JAIPUR: The Public health and Engineering Department (PHED) will start a survey to ascertain the number of industries and factories that were shut without water bill clearance. The survey will begin on November 22 and officials will track down the owners and send the bills to their homes.
If a person refuses to pay on time, his or her house connection will be discontinued.
In the city, around industries with 4,000 water connections out of which 2,000 have been disconnected and 2,000 are still connected. Connected ones are easy to track, but for the disconnected ones, PHED officials have to find out how many of them haven’t paid their bills.
PHED additional chief engineer Manish Beniwal said, "We have to find out the pending bills and their owners as many factories and industries were shut down during pandemic. Their owners are still living in the city. We will track them and give them the bills. If they pay it on time it is ok. Else, we will discontinue their house connections."
PHED will start a campaign from November 22 to recover water bills pending in the Jaipur region. Bills worth more than Rs 100 crore are pending with the public and various government departments. Also, many water bills are pending for the last 10 years. During the campaign, people will be given an option to either pay the bills on the spot when officers go to collect it or their water connections will be disconnected within a few days.
