Jammu, Sept. 26 -- Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday conducted an aerial survey of flood affected Kathua district and assured to provide five marla land to flood affected homeless and landless families.

"There has been widespread damage during rains in August. Houses, farms, lands, roads and other infrastructure suffered extensive damage. We will try for optimum assistance from the Centre," he said.

"The government has decided to provide five marlas of land each to all flood-affected families who have been rendered homeless and have suffered both on account of their houses destroyed and left without land due to landslides and flashfloods which has taken away their everything so that they are able to construct th...