Hyderabad: A tenant paying a monthly rent of Rs 6,000 for a single bedroom flat in the IT corridor has to spend nearly Rs 3,000 for water.
Mr Y. Narender Reddy, a resident of Anjaiahnagar near Gachibowli, said, “I am a tenant of a single bedroom flat at an apartment and the rent per month is Rs 7,500 plus Rs 1,000 maintenance. The apartment committee has increased the maintenance to Rs 3,000, the additional amount is being collected for purchasing water,” he said.
He added that the additional amount was being collected in apartments with more than 20 flats. “It has become mandatory to pay additional maintenance in all the apartments here,” he said.
Mr K. Rajam Raju, a software professional from Kondapur, said he had to shift to Chandanagar due to the water crisis. “I was residing in an independent house at Kondapur. After the crisis began in February this year, the owner of the house started insisting that I vacate as water was not sufficient to meet the requirements of both families. Many techies who have rented portions of independent houses at Gachibowli, Manikonda and Puppalaguda are facing the same situation,” he said.
Private operators charging up to Rs 1,000 for 5,000-litre tankers in Manikonda, Puppalaguda and Neknampur localities which fall under the Panchayat Raj department. Due to the restrictions imposed on water tankers in GHMC limits, the private operators have increased the rate here up to Rs 1,500.
Mr G. Raju from Gachibowli said that the private water tanker owners were strictly imposing the condition that if they were fined by the traffic police while supplying water, the consumer would have to pay the challan amount. “Otherwise the private operators will supply water during nights and we will have to lose our sleep waiting for them,” he said.
