Sheila Dikshit Favours Increasing Power, Water Tariff To Prevent Wastage

Pitching for serious efforts to conserve scarce resources, chief minister Sheila Dikshit today favoured increasing the tariff on power and water to prevent their wastage.

Dikshit, while speaking at a function to mark the World Environment Day, identified limiting consumption of energy and water as main challenges facing the city and appealed to citizens and government agencies to make serious efforts to conserve them.

Addressing the gathering, IPCC chief RK Pachauri suggested increasing the tariff on power and water to make people understand the value of the scarce resources.

"We will have to take serious efforts to save the environment. We will have to control wastage of water and power. If the solution to limit consumption of water and power lies in increasing the tariff as suggested by Pachauri then we support it," Dikshit said.

The chief minister, who also flagged off a rally featuring battery operated cars, herself drove a Reva car from her 3, Motilal Nehru Marg official residence to the NDMC Commonwealth Garden in Africa Avenue.

The chief minister said the rising population in the city has put a lot of pressure on its scarce resources.

She said 42% of the total water distributed by the Delhi Jal Board goes waste.

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Delhi jal nigam water bills

We are able to pay our bills online for power, telephone, internet etc. But Jal Nigam has lagged behind in offering this service. Jal Nigam should take this up on a fast track.

Gurcharan Singh
Shivalik Apts,
Alaknanda,
Kalkaji, Delhi

'Inflated' water bills trouble Lajpat Nagar III

Lajpat Nagar III residents are tired of complaining the DJB authorities about getting bills that they claim are inflated. "The billing system is not at all satisfactory. They send bills without taking actual reading. It seems that the bills are sent on assumption basis," complains Harvinder Singh, president, Lajpat Nagar III RWA. "If a resident receives an inflated bill, DJB officials don't rectify the bills and instead instructed the consumer to pay part of the amount," adds Harvinder.

PP Singh, a senior citizen and an agitated resident got a bill that he had never expected. He says that he had been charged on the basis of the commercial rate of his flat. "I own the front portion of basement of House number E 21 in Lajpat Nagar III and for which I am using under ground water of submersible pumps. I had already informed DJB office by writing letters to their office," he says.

PP Singh says when DJB authorities had accepted his plea earlier, then why was this issue raised again. "This makes a clear case of harassment to a senior citizen. If bills like this surprise us every time, then what else can we expect from authorities?" he asks.

"Earlier, DJB used to provide its own water meters and then there used to be no problem. But, this system changed and now there are private water meters installed at each house. What we want from the DJB is that they should provide their own water meters and must take charge of their maintenance, so that whatever problem is there with the meter, it must be under the control of DJB." suggests PP Singh.

Angry residents accompanied by RWA members met CM Sheila Dikshit and apprised her about their problems. The CM phoned DJB CEO Ramakant Goswamy, who in process assured to look into the matter personally.

"We held a camp for inflated bills and submitted the same to DJB. We hope now our problems will be solved," hopes Harvinder.

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