Naresh and Anish Mathew reside in the Arakkonam Kurinjinagar residential area of ​​Ranipettai district. Among them, Anish Mathew is working as an engineer in Bangalore. The two have been earning praise for their invention of low-cost oxygen concentrators which has been provided it to the District Collector to meet the oxygen requirement.

The demand for oxygen in hospitals across the state has been increasing every day. Considering the difficulty faced by the patients, Anish Mathew decided to invent an oxygen concentrator with low cost domestic products to reduce the high cost of importing oxygen-producing machines from abroad.

They have developed a machine capable of separating 21 per cent of the oxygen in the air using a chemical called zeolite and compressing it with a compressor. This machine is said cost ₹40,000.

Anish and Naresh met District Collector Gladson Pushparaj in person and explained the operation of the machine, asking for permission to test their machine and make it available for public use to meet the oxygen needs of lesser patients, which costs ₹1 to 2 lakh.

Following this, the District Collector assured that appropriate action would be taken to bring it to the use of the people and appreciated the initiative of the youth.

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The Delhi Police are on the lookout for businessman Navneet Kalra who owns Khan Chacha and Town Hall restaurants.

A lookout circular notice has been issued for Kalra, after 524 oxygen concentrators were recovered from his restaurants in the national capital. Kalra had imported the oxygen concentrators through a private company from China.

Fearing imminent arrest, Kalra has also filed an anticipatory bail plea at the Saket court in this hoarding case which can be viewed as war profiteering as India faces an uphill struggle to counter the Wuhan virus.

A large number of oxygen concentrators were recovered through raids by the Delhi Police and 419 of the 524 concentrators were seized from a restaurant-cum-bar in the posh Lodhi Colony area whereas 96 and nine of them were recovered from Khan Chacha and Town Hall respectively.

After the raid, Kalra may have fled Delhi along with his family members and his mobile phone has been switched off.

The police have also carried out raids at neighbouring states and also his Chattarpur farmhouse.

“10 to 12 teams of Delhi Police had arrived (at farmhouse), Sahab (Navneet Kalra) had left the farmhouse late night along with his family in his car, without the driver. Delhi Police went inside and searched the farmhouse as a part of the raid,” one of the guards from the farmhouse told India Today.

The police also recovered an audio clip in which Kalra could be heard discussing the allotment of oxygen concentrators to specific ‘friends’ in the Khan Market area.

There is a massive demand for oxygen concentrators due to Covid and Kalra was allegedly was selling them for exuberant amounts.

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Various nations have been helping India by supplying oxygen, medical equipment, aid etc with the surging number of  Covid-19 cases in the country. The New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT) on Monday, May 10, handled one more navy vessel ‘INS Kolkata’ which was carrying two 20 MT oxygen-filled in ISO tanks, two hundred oxygen cylinders packed in ten pallets of 10 MT and four 10 litres high flow oxygen concentrators from Kuwait.

The cargo was loaded on to the navy vessel at Shuwaikh Port in Kuwait, from where the vessel sailed out on May 5. INS Kolkata is one among the nine vessels under the Samudra Setu-II operation launched by the Indian Navy. The vessel was given the highest priority berthing in the port which arrived at 2 pm Monday. The oxygen and the medical equipment were donated by the Government of Kuwait to the Indian Red Cross Society in support of the nation’s healthcare and to overcome the current pandemic situation in the country.

INS Kolkata is the second vessel carrying medical aid to reach NMPT under the operation launched by the Indian Navy. Chairman, NMPT, Dr. AV Ramana, along with Dakshina Kannada deputy commissioner, Dr. KV Rajendra, MLA Dr. Bharath Shetty, MLA Umanath Kotian and senior officers of the Port, navy and coast guard were present at the operation site to monitor smooth disembarking of the cargo off the vessel.

The chairman expressed the readiness of the port in such situations and every possible help towards the country’s fight against the pandemic. The liquid medical oxygen containers will be transported to the destinations decided by the state government. The port extended all its resources for berthing of the above vessel and handling of the medical oxygen and the oxygen concentrators free of cost as per the directives of the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways.

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As the requirement for oxygen has increased in the last two weeks, the Indian Institute of Technology – Kanpur has decided to produce around 30000 oxygen concentrators by June.

#IITKanpur decides to produce around 30000 oxygen concentrators by June. It has invited industries to come along and assured all kind of help to achieve this goal: Shrikant Shastri, Professor IIT Kanpur pic.twitter.com/7k8yN2jOSI

— All India Radio News (@airnewsalerts) May 5, 2021

This information was revealed by Shrikant Shastri, Professor IIT Kanpur. The manufacturing challenge task force will be led by Amitabha Bandyopadhyay, Professor in charge, Innovation & Incubation, IIT Kanpur, Srikant Sastri, President, TiE Delhi-NCR and Rahul Patel, Head of Strategic Initiatives, SIIC, IIT Kanpur.

IIT Kanpur director Prof Abhay Karandikar said, “IIT Kanpur carries a legacy of serving the nation in times of urgent need. When the first wave of COVID-19 hit India, SIIC incubated companies stepped up and delivered. As the second wave hits India, IIT Kanpur and SIIC have decided to support more indigenous innovators, this time to address the oxygen crisis in the country. I urge all eligible entrepreneurs to participate in Mission Bharat O2.”

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