GUNTUR: Guntur Municipal Corporation will soon weed out all illegal water tap connections in the city by either regularising or disconnecting them, Mayor Kanna Nagaraju has said.

The corporation will conduct a survey in all divisions to detect illegal tap connections.

If the Assistant Engineers find illegal connections but do not report them they will be punished.

"Our Assistant Engineers and fitters have voluntarily declared existence of 5,000 illegal connections and we had lost about Rs. 4 crores, which could go up to Rs. 6 crores if no action is taken in time," he said.

Modalities

At the next council meeting the modalities of regularisation of the illegal taps would be decided, he said.

"In my opinion a regularisation penalty and normal connection fee must be imposed on such connection holders," Mr. Nagaraju told The Hindu .

The corporation was aiming at providing water 24 hours a day within the next few months for which a Rs. 6-crore raw water pipeline must be laid from Guntur Channel to Takkelapadu.

The raw water pipeline proposal was pending with the Government.

"The contract of Willburn Smith Associates as World Bank consultants has been terminated and a new consultant appointed to help GMC execute three pipeline projects at Takkelapadu, Sangamjagarlamudi and Takkelapadu to Nehru Nagar," he added.

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