The Madhya Pradesh government on Friday removed Indore’s municipal commissioner and suspended two other officials in connection with the deaths of at least 10 persons after consuming contaminated drinking water in the city.
Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said on social media that the government will “not tolerate negligence” in the incident and that action was being taken in the matter.
While Municipal Commissioner Dilip Kumar Yadav was removed, Additional Municipal Commissioner Rohit Sissoniya and Sanjeev Shrivastava, who is the superintendent engineer in charge of the Public Health Engineering department, were suspended, the chief minister said.
More than 1,400 persons had fallen ill with symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhoea and dehydration in the city’s Bhagirathpura area, with cases being first reported on December 24. The authorities had earlier said that residents of the area had complained that the water supplied to them had an unusual smell.
More than 200 persons had also been hospitalised.
On Friday, Mayor Pushyamitra Bhargava said that he had received information about 10 deaths due to contaminated water. However, residents of the area have claimed that 14 persons, including an infant, died.
Chief Medical and Health Officer Madhav Prasad Hasani on Thursday said that laboratory reports from a city medical college had confirmed that the drinking water in the locality had been contaminated due to a pipeline leakage.
The authorities had earlier said that…
Source: Indore water contamination deaths: Municipal commissioner removed, two officials suspended
