India produced over 60 million personal protective equipment (PPE) and 150 million N95 masks in just seven months, said Union Textiles Minister Smriti Ir while addressing a programme on Aatmrbhar Bharat via videoconferencing on Friday.
"India produced over 60 million PPE and 150 million N95 masks from March to October. We have exported over 20 million PPE suits and 40 million masks so far," she said.
Ir added till March, India didn't have any company producing the PPE suits, and today we have more than 11,000 compes making the protective gears. "Similarly, from the two compes making the N95 masks in March, today we have over 200."
( With inputs from ANI )
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