Bhubaneswar, April 4 -- The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has taken up the challenge on various fronts in an all-out fight against COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak. On the one side, it is ensuring supply of essential commodities like coal for the powerhouses, food grains for the public distribution system, petrol, diesel and other petroleum products for the transportation sector and at the other front it is converting its coaches to serve as quarantine/isolation facilities.
Now the ECoR has come up with a novel idea. Assessing the increased requirement of masks and sanitizers during this outbreak of coronavirus, ECoR has decided to use its workshops, sheds and depots to produce masks and sanitizers, alongside the other works, to assist the Unio...