Delhi Govt Waives Development And Infrastructure Charge On Water, Sewer Connections

Mumbai:- The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi has announced to waive off development and infrastructure charges for water and sewer connections. The decision was announced by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at a press conference today. Kejriwal also heads the Delhi Jal Board.

“Infrastructure and development charges will not be collected. The government makes the investment to develop infrastructure and it will continue to invest. It is the duty of the government to invest in new pipelines, new water plants and pumping stations. It is the responsibility of the government to create infrastructure for the people from the tax collected from them,” he said.

“Anyone who wishes to take a new connection of water and sewer will have to pay only Rs 2,310. Earlier, Rs 1,14,110 was charged for a 200-metre plot, but now it has been reduced to Rs 2,310. For a 300-metre plot, earlier the charge was Rs 1,24,110, but it has also been revised to Rs 2,310,” the CM added.

He said that the people in large numbers will take water and sewer connections in areas where pipelines have already been laid. “And people will come under network, so the unaccounted water will be reduced and will come in the mainstream,” Kejriwal said.

The CM also said that 93%of states are covered by water pipelines now. Kejriwal said that he expects people in areas where the water pipelines and sewer lines have reached to apply for new connections and come under the network. This, he said, will help the government to check the leakage in the system and save unaccounted water by bringing them into the mainstream.

“I don’t want to indulge in politics. They don’t have anything to with water but to do dirty politics,” He refused the comment on water controversy. “When we formed the government, there were 2300 areas where polluted water was a problem now only 125 areas are,” he said.

Meanwhile, Kejriwal said that he is not interested in politics over the water issue, days after a Bureau of Indian Standards report stated that the city’s water failed the quality test.

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