Tripura MLA demands blacklisting of firms that supplied

Ruling BJP MLA in Tripura and former state health minister Sudip Roy Barman has demanded blacklisting of companies that had allegedly supplied "substandard" PPE kits and hand sanitiser to the state government.

Roy Burman, in a letter to Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Saturday, said, "Out of different categories of PPE kits totaling 9,000 as received by the State, only 914 PPE kits supplied by HIL were found to be appropriate & the rest were found to be permeable to liquid & such permeability is hazardous in COVID-19 treatment intervention."