NEW DELHI, Sep 15:
Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation has rushed three lakh litres of water and four units of reverse osmosis drinking water treatment plants for the flood-affected people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Providing details of his ministry’s contribution to the flood-hit Kashmir, Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation Nitin Gadkari said that four lakh litres more of drinking water is being sent along with 20 units of RO water plants taken from Telangana Government.
He said each of the four RO plants sent to Kashmir has the capacity to produce one lakh litres of clean drinking water to be made available to the affected people.
Gadkari’s decision followed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s direction to all central ministries and departments to join in the rescue, relief and rehabilitation measures to help and assist the State Government in tiding over the unprecedented natural calamity faced by the people of J&K.
Addressing a press conference convened to highlight the achievements of his ministries during the first 100 days of the new Government, Gadkari said a new scheme will be launched to address the problem of drinking water especially in those 17,000 habitations in the country having problems like arsenic, excessive fluoride, heavy metals and other pollutants. (AGENCIES)
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