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Will netas, Indore officials drink that water, asks Rajdeep Sardesai

Indore has been consistently ranked India's cleanest city for eight consecutive years, which makes the criminal negligence that led to water contamination deaths in the city even more telling and worrying. If this happens with pipe municipal water in Indore, think of other towns and cities in the country.

The Modi government's smart city project has not been able to usher key urban governance reform yet, nor have state governments risen to the big challenge of our times.

Worse still, as we have seen in Indore, accountability is a word that is simply not in the dictionary of our netas. Let me therefore ask a basic question to the netas and officials of Indore again, those who are in charge to ensure proper tendering. How many of you, I ask you again, how many of you will drink the water that a majority of common citizens have to live with?
 

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