Nearly 50,000 consumers, including those in hospitals, function halls and cinema halls, had sewerage connections but were using the Water Board's sewer network without paying any amount.


The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) will start issuing bills from January to consumers who use its sewerage network but do not have water connection.

A recent survey conducted by the Water Board found that nearly 50,000 consumers, including those in hospitals, function halls and cinema halls, had sewerage connections but were using the board's sewer network without paying any amount.

"We have decided to allot Sewerage Consumer Account Number (SCAN) on the lines of CAN to sewerage connection-only customers. Once, the Water Board allots SCANs, we will issue bills to consumers based on tariff fixed by the Municipal Administration and Urban Development department," HMWS&SB executive director K Ashoka Reddy told TOI.

According to the new tariff, consumers (individual domestic/residential) up to 80 square (sq) metres (mts) plinth area need not pay sewerage cess. For plot owners between 81 and 200 sq mts, Rs 50 per month, 201 sq mts-400 sq mts Rs 60 and above 400 sq mts Rs 60 and 50 paise for every additional sq mt.

Read More on: Times Of India