INDORE TRAGEDY SHOULD TRIGGER ACTION NATIONWIDE

IT'S a crying shame that at least 10 people including an infant have died from imbibing contaminated municipal water in India's 'cleanest city'.

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The mayor of Indore has admitted that human excreta leaching into the main water pipeline in the city's Bhagirathpura area caused an outbreak of diarrhoea that affected more than 1,400 residents. The matter jumped to national prominence on Wednesday, when the Madhya Pradesh High Court directed the city corporation to ensure clean water supplies. But residents from the affected area have been calling the mayor's helpline with complaints of contaminated, foul-smelling water from as far back as October. And this happened in a city adjudged the cleanest in India by the Union ministry of housing and urban affairs for eight consecutive years.