CHENNAI: The strategy of obtaining a water and sewerage connection is on-line and even the fees are fixed, but the officers involved make it difficult earlier than touts help you get it — for a worth. The going fee for a Metrowater connection, formally Rs 7,500 (plus infrastructure construction charges (IDC) for flats), is Rs 15,000. This is particularly true in newly-added areas the place only 50% of citizens have connections supplied by means of Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board or Metrowater. Apartment owners need to shell out as much as Rs 30,000.
Kolathur resident Lakshmi* paid a minimum of 10 visits to the Metrowater headquarters in Chintadripet and is but to get a connection.
“The first time they instructed me, I hadn’t crammed the shape correctly. When I corrected it, they stated I had to come with some circle of relatives member’s name in the property tax receipts. After I were given that accomplished, they sent me again saying the cartoon of the valuables will have to have more main points,” she stated. The 50-year-old has now decided to means a tout.
This repeat rejection of packages, says Ambattur United Welfare Association general secretary S Suresh, is the common method employed. “They can simply let us know to make all corrections in a single consult with itself,” he stated. The 55-year-old flat proprietor is now the proud proprietor of a water and sewerage connection after paying Rs 20,000, including IDC, and Rs 7,500 to a tout.
The touts, most of them former employees of Metrowater, make things easy. IdealNews contacted touts Guna and Vijay who stated they would come house and gather the entire paperwork for a connection. “We supply services and products only to known other people as we don't need hassle. We gets it accomplished inside of a week,” stated probably the most males. Asked if they're going to now not face any issues, considered one of them stated he was a former Metrowater worker and knew everyone there.
Thousands of citizens of areas like Madipakkam, Thiruvottiyur, Alandur, Madhavaram and Manali, all included in the city company in 2011, have all been availing of such services and products to avoid travelling lengthy distances. Meenakshi Sundaram, a 58-year-old central executive worker, stated, “The government will have to arrange places of work in each added space so that other people needn’t shuttle 20-30km every time.” More than 10 years ago, officers in Metrowater stated, citizens of each company zone were supplied connections in the local administrative center. “The device was centralised to take away irregularities,” stated an engineer.
This ‘centralisation’, says Ambattur United Welfare Association president P Solai, has complicated things. “We met the former managing director of Metrowater, Ashok Dongre, in January and even met the chief engineers. They all promised action. Nothing has been accomplished,” he stated.
Metrowater managing director T N Hariharan stated citizens will have to hotel proceedings. “We are right here to do so. We will first issue a showcause notice and if they repeat the offence, we can suspend the officers. Residents can check in for these connections on-line and will have to now not make use of any middleman,” he stated.
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Kolathur resident Lakshmi* paid a minimum of 10 visits to the Metrowater headquarters in Chintadripet and is but to get a connection.
“The first time they instructed me, I hadn’t crammed the shape correctly. When I corrected it, they stated I had to come with some circle of relatives member’s name in the property tax receipts. After I were given that accomplished, they sent me again saying the cartoon of the valuables will have to have more main points,” she stated. The 50-year-old has now decided to means a tout.
This repeat rejection of packages, says Ambattur United Welfare Association general secretary S Suresh, is the common method employed. “They can simply let us know to make all corrections in a single consult with itself,” he stated. The 55-year-old flat proprietor is now the proud proprietor of a water and sewerage connection after paying Rs 20,000, including IDC, and Rs 7,500 to a tout.
The touts, most of them former employees of Metrowater, make things easy. IdealNews contacted touts Guna and Vijay who stated they would come house and gather the entire paperwork for a connection. “We supply services and products only to known other people as we don't need hassle. We gets it accomplished inside of a week,” stated probably the most males. Asked if they're going to now not face any issues, considered one of them stated he was a former Metrowater worker and knew everyone there.
Thousands of citizens of areas like Madipakkam, Thiruvottiyur, Alandur, Madhavaram and Manali, all included in the city company in 2011, have all been availing of such services and products to avoid travelling lengthy distances. Meenakshi Sundaram, a 58-year-old central executive worker, stated, “The government will have to arrange places of work in each added space so that other people needn’t shuttle 20-30km every time.” More than 10 years ago, officers in Metrowater stated, citizens of each company zone were supplied connections in the local administrative center. “The device was centralised to take away irregularities,” stated an engineer.
This ‘centralisation’, says Ambattur United Welfare Association president P Solai, has complicated things. “We met the former managing director of Metrowater, Ashok Dongre, in January and even met the chief engineers. They all promised action. Nothing has been accomplished,” he stated.
Metrowater managing director T N Hariharan stated citizens will have to hotel proceedings. “We are right here to do so. We will first issue a showcause notice and if they repeat the offence, we can suspend the officers. Residents can check in for these connections on-line and will have to now not make use of any middleman,” he stated.
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Rs 7,500 water connection costs Rs 15,000
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