Amid Covid surge, Oxygen Express From Jharkhand Reaches Bengaluru

The train was provided a green corridor to ensure that it reaches Karnataka at the earliest.

The first Oxygen Express train to Karnataka, which originated from Tatanagar station in Jharkhand, reached Bengaluru on Tuesday morning. The train carrying 120 tonnes of liquid oxygen arrived in Whitefield on the outskirts of the city. The train was provided a green corridor to ensure that it reaches Karnataka, which is facing a huge demand for oxygen for Covid patients, at the earliest. The train left Tatanagar station, about 1850 km away, around 3.30 am on Monday. Ashok Kumar Verma, Divisional Railway Manager, Bengaluru, told NDTV, "The systems are in place, it depends on the priority we give. Because this was a special importance train, our people were monitoring it minute by minute. That is something we cannot do for every train."