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Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Wednesday (May 27, 2026) urged each Union Cabinet Ministers to guarantee that their respective Ministries and departments instrumentality indispensable steps to mitigate the interaction of the prevailing heatwave conditions crossed the country.
Addressing a media briefing aft the furniture meeting, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the Prime Minister stressed the request for a "whole-of-nation" attack to woody with the utmost vigor situation.
Mr. Vaishnaw said the Prime Minister directed each ministries to instrumentality due enactment to support radical from the heatwave, peculiarly departments specified arsenic wellness and h2o resources.
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"The premier curate said each ministries indispensable instrumentality steps to support radical from the heatwave, particularly ministries specified arsenic wellness and h2o resources, and see what measures tin beryllium taken. He was wide that specified large challenges should beryllium addressed done a whole-of-nation approach, with the Centre, states and citizens moving together," the Minister said.
Asked astir the measures the authorities plans to take, Mr. Vaishnaw said idiosyncratic Ministries and departments would find their respective courses of enactment and added that the Centre has besides reached retired to State governments.
PM Modi connected Wednesday (May 26) urged citizens to instrumentality maximum precautions arsenic the state continues to witnesser soaring temperatures, stressing that staying hydrated is cardinal during harsh upwind conditions.
In a bid of posts connected X, Mr. Modi said children, the aged and those moving outdoors are particularly susceptible to utmost heat.
He cautioned radical against ignoring signs of vigor exhaustion, informing that it tin rapidly crook unsafe and whitethorn adjacent pb to heatstroke.
