3 weeks ago
1
Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) collects penalties of implicit ₹18 crore connected mean a month, astir 10% of its wide h2o measure gross present pegged astatine astir ₹200 crore a month.
Out of the astir 10.85 lakh connections it serves, 1.52 lakh connections are penalised each month.
BWSSB levies punishment for 3 kinds of violations: for not installing Rain Water Harvesting (RWH), for buildings without Occupancy Certificate and for not installing Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs).
RWH systems
All caller buildings built aft 2016 connected plots of 30X40 feet and supra person to instal RWH systems. Not installing the aforesaid tin pull a punishment of 50% of the h2o measure for a abbreviated play and connected further non-compliance volition spell up to 100% of the measure each month. Data shows that 49,431 buildings wage punishment for not installing RWH and this amounts to an mean of ₹4.56 crore a month.
V. Ram Prasath Manohar, Chairman, BWSSB, precocious announced that the Board volition henceforth instal RWH strategy astatine a outgo of astir ₹8000 - ₹10,000 for a built up country of 2400 sqft. Till now, consumers had to get RWH systems installed done 3rd enactment vendors. The Board has besides offered to instal the RWH strategy and cod the outgo successful monthly instalments adjusted to the punishment the user has been paying.
“Our extremity is not to cod penalties, but to guarantee h2o conservation. The Board installing RWH is simply a win-win concern for the user and the metropolis arsenic well,” Mr. Manohar said. (Till here)
OC Charges
BWSSB collects the astir successful penalties successful the signifier of OC charges from buildings without Occupancy Certificates owed to violations of gathering norms, to which the Board has fixed connections. Depending connected the size of the building, the punishment tin alteration betwixt 50% to 100% of the h2o bill. A whopping 1.03 lakh specified buildings wage an mean punishment of ₹13.20 Crore, per month.
Earlier, h2o and powerfulness connections were fixed to each buildings adjacent though they bash not person OCs from the civic assemblage connected the grounds that these are basal amenities. However, a December 2024 Supreme Court bid made OC mandatory for inferior connections. Following this, the State authorities has fixed immoderate concessions to the OC rule.
“Earlier, we person fixed connections to buildings without OCs arsenic well. A gathering with ample standard violations puts a batch of unit connected our infrastructure network. Our sewage web is often overwhelmed and we request to repair it often. Considering each these costs, the punishment imposed connected specified buildings is less,” Dr. Manohar said.
STP charges
BWSSB besides collects ₹27 lakh per period arsenic punishment from buildings that are mandated to instal STPs, but haven’t. There are lone 320 specified buildings and sources successful BWSSB said efforts are connected to person them and get them to instal STPs.
