The Supreme court directed to Centre to rectify the shortage of oxygen in Delhi and maintain buffer stock of oxygen for emergency purpose Admin Tue, May 04, 2021, at ,03:27 PM The Supreme court directed the Centre to create a huge stock of oxygen for an emergency in collaboration with states and decentralize the location of the stocks so that it is immediately available if the normal supply chain is disrupted. It asked the Centre to create the emergency stocks of medical grade oxygen within four days. A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud, L Nageswara Rao, and S Ravindra Bhat said the deficit oxygen supply to Delhi must be remedied “forthwith” as “the situation on the ground in Delhi is heart-rending”. The Supreme court bench stated that In the battle of shifting the responsibility of supplying/ off taking of oxygen, the lives of citizens cannot be put in jeopardy, and “the protection of the lives of citizens is paramount in times of a national crisis and the responsibility falls on both the Central Government and the GNCTD to cooperate to ensure that all possible measures are taken to resolve the situation.