AHMEDABAD: A couple of months before, that the World Bank was ensured a water metering and tariff plan for Ahmedabad will probably be set up after a Rs 3,000 crore loan has been hunted for strengthening Ahmedabad’s drainage and water system.
Now the recently featured standing committee of the civil company, the policy-making entire body, has set the coverage under abeyance until the forthcoming Gujarat assembly elections a year ago.
The policy says that there’ll not be any extra water charge in the event the household consumes inside the 22.5K per cent per month.
In case the water use exceeds this limit then a fee of Rs 10 each 1,000 litres will be billed from customers in residential locations.
“Water prices increases according to use.
For example in the event the water use is between 22.5K to 30K litres per month afterward an extra Rs 75 per month and also some additional 10K litres consumed would encourage an excess Rs 275per cent 575 per cent 975 per month when consumption extends around 1 lakh litres per month or two over,” says a senior standing researcher.
“Among the commitments we’ve made into the World Bank would be to make water use answerable for metering and charging taxpayers.
We gather blanket water use fees that comes to about Rs 183 crore for the whole city.
Obviously, Rs 153 crore water taxation is gathered from big institutions, colleges, schools, universities, industrial properties and government offices,” the official added.
The water tariff plan was revised four times because 2012 and has since been placed in abeyance from the elected standing committee of the AMC.
“We’re presently legalizing illegal water connection with charging just a blanket Rs 500 a link, but we don’t have any info on water use of this city until date.
The World Bank will require us to meter the water source.
There are small odds of postponing water prices this moment,” he explained.