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Minister orders action against guilty over deaths due to fluoride in drinking water

Ranchi, Jun 18 (UNI) Jharkhand Water Resources and Sanitation Minister Chandraprakash Chowdhary today directed the Principal Secretary of his department to take necessary action over the deaths of people in Garhwa district due to drinking water contaminated with fluoride.
Mr Chowdhary has directed the official to send a team to Pratappur Village of Garhwa district where 36 people have died over the last 10 years due to drinking water contaminated with fluoride.
The Minister warned that strict action would be those officials, who have been negligeny taken in their work. He also directed to identify the spots and make sure that in this fiscal itself arrangements were made to provide clean drinking water.
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