Tripura deputy chief minister Jishnu Dev Verma wrote to Tata Trusts chairman Ratan Tata on Monday, requesting materials to combat Covid-19.

A second flight carrying relief cargo for the state also landed at Agartala on Sunday.

Dev Verma requested Tata Trusts for 100 ventilators, 50,000 personal protection equipment, alcohol-based sanitisers, N95 masks and 500 makeshift tents for attending patients, among others.

Tata Trusts adviser for the Northeast Ranjit Barthakur informed Dev Verma that the Tata Group has constituted a special team to activate the special requirements for the country. “Your requests are being processed to the best of the availability of the PPE/other requirements and have been incorporated into the request pool,” he replied.

“We are hoping to communicate with you shortly on the quantities you may receive but you will appreciate that in collating and actioning these requirements, it may take a few days more, as there is a global shortage of all these goods, especially inflow into India,” Barthakur wrote.

S. Haokip Jempu, the airport terminal manager of Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport here, on Monday said the cargo flight came from Delhi via Calcutta. The flight, operated by Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India, carried 309 cartons weighing 2,344kg. Out of these, Tripura share of 57 cartons, weighing 593kg, of essential items was offloaded at the airport here. The flight took off for Guwahati and Dibrugarh at 10pm with the remaining relief items.