This time, the municipality will consider the area of the residences as the basis on which the service charges will be levied on residential and commercial complexes.

This method of calculating water charges is a departure from the municipality’s previous decision taken 10 days ago. It was suggested that charges be calculated on the basis of the quarterly property taxes paid by the owners.

For instance, it was decided that anybody paying upto Rs 500 per month as quarterly property tax will have to pay Rs 30 as water supply charge. For commercial complexes, it had been earlier decided that the charges will be imposed based on the ferrule size of the pipelines in the complex.