STATE’S first Alkaline Water Vending Machine has been installed at Canal Linking Road in Pt Ravishankar Shukla Ward-35 under Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC) Zone-4 on Tuesday. Raipur North MLA Kuldeep Juneja inaugurated the Alkaline Water Dispenser Machine in the presence of Mayor-inCouncil member Akash Tiwari, Corporator Prakash Jagat, RMC Zone-4 Commissioner Vinay Mishra, Executive Engineer Lokesh Chandrawanshi and ward denizens. This is the first public alkaline water vending machine in Chhattisgarh. It operates on German technology to convert normal water into alkaline water. It increases the Ph value of water and also hikes the oxygen-level. Alkaline water is quite beneficial for digestion system. Corporator Akash Tiwari informed extended gratitude to Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and Urban Administration Minister Dr Shivkumar Dahariya for the water vending machine.