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CMC to regularise water connections

Chitradurga: With unauthorised water connections causing heavy revenue loss, the City Municipal Council (CMC) has launched a drive to regularise such connections.

According to sources, the CMC’s decision to regularise the unauthorised connections is aimed at augmenting its revenue and curbing the misuse of water.

CMC office administrator N. Nisar Ahmed has said that under the Municipalities Act, the CMC can register criminal cases against people who fail to regularise their water connections.

The council has set June 30 as the deadline for regularisation.

Mr. Ahmed said that regularisation of a domestic water connection would cost Rs. 5,080, while Rs. 8,000 had to be paid for regularising a commercial connection.

“We started the drive three days ago, and already 20 people have regularised their connections,” he said.

The city has about 10,000 unauthorised water connections.

The council earns a revenue of Rs. 65 lakh a year and spends over Rs. 1.5 crore for supply of water and maintenance of the connections. “The CMC has so far been collecting a tax of Rs. 540 annually on each connection, but since the proposal has been made to supply water throughout the day, we are planning to increase the tax,” he said.

Before the completion of the Shanti Sagar project, the city was receiving water from the Vani Vilas dam, which could supply 6.5 million litres a day (mld), while the city’s water requirement is around 19 mld.

Considering the future requirements, the Shanti Sagar project is proposed to supply 30 mld.

Mr. Ahmed said that most areas in the city were already receiving water from the Shanti Sagar project, while preliminary testing was going on in some areas.

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