Kolkata: West Bengal government is sending drinking water pouches to flood-ravaged areas of Jammu and Kashmir as immediate relief, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said.
"A large section of my brothers and sisters in Kashmir are extremely distressed due to massive floods. Huge number of tourists from different places are also stranded in Kashmir. Many tourists from my state are stranded there as well. In this hour of crisis, we expect everyone to co-operate," she said in a Facebook post. "For immediate relief, we are sending drinking water pouches to the flood affected areas. We are by their side and hope that flood water would soon recede and people would get back to their normal lives," she posted.
"Our best wishes are with them", she added. Banerjee called Public Health Engineering minister Subrata Mukherjee to 'Nabanna', the state secretariat and asked to arrange for sending the water pouches, officials said. Principal secretary to PHE department Sourabh Kumar Das said that for the time being two lakh pouches are being sent for the flood-affected in Jammu and Kashmir,
which is now facing scarcity of drinking water.
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