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Water Crisis in India — SSB Lecturette Speech Outline

SSB Lecturette practice illustration — candidate delivering a 3-minute speech at a lectern on the GTO ground to a semicircle of fellow candidates.

Rivers, groundwater and daily habit. Use this outline under a 3-minute prep clock, then speak without reading.

Category: social · Format: 3 min prep + 3 min speech

Opening hook (~40 seconds)

Many Indian cities now measure summer in tanker hours, not in temperature.

Body — three points (~90 seconds)

  1. Over-extraction of groundwater and polluted rivers are a management failure, not only a rainfall failure.
  2. Fixes: recharge, leak control, crop choice in dry belts, and treating sewage before it re-enters a river.
  3. Household habit still matters: a running tap is a policy you can run without a ministry.

Closing line (~50 seconds)

Treat water like ammunition — accounted, stored, never wasted on show.

What to avoid

Do not promise you will “build a dam”. Stay at scale you understand.

Practise with the hub timer and the Lecturette GTO guide (3-3-3 structure, body language, chit selection).

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