Expensive water: Ahmadabad consume 145 crore liters of the water worth a Rs 62 lakh every day, shocking in a figures.
Water scarcity has a started every year at the beginning of the summer. According to the current information, only one dam in a Gujarat has a water. The second demo is a empty. However, water is a being wasted by a some citizens. Speaking of the Ahmadabad city, the citizens of the Ahmadabad are given Narmada water. Ahmadabad Mani for a getting this water. The corporation pays more than a Rs 225 crore annually to the government. More than 18 crore is a paid per month. While a more than Rs 62 lakh has to be paid daily. These figures are shocking. These are eye openers for a water abusers.
Water drops are the price of the drops and there is a saying that water will be a sold for a money. This saying has proved true in the case of the Ahmadabad city. Every citizen needs 150 liters of the water daily for a drinking including bathing and washing. Ahmadabad Mani by a counting five members in a each family. 750 liters of the water is supplied by the corporation. Although at the present some societies or a factories use water by a making their own boreholes, but Ahmadabad Mani to the supply water to the entire citizens. The corporation are receives water from in the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Corporation and the Irrigation Department. For in this they are paid an a amount every year.
According to the agreement between in the two, the amount of the water is a fixed at one thousand liters each. Accordingly, in a 2021-22, each one thousand liters was a Rs 4.18. In a 2022-23, they will be have to pay Rs 4.60 for every one thousand liters. This is an a increase of 10 per cent every year. In the year 2021-22, Ahmadabad Mun. Rs 226 crore was a paid by the corporation. Five years ago today, in a 2016-17, the citizens received 704 M L D per day. Water was a supplied. Against in this, in 2021-22, the daily average is a 1450 ml. D. Water is a supplied.
Ahmadabad mini. The corporation pays a different amount of the each year. In the year 2016-17, for a every 1000 liters of the water, they paid Rs. 2.59 crore for a Rs. While in a 2017-18, they paid Rs 26 lakh per day and Rs 7.83 crore per month at Rs 2.85 per 1,000 liters, in 2018-19 they paid Rs 36 lakh per day and Rs 10.83 crore per month at Rs 3.14 per 1,000 liters. So in 2019-20, Rs 43 lakh and Rs 13 crore per month was a paid for a Rs 3.45 and in 2020-21, Rs 50 lakh per month and Rs 15.25 crore was a paid for a Rs 3.80 per 1000 liters, which in 2021-22 became Rs 4.18 per 1 thousand liters per day. The average amount paid was a Rs 62 lakh and monthly 18.83 lakh and Rs 226 crore was a paid annually.
Daily consumption are increased to the 1484 M L D
If we check the condition of the last six years, in a 2016-17, Ahmadabad mini. 704.213 M L D averaged by in the corporation. Was a receiving water, which are increased to 899.418 M L D in 2017-18. Were getting. So in 2018-19 1138.742 M L D. And 1240.670 M L D in a 2019-20, 1316.956 in 2020-21 and 1484.008 M L D in 2021-22. Were are a getting water.
176 crore was a received as a water tax against in the expenditure of the Rs. 226 crore
Ahmadabad mini. Water is a provided to the citizens every day by the corporation. For in this, water tax is also levied in the tax collected from in the citizens every year. The amount of the water tax was a paid by the citizens in the last 2021-22.
Ahmadabad gets water from three canals
Citizens of the Ahmadabad have been a provided 400 M L D from Jaspur-Dholka Branch Canal and 850 M L D from a Kotarpur Main Canal. And the 200 M L D from a Shedhi Canal. Water is a provided. This means that are daily citizens get the 1450 M L D. Water is a provided. If we calculate in the liters, each M L D. That is a 10 million liters of the water. According to the sources of the corporation, 1450 M L D i.e. 145 crore liters of the water is a being supplied to the Ahmadabad.
Rs 176 crore is a received from the water tax: Pradeep Dave
Ahmadabad mini. Pradeep Dave, vice-chairman of the corporation's are revenue committee, said in the corporation collects taxes in a every year. The water tax is a 33 per cent. In a 2021-22, out of the taxes paid by the citizens, only Rs 176.18 crore was a received by the corporation as a water tax.
Every year there is an a increase of the 10% in a April: Jatin Patel
Ahmadabad mini. Jatin Patel, chairman of the corporation's water are supply and sewerage committee, told Divya Bhaskar that the corporation was a getting in the required supply in the phases to the ensure adequate supply of the water to the people. In a 2021-22, Rs 226 crore was a paid at the rate of the Rs 4.18 per one thousand liters. The old prices are increased by a 10 per cent in a April every year. So the people must use the necessary water, but also to the see that it is not a wasted.
