LMO supply: Indian Railways says it delivered 70 MT to Delhi, 78 MT to Haryana

Mukesh Ranjan
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 1

Minister for Railways Piyush Goyal said on Saturday that the second Oxygen Express with 120 MT of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) in 6 tankers will reach Delhi from Durgapur in next 24 hours. The first such train arrived in Delhi from Chhattisgarh carrying 70 MT LMO.

“Oxygen tanks are being loaded from Durgapur, West Bengal on Oxygen Express to provide LMO for patients in Delhi,” Goyal said in a tweet, while adding that this will be the first such train, which will carry the oxygen in containers provided by Singapore. These tankers were received at the container corporation terminal near Durgapur, he noted.

The containers were directly loaded on flat wagons of the Oxygen Express and departed at around 12:45 pm for Delhi, Railway officials said, adding that it will take the train around 18 hours to reach the national capital.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Railways also said that Haryana has already received its first and second Oxygen Express trains today carrying 79 MT of LMO in 5 tankers. The third Oxygen Express carrying 30.6 MT LMO in 2 tankers has already started from Angul and currently on its way to Haryana.

The Haryana government had earlier sent empty tankers on cargo flight from Hindon to Bhubaneshwar, and loaded tankers from Angul were dispatched to Faridabad by rail.

Later in a statement the Indian Railways said, “Accelerating its pace of delivering LMO to various states across the country, it has delivered 813 MT of the gas in 56 tankers to various states across the country.” Of these Maharashtra received 174 MT, Uttar Pradesh (355 MT), Madhya Pradesh (134.77 MT), Delhi (70 MT) and Haryana (79 MT).

Fourteen Oxygen Expresses have already completed their journey and 5 more loaded Oxygen Express are on the run carrying 342 MT of LMO in 18 tankers. It is Indian Railways endeavour to deliver as much LMO as possible in the shortest time possible to the requesting states, it noted.