Oxygen Update: Oxygen Expresses delivered nearly 28,000 MT of medical Oxygen to the nation
Oxygen Expresses, run by Indian railways have transported more 1,628 tankers of liqued medical Oxygen (LMO) so far and bring relief to 15 states
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. Oxygen Expresses have crossed the mark of 28,000 MT of LMO
delivery in service to the Nation. So far, Indian Railways has delivered
nearly 28060 MT of LMO in more than 1628 tankers to various states
across the country.
It may be noted that 397 Oxygen Expresses
have completed their journey so far and brought relief to various States
and 5 loaded Oxygen Expresses on run with more than 494 MT of LMO in 24
tankers.
More than 3900 MT Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) has
been offloaded in Tamil Nadu by Oxygen Expresses. Oxygen Expresses
offloaded more than 3100 and 3400 MT of Liquid Medical Oxygen(LMO) in
the state of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka respectivelOxygen relief by
Oxygen Expresses reached out to 15 states namely 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 3797 MT in Uttar Pradesh, 656 MT in
Madhya Pradesh, 5722 MT in Delhi, 2354 MT in Haryana, 98 MT in
Rajasthan, 3450 MT in Karnataka, 320 MT in Uttarakhand, 3972 MT in Tamil
Nadu, 3130 MT in Andhra Pradesh, 225 MT in Punjab, 513 MT in Kerala,
2765 MT in Telangana, 38 MT in Jharkhand and 400 MT in Assam.
Till
now Oxygen Expresses offloaded LMO in around 39 cities/towns in 15
states across the country namely Lucknow, Varanasi, Kanpur, Bareilly,
Gorakhpur & Agra in Uttar Pradesh, Sagar, Jabalpur, Katni &
Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, Nagpur, Nashik, Pune, Mumbai & Solapur in
Maharashtra, Hyderabad in Telangana, Faridabad & Gurugram in
Haryana, Tuglakabad, Delhi Cantt & Okhla in Delhi, Kota &
Kanakpara in Rajasthan, Bengaluru in Karnataka, Dehradun in Uttarakhand,
Nellore, Guntur, Tadipatri & Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh,
Ernakulam in Kerala, Tiruvallur, Chennai, Tuticorin, Coimbatore &
Madurai in Tamil Nadu, Bhatinda & Phillaur in Punjab, Kamrup in
Assam and Ranchi in Jharkhand.
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. Running on high priority
Green Corridor, with a highest sense of urgency, operational teams of
various zones are working round the clock in most challenging
circumstances to ensure that Oxygen reaches in fastest possible time
frame. Technical stoppages have been reduced to 1 minute for crew
changes over different sections.
Tracks are kept open and high
alertness is maintained to ensure that Oxygen Express keeps zipping
through. All this is done in a manner that speed of other Freight
Operations doesn't get reduced as well.
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