Domestic consumers will have to pay Rs 3.94 for every thousand litres of water as the public health engineering organisation is gearing up to install water meters at nearly 72,000 households across the city. The organisation intends to commission the project in households at Unit-I, Unit-III, Unit-IV, Unit-IX, Old Town, Saheed Nagar, Rental Colony at Nayapalli, Chandraskeharpur and Ghatikia by February next year.
Commercial establishments in the designated areas will have to cough up Rs 13.03 for every thousand litres of water.