HYDERABAD: The state government has asked various departments to clear
the water dues of Rs 160 crore to the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water
Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB).

At a review meeting here on Friday, chief secretary Minnie Mathew
asked the officials to find ways to clear the pending water arrears
because of the serious financial crisis faced by the Board. “Major
departments like home, panchayat raj and rural development, municipal
administration and urban development (MA&UD), health, medical and
family welfare and A P

Housing Board
owe a collective Rs 160 crore to us,” HMWS&SB director (technical) D
Sunder Rami Reddy told TOI. tnnThe panchayat raj and rural development
wing is the top defaulter with Rs 97 crore dues followed by MA&UD
with Rs 24 crore dues. Recently, the AP high court issued orders to the
HMWS&SB to collect the dues from the government departments
following a public interest litigation filed by a city-based NGO.