{"id":382768,"date":"2020-11-06T11:18:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T05:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=382768"},"modified":"2020-11-06T12:23:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T06:53:56","slug":"bengaluru-after-electricity-brace-for-12-water-tariff-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bengaluru-after-electricity-brace-for-12-water-tariff-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru: After electricity, brace for 12% water tariff hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: In what could turn out to be a double whammy for Bengalureans, the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) is proposing to increase water tariff by 12%, close on the heels of an average hike of 5.4% effected in electricity charges.<br \/>\nBWSSB is seeking a revision of tariff for six years and is likely to get the government\u2019s go-ahead, given that its expenditure exceeds income. Presently, domestic consumers pay Rs 7 per kilo litre (kl) for up to 8,000 litres of water; Rs 11 per kl from 8,001 to 25,000 litres; Rs 25 per kl from 25,001 to 50,000 litres; and Rs 45 per kl for 50,001 litres and above.<br \/>\n35% price hike proposal was turned down<br \/>\nA BWSSB official said the utility\u2019s monthly revenue is about Rs 115 crore in the form of water bills, among others. About Rs 70-80 crore goes towards electricity bills, Rs 30 crore for maintenance of water supply and sewerage networks and the remaining towards salaries and other expenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: In what could turn out to be a double whammy for Bengalureans, the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) is proposing to increase water tariff by 12%, close on the heels of an average hike of 5.4% effected in electricity charges. BWSSB is seeking a revision of tariff for six years and is likely to get the government\u2019s go-ahead, given that its expenditure exceeds income. Presently, domestic consumers pay Rs 7 per kilo litre (kl) for up to 8,000 litres of water; Rs 11 per kl from 8,001 to 25,000 litres; Rs 25 per kl from 25,001 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}