New Delhi, Sep 11 (IANS): The union drinking water and sanitation ministry Thursday rushed two lakh litres of bottled water for the flood-affected people of Jammu and Kashmir, an official release said here.
The ministry has also dispatched water purification plants of four lakh litres capacity per day to help augment the drinking water supplies in the state.
Union Rural Development and Drinking Water and Sanitation Minister Nitin Gadkari took the decision to airlift drinking water on a war footing following a high level meeting here.
The meeting followed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's direction to all the 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 Jammu and Kashmir, the release said.