‘Under-recovery of operational cost does water utilities in’
The Hindu
TWAD Board, Metrowater grapple with huge spike in pension, maintenance costs
The White Paper on Tamil Nadu’s finances has cited the gross under-recovery of operational costs as the reason for the huge losses incurred by the Tamil Nadu Water Supply & Drainage (TWAD) Board and Chennai Metrowater. In the case of the 50-year-old TWAD Board, which is responsible for the development of the water supply network and sewerage across the State except in the Chennai Metropolitan Area (CMA), the operational cost is about ₹20.81 per kilo litre (KL), of which only ₹10.42 per KL is levied from urban local bodies (ULBs) and ₹8.11 per KL from rural local bodies (RLBs) towards water charges during 2020-21.
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