Amid a heated debate among the members of Raichur City Municipal Council (CMC), the civic body has decided to pay a compensation of ₹10 lakh each to the families of three people who died after drinking contaminated water.
The decision was taken at an emergency meeting of the general body convened to discuss the issue on Tuesday. The meeting also resolved to repair the water pump at the Chikkasugur water purification plant.
As the meeting started, Srinivas Reddy and Basavaraj Patil Darur, members of the civic body, demanded that the authorities give a valid reason that forced the civic authorities to supply contaminated water to the people of Raichur, which led to the death of three people and caused vomiting and diarrhoea in over hundreds of people.
