The Hindu 12.09.2017
Corporation to mobilise Rs. 60 cr from deposit revision
The
Coimbatore Corporation hopes to mobilise Rs. 60 crore from its recent
effort to hike the deposit to drinking water connections. The
Corporation has said that those who had availed of water connections
prior to October 1, 2013 should pay Rs. 4,000 or so if the connection
was for their house, Rs. 7,000 or so if the connection was a bulk
connection, the same amount if the connection was for commercial use and
Rs. 12,000 for industrial use.
Coimbatore Corporation hopes to mobilise Rs. 60 crore from its recent
effort to hike the deposit to drinking water connections. The
Corporation has said that those who had availed of water connections
prior to October 1, 2013 should pay Rs. 4,000 or so if the connection
was for their house, Rs. 7,000 or so if the connection was a bulk
connection, the same amount if the connection was for commercial use and
Rs. 12,000 for industrial use.
The Corporation says that it hopes
to mobilise around Rs. 50 crore from those domestic connections that
were in use prior to October 1, 2013. At present the Corporation has
1.83 lakh domestic connections.
Similarly, it hopes to raise Rs.
18.27 lakh from bulk connections, another Rs. 4.64 lakh from commercial
and Rs. 78.45 lakh from industrial connections.
In all, the estimate is that the civic body would get around Rs. 60 crore.