"Our ministry has taken all measures to deal with the situation and a contingency plan to supply fuel for four power plants has been worked out," Ramamurthy told the economic editors' conference here.

The government has already received information that waters were receding, he said and hoped that normalcy would be restored within a week.

The minister said alternate arrangements for fuel was being made from Mumbai and Haldia.

The centre had on Thursday directed state-owned oil firms to draw up a contingency plan to tackle the emergency after flood waters submerged facilities of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and Gas Authority of India Ltd at Hazira.

Plans were drawn up to supply liquid fuel to all the gas-based power plants of National Thermal Power Corporation atAnta, Auria, Dadri in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi Vidyut Board.

Control rooms have been set up to monitor the situation and liquified natural gas situation has been reviewed and adequate stocks are available.

Supplies of kerosene and other petroleum products are being rushed to flood-affected areas in Gujarat and despite heavy water-logging, the Gujarat refinery has continued near normal operations.

Reports from Ahmedabad said the intensity of flash flood in Surat on the banks of Tapi reduced on Friday. But, several industrial units, including the 645 mw NTPC power plant, Kribhco fertiliser plant, Gujarat Gas, ONGC and IOC installations, and HBJ pipeline, still remained shut down after they were submerged.

Life has been disrupted in several other towns in south and central Gujarat, including Baroda, Broach, besides Daman, due to heavy rains in the catchment areas of dams in different rivers upstream.

According to an official release from Gail, the reduced supplies are being maintained for power plantsand these are expected to last for about 36 hours. Senior Gail officials have rushed to the spot. Gail is currently handling about 35 million cubic metres of natural gas per day from Hazira. By late afternoon on Thursday, the compressor station was under two feet of water and water had entered the control room also.