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Various offices functioning from the Kannur collectorate analyzable person accumulated astir ₹40 lakh successful pending h2o charges payable to the Kerala Water Authority (KWA). Of this, ₹5 lakh was precocious remitted pursuing the District Collector’s intervention, bringing down the outstanding magnitude to ₹35 lakh.
The collectorate analyzable houses implicit 50 offices. The Public Works section (PWD) is liable for maintaining the buildings and paying h2o charges to the KWA.
According to KWA officials, the dues had accumulated implicit the years, and contempt repeated reminders to wide the backlog, nary effectual steps had been taken. When contacted, C. Savitha, Executive Engineer, PWD Building Division, said the outstanding magnitude pertained to h2o supplied to the offices done communal connections maintained by the PWD.
A determination had been taken successful December to apportion the liability among departments based connected unit strength, pursuing a gathering convened by the Additional District Magistrate. Subsequently, the PWD sought details of unit spot from each departments to find each office’s stock of the dues. However, lone 13 offices person responded truthful far, she said.
Ms. Savitha said the dues accumulated implicit clip arsenic a projected strategy for distributing the charges among idiosyncratic offices had not been finalised. She added that idiosyncratic h2o meters had not been installed for the offices, making it hard to measure depletion separately.
She further said the District Collector had precocious reviewed the substance and was expected to convene a gathering soon to finalise the organisation of liability and betterment of the remaining dues.
