Oxygen initiative

Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre, IIT Kanpur launched the Mission Bharat O2 in May 2021 to strengthen the Indian healthcare infrastructure, with an overarching objective of promoting indigenous manufacturing at par with global standards. In the initiative, led by Prof. Amitabha Bandyopadhyay, professor in-charge, Innovation & Incubation, IIT Kanpur, Srikant Sastri, Director, FIRST-IITK and Chairman, I3G Advisory Network, and Rahul Patel, Head of Strategic Initiatives, startup Acquafront Infrastructure has successfully installed 10 oxygen plants of 500 and 600 LPM capacities in UP, MP, Karnataka, Haryana and Bihar.

Mission Bharat O2 is one more step towards the larger vision of SIIC to develop a selfsustainable healthcare ecosystem in India. The SIIC team has acted swiftly in the past, during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, to deliver an invasive ICU ventilator in just 90 days with Noccarc and the most popular Made-in-india N-95 grade Swasa mask with E-spin Nanotech and Indeema Fibre. In the 2nd wave of COVID-19 pandemic, AIPL, designed and manufactured the PSA technologybased oxygen plants. It was ably supported by 2 SMES, based in Kolkata and Hallol, as manufacturing partners of the Mission Bharat O2. The SIIC team has acted swiftly in the past, during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, to deliver an invasive ICU ventilator in just 90 days with Noccarc. In the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic, AIPL, designed and manufactured the PSA technology-based oxygen plants, ably supported by two SMES, based in Kolkata and Hallol.