Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said that the government did an assessment across the city with regard to water bills and found that approximately 11 lakh families in Delhi have been receiving faulty bills.
Speaking to the media on Saturday he said that it was during COVID period that the meter readers did not visit the houses to take the meter reading due to the pandemic, and while sitting in their office they filled in wrong meter readings that resulted in wrong and spiked water bills.
Kejriwal who reached Govindpuri area on Saturday along with water minister Atishi, met people and discussed the faulty inflted water bills issue.
The Delhi CM further said that with the scheme formulated by the government the issue can be addressed, however, he alleged that the centre was creating barriers in the implementation of the scheme through the senior government officials.
Kejriwal further said that the public did not pay the faulty bills and the interest penalties kept on adding those pending bills increasing them to lakhs of rupees.
Delhi CM said that such large number of bills cannot be rectified easily and it would take years to do it, and added that the government has made a scheme to settle the issue by calculating an average reading, and based on government’s Delhi CM claimed that with the scheme around 95 per cent of the wrong bills will become ‘zero’ and those citizens who are running from pole to posts will get much relief.
The AAP has said that people walked up to Kejriwal with their problems and assured their support to their CM, asking him to bring the one time settlement scheme to address the water bill problem faced by many people.