The Bangalore Water Provide and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) will emulate the mannequin adopted by state transport companies to revise water tariffs, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D Okay Shivakumar mentioned on Wednesday.
“Although we can not utterly minimize losses, we try to manage them. Within the coming days, water tariffs can be revised alongside the mannequin adopted by the transport division,” mentioned Shivakumar, who can be the Bengaluru growth minister.
Water tariffs had been revised for the primary time in 11 years in April. Shivakumar mentioned the tariff revision helped the BWSSB scale back its annual losses by Rs 500 crore.
Whereas the inhabitants in Bengaluru is round 1.4 crore, the inhabitants in Anekal, on the outskirts of town, has reached 50 lakh.
“We’re supplying water to the 110 new villages included within the metropolis limits. We hadn’t elevated water tariffs for greater than a decade. Owing to this, the BWSSB was incurring a lack of Rs 400-500 crore per yr. There are data to point out that in some situations the losses suffered touched Rs 1,000 crore,” he mentioned.
Shivakumar was talking at an occasion to have fun the BWSSB’s accomplishment of setting a Guinness World Report for a water conservation measure through which round 5.33 lakh Bengaluru residents pledged to avoid wasting water.
The Guinness World Information certificates was handed over to Shivakumar throughout the day.
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