventures involving tidco and private entities the industries department had arranged import of lifesaving equipment worth 40 crore including oxygen concentrators cylinders regulators flow meters and cryogenic iso tankers arrangements were made to procure 2150 cylinders from singapore through sipcot and another 1000 cylinders through the cii besides 800 from dubai 975 from south korea and 380 from malaysia he said there is a plan to procure 2675 oxygen concentrators at 22 crore by gcc orders have been placed to purchase 5000 concentrators at 20 crore from singapore and 185 from lebanon the cm said