The utility's Managing Director Taqsem A Khan revealed the plan at an event at its headquarters in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar to honour “ideal users” on Saturday. WASA is also planning to launch area-based billing system to enable people from low-income group to pay less than the middle-income and rich users, according to him. It may not be possible to reduce the price for the low-income people, but we can raise the price for the others,” said Taqsem. Currently, the users in Dhaka need to pay Tk 14 for 1,000 litres of water while Chattogram WASA supplies water at Tk 12 per 1,000 litres. WASA, Dustha Shasthya Kendra and WaterAid Bangladesh co-organised the event to honour 25 of the 7,483 customers from the low-income group.

Source: bd News24 December 19, 2020 21:10 UTC