Corporation to disconnect water supply of bill defaulters

The process will begin on Monday, says Mayor Kavita Sanil

September 06, 2017 02:07 am | Updated 02:07 am IST - MANGALURU

Mayor Kavita Sanil, Naresh Shenoy, Assistant Executive Engineer, and M. Shashidhar Hegde, during a press conference at the Mangaluru City Corporation on Tuesday.

Mayor Kavita Sanil, Naresh Shenoy, Assistant Executive Engineer, and M. Shashidhar Hegde, during a press conference at the Mangaluru City Corporation on Tuesday.

Mangaluru City Corporation will begin disconnecting water supply connections of bill defaulters starting from Monday, according to Mayor Kavita Sanil.

Addressing presspersons here on Tuesday, she said that all defaulters would have to pay the pending bills by this weekend.

The corporation would form teams for disconnecting water supply.

She said that 52,767 defaulters have paid ₹ 1.42 crore towards water bill during August.

Now, various defaulters owed ₹ 12.43 crore to the civic body.

To a question, Mohammed Nazir, commissioner of the corporation, said that the process of paying ₹ 7 crore as compensation to 23 persons whose land got submerged while storing water at the Thumbe vented dam up to five metres was under progress.

The commissioner said that a preliminary survey has revealed that 100 acres would be submerged if water at the dam was stored up to six metres. Now another survey to identify private property and the extent of government land which would be submerged when water was stored up to six metres was under progress.

Completion certificates

The Mayor said that many builders in the city were allowing purchasers of flats to occupy them without obtaining building completion and occupancy certificates. Later, builders did not bother to get these certificates.

Hence, many flat purchasers are approaching the corporation with complaints against builders as the owners cannot sell the flats without completion certificates and door numbers.

But the corporation has little role to play in helping the purchasers as the civic body cannot give completion certificates if the builders had violated licence conditions.

It is mandatory that those who have taken licence for building apartments from 2016 onwards would have to build sewage treatment plants (STP) to obtain completion certificates.

Hence, purchasers of flats should verify whether the particular apartment had completion certificate. Otherwise, they would face problems regarding water supply, power supply, sewage connection and the like. Builders should allow owners to occupy flats only after getting completion certificates.

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