BHEL plans O2 production at its plants

Efforts are on to create oxygen production capacity in different units of government-owned BHEL (Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd) and so far over five lakh cubic meters of medical oxygen has been provided by its plants to deal with the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic, the heavy industries, and public enterprises ministry said on Monday. It said BHEL's plants located at Bhopal and Haridwar supplied medical oxygen in and around their vicinity. "Further, efforts are underway for creating oxygen production capacity in other units of the company too," the ministry said in a statement. It added that witnessing the acute shortage of medical oxygen in the country during mid-April, the BHEL Haridwar plant created cylinder filling capacity for over 3,000 cylinders per day.