This is the highest the Water Board has collected since its establishment in the 1980’s.

This could be possible due to the efforts and initiatives taken up by the Managing Director M T Krishna Babu in the last two months.

He told reporters that the coffers started ringing after the streamlining of the billing mechanism. Appointment of additional meter readers, fixing of responsibility for serving bills from the first to the 15th of every month and revenue collection in the remaining days has resulted in the gradual increase in finances.

The Board used to collect an average revenue between Rs 23 crore and Rs 25 crore but in October, it touched Rs 31 crore. Pleased with the staff performance, HMWS&SB has set fresh target of Rs 40 crore for the next four to six months through prompt delivery of water bills, metering of the defunct meters, replacing the non-functional meters for one inch and above connections, billing all the existing CANs (Consumer Index Numbers).

As against the existing 6 lakh CANs, only 5.25 lakh to 5.50 lakh bills were being generated by the meter readers every month.

Buoyed with this, the Water Board will offer incentives to the employees if they took the monthly revenue collection to Rs 40 crore.