Kanpur: Oxygen Express brings 40 metric tonnes of liquid medical oxygen

KANPUR: The second ‘Oxygen Express’ arrived in the city on Tuesday with 40 metric tonnes of liquid medical oxygen from Durgapur, West Bengal.
“Two cryogenic containers carried 20 tonnes each of liquid medical oxygen were brought to the city for Covid treatment,” said deputy chief traffic manager Kanpur Central Himanshu Shekhar Upadhyay. Tight security arrangements were made at Juhi Yard for the arrival of the train.
The Oxygen Express with two loaded containers of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) started its journey to Kanpur after getting loaded from Durgapur on Monday late evening.It reached Kanpur GMC yard on Tuesday morning and was then placed inside the inland container depot (ICD) Kanpur.
“Deputy CTM (Kanpur) Himanshu Upadhyay and assistant divisional mechanical engineer Vikas Kesari were present for monitoring offloading,” chief public relations officer of NCR, Shivam Sharma said in Prayagraj on Tuesday.
Immediately after its placement in the siding, decanting was commenced and by noon, both the containers were decanted, he added.
As decanting got completed, it was handed over to SDM Narvel Amit Kumar who along with tehsildar Ghatampur Gulab Chandra remained present in the siding throughout the decanting process. The entire operation inside the siding was organised by terminal manager, ICD, Amit Yadav, informed the official.
In the first week of May, industry minister Satish Mahana had met party ministers and senior officials in Lucknow requesting operations of oxygen express to mitigate shortage of liquid oxygen in the city.
The city president of Bharatiya Janata party Sunil Bajaj, also present at the Juhi yard said that people are thankful to the CM and the industry minister for their constant support
This was the second Oxygen express to reach the city. Earlier, on April 9, a train carrying 4 tanks of oxygen arrived in the city from Durgapur.