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NEW DELHI, NOV. 10. Condemning the announcement of a steep increase in water tariff, the Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly, Jagdish Mukhi, today said the Congress Government in Delhi seemed to be under pressure from the world lobby and was in league with some multinational companies to privatise the Delhi Jal Board. "Otherwise it would not have initiated the move to create a Water Regulatory Commission," he added. A regulatory commission was needed only to monitor the activities in the private sector, and when the Government was itself managing the supply of water, there was no need for a commission. Though the Delhi Chief Minister might be presently denying any privatisation move, but her modus operandi indicates that privatisation of water distribution in the Capital was on the anvil, he said. Stating that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would never let this happen and was always for heavily subsidised public utilities like water and public transport, Mr. Mukhi said under the new tariff structure, the Delhi Government had decided not to spare even the rate at the lowest level for domestic consumers that would be hiked from 35 paise per kilolitre to Re.1. Similarly, rates for commercial and industrial use would also go up by many times. It was unfortunate that during the past six years of its rule, the Congress Government had failed miserably in increasing a single drop of drinking water. As per data provided by Ms. Dikshit in the Assembly, water requirement in Delhi was 860 million gallons per day while the Capital was getting just 600 MGD of raw water where 30 per cent goes waste. Ironically, in the Capital 50 per cent of its population does not get potable water at all and had to depend on ground water, he added, and asked the logic behind hike of tariff when the Government had failed in fulfilling its duties. According to the Leader of Opposition, if the DLB was privatised, it would lead to major scam as happened at the time of the privatisation of the Delhi Vidyut Board. He declared that the BJP would oppose increase in water tariff by organising protests and dharnas to compel the State Government to withdraw its proposal.
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