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New Delhi : Overcoming all hurdles and finding new solutions, Indian Railways is continuing its journey of bringing relief by delivering Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) to various states across the country. So far, it has delivered more than 18,980 MT of LMO in more than 1141 tankers to different States/UTs across the country.
A total of 284 Oxygen Expresses have completed their journey so far bringing relief to various States. Till the time of this release, 4 loaded Oxygen Expresses are on run with more than 392 MT of LMO in 20 tankers.
Oxygen Expresses delivered their highest single day load of 1,195 MT Oxygen relief to the Nation surpassing its previous high of 1,142 delivered on May 23, 2021. Offloading of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) in Delhi crossed 5,000 MT. Amongst the Southern States, delivery of LMO to Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Telangana crossed 1,000 MT each. Oxygen Expresses started their deliveries 33 days back on April 24, 2021, in Maharashtra with a load of 126 MT, according to a PIB release.
Oxygen relief by Oxygen Expresses reached 15 states : Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Telangana, Punjab, Kerala, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Assam.
Till the time of this release, 614 MT of Oxygen has been offloaded in Maharashtra, nearly 3,731 MT in Uttar Pradesh, 656 MT in Madhya Pradesh, 5,077 MT in Delhi, 1,967 MT in Haryana, 98 MT in Rajasthan, 1,653 MT in Karnataka, 320 MT in Uttarakhand, 1,550 MT in Tamil Nadu, 1,190 MT in Andhra Pradesh, 225 MT in Punjab, 380 MT in Kerala, 1,312 MT in Telangana, 38 MT in Jharkhand ,and 160 MT in Assam, according to a PIB release.
Indian Railways has mapped different routes with Oxygen supply locations and keeps itself ready with any emerging need of the States. States provide tankers to the Indian Railways for bringing LMO.
Criss crossing the country, Indian Railways is picking up oxygen from places like Hapa , Baroda, Mundra in the West and Rourkela, Durgapur, Tatanagar, Angul in the East, and then delivering it to States of Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Telangana, Punjab, Kerala, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh & Assam in complex operational route planning scenarios.
In order to ensure that Oxygen relief reaches in the fastest time possible, Railways is creating new standards and unprecedented benchmarks in running of Oxygen Express Freight Trains. The average speed of these critical Freight trains is way above 55 in most cases over long distances. Technical stoppages have been reduced to 1 minute for crew changes over different sections.