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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav has said that ensuring the proviso of harmless drinking h2o to each national was the work of municipality section bodies and directed officials to forestall the proviso of contaminated h2o nether each circumstances.
Mr. Yadav's directive came after 7 persons died successful Indore's Bhagirathpura area precocious pursuing a diarrhoea outbreak triggered by the depletion of contaminated water.
Mr. Yadav is besides the guardian Minister of Indore, ranked arsenic the country's cleanest city.
The Opposition Congress, which has sought the resignation of MP Urban Development Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya successful whose constituency the calamity took place, is scheduled to clasp a monolithic protestation implicit the h2o contamination deaths successful Indore connected Sunday (January 11, 2026).
Addressing a high-level gathering astatine the airdrome successful Bhopal aft returning from a sojourn to Sagar district, CM Yadav connected Saturday (January 10, 2026) launched a state-wide 'Swachh Jal Abhiyan' (Clean Water Campaign) aimed astatine ensuring harmless drinking h2o successful some agrarian and municipality areas, a authorities connection said.
He said the prime of drinking h2o indispensable beryllium tested regularly and alternate arrangements should beryllium made instantly if contamination is detected.
"This is simply a large challenge, but it indispensable beryllium addressed with seriousness truthful that the authorities tin acceptable an illustration for the country," Mr. Yadav added.
The Chief Minister said the authorities was committed to amended absorption to supply axenic drinking h2o to each and called upon nationalist representatives and officials to discharge their responsibilities efficiently.
The Clean Water Campaign volition beryllium conducted successful 2 phases - the archetypal from January 10 to February 28 and the 2nd from March 1 to March 31.
As portion of the initiative, 'Jal Sunwai' (water grievance hearings) volition besides beryllium organised to code drinking water-related issues of citizens, the CM said, asking officials to instrumentality these hearings seriously.
Mr. Yadav directed that each pipeline leakages beryllium repaired promptly to guarantee harmless drinking h2o from a nationalist wellness position and stressed that cleanable h2o should scope each household.
He appreciated the usage of a mobile exertion by the municipality medication section for monitoring the initiative.
Warning of strict action, the Chief Minister said immoderate laxity successful the proviso of cleanable drinking h2o would not beryllium tolerated.
The campaign, launched done video conferencing, focuses connected h2o security, its conservation and grievance redressal. It includes cleaning of each h2o purification units and drinking h2o retention tanks, with monitoring done a GIS-based mapping application.
Under the initiative, h2o and sewage pipelines volition beryllium mapped connected GIS platforms, interconnection points volition beryllium identified, and leakages volition beryllium checked, including done robotic inspection. Regular investigating of drinking h2o sources and monitoring of sewage attraction plants volition besides beryllium undertaken.
The authorities has besides made peculiar arrangements to registry drinking water-related complaints connected the helpline fig 181. Applications related to drinking h2o problems volition beryllium resolved wrong a stipulated clip framework and applicants volition beryllium informed accordingly.
Mr. Vijayvargiya, mayors, territory panchayat presidents, divisional commissioners, collectors, municipal commissioners, CEOs of territory panchayats and nationalist representatives from municipality and agrarian areas participated successful the gathering via video conferencing.
Additional Chief Secretary for Urban Development and Housing, Sanjay Dubey, made a presumption connected h2o security, conservation and grievance redressal, stating that continuous nationalist consciousness activities would beryllium conducted done assorted media.
He said radical would besides beryllium capable to get h2o prime tested astatine nominal charges, and the inaugural would beryllium linked with the Swachh Bharat Mission, with enactment from wellness and women and kid improvement departments.
