NMC-OCW goes allout against water bill defaulters

NAGPUR: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) and Orange City Water (OCW) that has launched a massive disconnection drive against one time settlement consumers have jointly snapped the tap connections of 398 defaulters in last 4 days for the pending total arrears of Rs 2.14 crore arrears.
The NMC-OCW has started disconnection drive against the water bill defaulters after the respite of one time settlement scheme.After disconnecting 59 consumers on Day 1 and 104 defaulters on Day 2, tap connections of 119 defaulters on Day 3, the team snapped connections of 116 defaulters on Day 4.
The zonal teams who are deployed on the disconnection drive are working hard on the field and despite resistance from defaulters are disconnecting defaulter’s connections. The teams are committed towards the goal and are crossing target of disconnecting 100 consumers per day.
Taking into consideration the huge arrears and the troubles of 54,700 water bill arrear holders, Nagpur Municipal Corporation had brought up a citizen convenience scheme where arrear-holders could have got rid of the arrears by paying 50% of the actual arrear amount. The scheme was valid between June 16 and June 30, 2016. In all 18,061 consumers responded to the scheme and NMC recovered Rs 9.68 crore.