Oxygen Express Set To Deliver Biggest Single-Day Load To Delhi Tomorrow

Another Oxygen Express, dedicated to ensuring emergency supplies across the country, is set to arrive this evening in Delhi with 30 tonnes.

The biggest single-day delivery of 205 metric tonnes of liquid medical oxygen is expected to be made in Delhi tomorrow morning when an Oxygen Express arrives in the city. Another one of the trains, dedicated to ensuring emergency supplies of the vital gas across the country, is expected to arrive this evening itself with a little over 30 tonnes. The earlier train, which set off from Angul in Odisha at 11 am yesterday to Delhi Cantonment with two tankers carrying 30.86 tonnes of oxygen, has passed Palwal station in Haryana. It is expected to arrive at its destination around 6pm today after completing an almost 30-hour journey, the release said. Some 20 Oxygen Express trains have till now delivered approximately 1,125 tonnes of oxygen in 76 tankers. Seven others are now enroute to Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, and Delhi, carrying 422 tonnes in 27 tankers. Haryana is, in fact, set to receive its fourth and fifth Oxygen Express trains, with nearly 72 tonnes of oxygen from Angul and Rourkela in Odisha.