Project to supply pure drinking water in border areas of Kashmir begins

Ensuring supply of pure drinking water to the people, the national rural water quality monitoring and surveillance project began in the border area of Uri in Baramulla district today.

Inaugurating the first-of-its-kind project in Jammu and Kashmir at Uri, 100 km from here, minister for public health engineering Taj Mohi-ud-Din said it would be instrumental in ensuring supply of contamination-free drinking water to the people.
      
He said similar projects would be opened in ten districts of Baramulla, Kupwara, Kulgam, Pulwama, Budgam, Doda, Rajouri, Poonch, Udhampur and Jammu at a cost of Rs1.75 crore in the second phase.

Taj said Rs22 lakh would be spent on the project in Baramulla under which test kits would be made available in different schools of the district for testing purity of drinking water.