Chandigarh, June 18 -- With 128 Punjab manufacturers approved for production of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE), Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking permission to export the surplus.

The Chief Minister said these manufacturers had risen to the occasion in the wake of the Covid outbreak to make Punjab self-reliant in the manufacture of this critical equipment needed by frontline warriors in the fight against the pandemic.

Permitting them to export the PPE body coveralls "would also give an impetus to the Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan recently launched by Government of India under your leadership," he said in his letter to the Prime Minister, requesting him to consider giving permissio...