Nagpur: Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) is ready to start its own bottling plant for bottled water.
The wave of the Mayor of Dayashankar Tiwari, the Civic body aims to generate additional income with this business.
The proposal was nodded at the Nagpur Environmental Services Limited (NESL) board meeting on Monday.
“To reduce dependence on conventional income sources that are always restricted, NMC has emerged with better detailed blueprints still being done to provide bottled drinking mineral water safely safely at affordable prices,” said Mayor to Ti while confirming developments.
The bottling plant will appear at the Kanhan water treatment plant under the private public partnership model, and is in the tender stage.
Tiwari said it would be the responsibility of the company to promote and publish packaging water because NMC can lack resources in marketing it.
The mayor said NMC would provide a 1-liter water bottle at a price of half the market.
Even though NMC hasn’t decided on the product name, we can call it Nanee (Nagpur Neer), said the mayor.
A senior official from NMC said the Department of Public Health Engineering completed a tender document and would soon drift.
Civic’s body has not expected capital costs to be issued in the project.
The source, however, said that NMC will face a harsh opposition from the Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Authority (Mwrra).
Already raised objections to Civic’s body that supplies domestic water to commercial units, including Indian trains, Indian airport authorities and restaurants.
According to Mwrra’s condition, NMC draws water from two sources – Navaegaon Khairi and Kanhans – for household needs, while it also provides water to commercial consumers.
Mrra has suggested the Civic body to revive the body of the water in the city to meet its commercial demands.
Mwrra has identified around 11,000 users and commercial institutions to whom NMC supplies water by collecting commercial rates, sources from Mwrra said.
NMC supplies drinking water to around 3.73 Lakh consumers covering 10,988 commercial and institutional consumers.
It collects Rs8.15 per unit of water from domestic consumers, while for institutional and commercial consumers, the level varies from RS21.17 to RS97.74 per unit.
To lift raw water from Navaegaon Kaairi and Rivers Kanhan, NMC pays RS12 Crore to the irrigation department.
When Tii brought this to the Mayor’s notice, he clarified that if Mwrra said so, NMC would not mind paying additional fees for the last.
NMC to regulate mineral water bottling plants
