facilitate 100 oxygen concentratorswhile the unavailability of oxygen cylinders is a concern members of the federation of kutch industries association fokia have placed orders for some 100 oxygen concentratorswe have made a payment of rs 40 lakh and are expecting delivery on april 27 we plan to collaborate with local ngos here who have been working with us from time to time and will send the oxygen concentrators to them on a rotational basis said nimish phadke md fokiathe industry association plans to supply oxygen to covidaffected people in the industrial belts of kutch bhuj nakhatrana bhachau and gandhidham too it also supplied ventilators to hospitals as wellgcci to aid logistics for oxygen cylinders in ahmedabadgujarat chamber of commerce and industry gcci has set up a special task force to provide logistics support for oxygen cylinders in ahmedabad similar initiatives are being undertaken by other regional chambers of commerce and industry in other parts of the state toowe have procured cylinders which we will get filled from various oxygen suppliers and sent to private hospitals in ahmedabad and surrounding areas which do not have their own tanks said natubhai patel president gccito start with we have provided some 200 cylinders to the ahmedabad collector and we are looking at filling at least 200 cylinders in a single day we will also collect the cylinders back from the private hospitals and get them refilled and supplied again patel addedjewellers traders tour operators appeal for shutdownsin ahmedabad several trade associations and those of tour operators and jewellers have appealed for shutdowns of different durations for instance travel agents federation of india tafi gujarat chapter appealed to its members to shut offices till april 30 in a bid to help break the chainat least 80 members of tafi in ahmedabad and some 120 more in other parts of gujarat have decided to keep offices shut the business did take a hit but the safety of employees comes first and this time we are better equipped to let our colleagues work from home said manish sharma chairman tafi gujaratmeanwhile jewellers association of ahmedabad jaa in addition to other manek chowk jewellers association and ratanpole gold silver jewellery merchants association recently appealed to their members to keep markets shut till april 30 after observing a selflockdown over the weekend we decided to keep markets shut in the interest of the safety of employees and customers said jigar soni president jaa