BHEL creates capacity to fill 3,000 oxygen cylinders per day at Haridwar facility

State-run engineering firm BHEL on Monday said it has created oxygen cylinder filling capacity of 3,000 units per day at its Haridwar facility among other initiatives to fight COVID-19. The second wave of the pandemic has rapidly developed into an unprecedented crisis for the nation, and in the midst of this grave national crisis, BHEL has been working on war footing to do its bit for the country and fellow citizens, a company statement said.

BHEL’s plants, located at Bhopal and Haridwar, have responded to the situation with all possible resources at their command for supplying medical oxygen in and around their vicinity, it added. BHEL Haridwar was having a capacity to produce 24,000 CuM oxygen per day for captive use through internal pipelines.