Hindi → English transcript

Indore is considered the cleanest city in India. For eight years in a row,

it has been coming in at number one in these cleanliness rankings. But last month,

in this city,

10 people were killed just because… … clean water got mixed with sewage water.

In Indore’s Bhagirathpura, the toilet of a police outpost…

… was built right on top of the main water pipeline.

And no safety tank was built under it either… …

so all this waste was accumulating in a pit.

One day, this pipeline broke and the sewage…

… mixed into the clean water and reached people’s homes. After drinking this water,

more than 1,400 people fell ill…

… and more than 200 people were hospitalized. By 31 December,

310 patients had come to the primary health center in this area.

One of them was a five- month- old baby.

The parents had mixed water into this baby’s milk and fed it to the child…

… after which he became very sick. So sick that within three days this child died.

Ninety- five percent of the patients were women, of whom… …

seventy to eighty percent had kidney failure.

The most shocking thing is, friends…

… that this incident could have been prevented.

The first complaint about bad water in Bhagirathpura came in October.

It said that the borewell water was mixing with the drain.

In November, there was another complaint.

People said that there was acid in the water…

… and on December 18 another complaint was made about a foul smell from the water.

And by the time December 28 came around, in the ward where Bhagirathpura falls…

… ninety percent of the people there had already fallen sick.

In Indore, the file for the new water pipeline… …

was ready as early as November 2024.

Its tender had already been issued in July 2025…

… but when was the work order passed? On December 26, 2025.

Right when people started falling ill. After people died,

when journalist Anurag Dwary…

… asked the local MLA and minister Kailash Vijayvargiya a question… …

look at his response.

A lot of people still have not got the refunds they were promised…

… they have not got those either,

Kailash ji, and there is still no proper arrangement for drinking water…

Oh, leave it, man, do not ask freebie questions.

After this, when Anurag said this is not some freebie question…

… this is a question of people’s lives, then look what he says.

What the hell have you even done?

What the hell have you even done? The point…

Twenty- six years ago, in the year 2000, for the first time…

… Kailash Vijayvargiya became the mayor of Indore.

Since then he has been winning elections again and again from this very area… …

so it is obvious that the questions will be asked to him.

When this video went viral on social media, friends…

After this, in Indore people started protesting with bells. Watch this video…

… in this, policemen are snatching bells from the protesters’ hands.

If such a terrifying,

avoidable incident had happened in any developed country…

… then forget the MLA, even the Chief Minister would have had to resign.

But in this case, action was taken only against some small- time people… …

like the municipal commissioner being removed from his post.

The additional commissioner

and the superintendent engineer were removed from their duties… …

but no action at all was taken against any big shot.

Just think, if this is the condition of the country’s cleanest city…

… then what must be the condition of the other cities in the country.