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Indore, the cleanest city of Bharat continuously for the last 8 years, has contaminated and polluted water.  A death outbreak was seen in Bhagirathpura region of Indore where about 15 people (including children) have died, more than 1500 people are badly affected while more than 300 persons are hospitalized. The reason was an outbreak of acute diarrhoeal disease.  Indore is not just a normal city of Bharat, it is one of the cleanest cities according to various government surveys. This tragedy is an example of a governance paradox.

Between the last week of December 2025 and the first week of January 2026, an unfortunate event happened in Indore's Bhagirathipura region where the whole area has drunk the contaminated water. The water was contaminated due to leakage in the main pipeline of drinking water and where the leakage happened it was passing through a toilet sewage. The leakage soaked the toilet waste due to its negative pressure nature and the water got completely contaminated. The residents of Bhagirathipura had filed many complaints in the office of Municipal Corporation regarding old pipeline, leakage and poor maintenance of pipeline.  Due to carelessness of the responsible people, routine civic negligence created a mass emergency.  Various lab tests and hospital tests said that the death occurred due to contaminated water. The contaminated water causes many diseases like acute diarrhoea, hepatitis A and E, cholera, typhoid etc. If carelessness is shown for their regular testing, these diseases can be fatal in nature. These diseases mainly affect elderly people and children. NHRC has issued notice for Madhya Pradesh government and it has asked many questions regarding preventable deaths, prior complaints ignored and administrative inaction. This issue is not normal, it is a very serious offence regarding basic human rights. Our Judiciary has many times explained that ARTICLE 21 (right to life ) must be understood with  basic rights like right  to health and right to safe drinking water. Therefore , this tragedy is not an accidental harm but it is a state failure to discharge the constitutional duty. Therefore, water safety is a non-negotiable public obligation. In the case of Indore (as cleanest city) it was seen that this city was:

●       Excellent in solid waste management

●       Has better visible cleanliness

●       But it was a weak or worst performer in drinking water safety , pipeline monitoring and water quality disclosure.

This trend is always seen in every city of Bharat where contaminated water is being supplied. Each state of central India has more than 25% people drinking contaminated water. The reasons are the same, like old pipelines, sewer -water line overlap, delayed response to complaints etc. This shows how poor the basic structure of our  country is. The Municipal Corporation always acts irresponsibly in these cases especially in central India. This happens because of:

●       No independent water regulator

●       No public water quality dashboard

●       Weak contractor accountability

●       Action taken only after fatalities.

Generally, it is seen that Urban health crisis often originate from engineering failures. So surveillance must shift from patients to infrastructure, better planners must be appointed, for better quality of pipe water supply agencies should be responsible and all these must be Integrated With Health department. 

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