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Committee Probes Indore Water Contamination Tragedy
A state-level committee will investigate the causes and accountability of the contaminated water outbreak in Bhagirathpura, following at least 15 deaths linked to the incident.
- On January 2, Dileep Kumar Yadav, Indore Municipal Corporation Commissioner, was transferred after a diarrhoea outbreak claimed several lives, and Chief Minister Mohan Yadav suspended various civic officials.
- Earlier this month the IMC-supplied water was found contaminated, and public anger focused on delays repairing decades-old drinking water and sewage pipelines with complaints predating his tenure.
- Authorities have provided Rs 2 lakh payments to families of 21 persons, with conflicting death figures: 15 linked to water contamination, locals report 24, and the state claims seven, including a five-month-old, and 11 patients remain hospitalized.
- The Madhya Pradesh government on Tuesday formed a probe panel led by Sanjay Kumar Shukla to examine causes, with members including P Narhari, Sanket Bhodave, and Sudam Khade, to submit its report within one month.
- Following his transfer, Congress criticized the BJP government, calling the appointment a reward system for insensitivity.
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The Madhya Pradesh government on Tuesday told the High Court that bacterial contamination of drinking water led to widespread infection in Indore's Bhagirathpura area, where several people have died of diarrhoea and vomiting since December-end.
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