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Amma Kudineer - Tamilnadu Government Schemes
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- Amma Kudineer (meaning Mother drinking-water in Tamil language) is a mineral water production and distribution project run by Government of Tamil Nadu, since September 2013.
- Project involves production and packaging of mineral water in one litre plastic bottles, and selling them in long-distance running state-owned buses and in bus stations, at price of INR 10 per bottle.
- Project intends to make purified water available to people of all strata, at a reasonable cost.
- Indian Railways has been undertaken a similar scheme under name Rail neer, with its one-litre bottles priced at INR 15, while private companies sell 1-litre bottles at higher prices.
- Amma Kudineer scheme is run by Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation, with a production plant in Gummidipoondi in Thiruvallur district.
- Plant can produce 3 lakh liters of purified water per day. The total dissolved solids (TDS) in the water is reported to be below 50 parts per million (ppm), as compared to a requirement of below 150 ppm in water from lakes and in rainwaters.