Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre, IIT Kanpur launched the Mission Bharat O2 in May 2021 to strengthen the Indian healthcare infrastructure, with the objective of promoting indigenous manufacturing at par with global standards. In the initiative, led by Professor Amitabha Bandyopadhyay, Professor In-charge of innovation & incubation, IIT Kanpur, and Srikant Sastri, Director of FIRST-IITK and Chairman, I3G Advisory Network, and Rahul Patel, Head of Strategic Initiatives, startup Acquafront Infrastructure has successfully installed 11 oxygen plants of 450 and 600 LPM capacities in UP, MP, Karnataka, Haryana and Bihar.