DRDO to arrange 500 oxygen crops in three months
Responding to the Centre’s name to all state-owned firms throughout sectors to supply and distribute oxygen, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Wednesday introduced that it’s going to arrange 500 medical oxygen producing crops throughout the nation inside three months below the PM-CARES fund.
According to an announcement issued by the Defence Ministry, the know-how for medical oxygen plant developed by DRDO for on-board oxygen technology for mild fight plane Tejas, has now been transferred to Tata Advanced Systems Limited, Bengaluru, and Trident Pneumatics Pvt Ltd, Coimbatore, for establishing the crops.
These entities will probably be producing 380 of the 500 crops for set up throughout varied hospitals within the nation, the defence ministry assertion mentioned.
The remaining 120 crops will probably be produced by the business in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun, it added.
The oxygen technology crops can produce 1,000 litres of oxygen per minute.
