MSRTC driver Suresh Tukaram Jagtap was hailed a hero during last year’s crippling lockdown after he ferried 24 migrant workers to West Bengal covering over 2,300 km. The braveheart is in the thick of things this time transporting oxygen.

Exactly a year ago, the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation asked 54-year-old Jagtap to head for Nadia district in the eastern state bordering Bangladesh. The driver from Satara covered 4,600 km, both ways, becoming the first MSRTC staffer to achieve the feat.