Oxygen Expresses deliver over 32,000 MT of LMO across India

444 Oxygen Express have completed their journey that brings relief to 15 states. Over 17,700 MT of liquid oxygen has been delivered across the southern states of the country. Railways have delivered 32,095 MT of LMO in 1,834 tankers across the country, the ministry said.

Oxygen Expresses have delivered over 3200, 4000, 4200, and 5600 MT of LMO in the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu respectively.

Meanwhile, three loaded Oxygen Expresses were on run with over 258 MT of LMO in 14 tankers.

It is to mention that Oxygen Expresses started their deliveries 55 days back on April 24, in Maharashtra with a load of 126 MT.

Oxygen relief by Oxygen Expresses reached 15 states namely Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Telangana, Punjab, Kerala, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Assam.

As per the data issued on Friday, 614 MT of Oxygen has been offloaded in Maharashtra, nearly 3,797 MT in Uttar Pradesh, 656 MT in Madhya Pradesh, 5,722 MT in Delhi, 2,354 MT in Haryana, 98 MT in Rajasthan, 4,227 MT in Karnataka, 320 MT in Uttarakhand, 5,674 MT in Tamil Nadu, 4,037 MT in Andhra Pradesh, 225 MT in Punjab, 513 MT in Kerala, 3,255 MT in Telangana, 38 MT in Jharkhand and 560 MT in Assam.

Till now Oxygen Expresses offloaded LMO in around 39 cities/towns in 15 states across the country, said the Ministry. Railways are picking up oxygen from places like Hapa, Baroda, Mundra in the West and Rourkela, Durgapur, Tatanagar, Angul in the East.

(ANI)