IRCTC joins relief ops in J&K

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Sep 10 2014 | 9:07 PM IST
IRCTC, a railway undertaking, has joined relief operations for flood-affected people in Jammu and Kashmir by supplying them 1.92 lakh bottles of drinking water until yesterday with one lakh more bottles on the way today.
"IRCTC tied up with Air Force authorities. The first lot of railneer (its branded water), comprising 5,520 cartons carrying 66,240 one liter bottles, was airlifted from Palam Air Base here on September 7," it said in a statement today.
It sent 25,920 bottles the next day by train to Jammu while over one lakh bottles were again airlifted on September 9 for the people in Kashmir".
IRCTC is dispatching water from its plant in Nangloi.
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First Published: Sep 10 2014 | 9:07 PM IST