To encourage people living in unauthorised colonies to get legal water connection and also boost its revenue, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has decided to reduce the fee and penalty for legalising illegal water connections.

While in the domestic category, the fee dropped to Rs 1,000 from the current Rs 26,000, and in the non-domestic category, the charge was reduced to Rs 5000 from Rs 61,000. The scheme will be valid till March 31 and after that the people will have to pay the earlier rate.

Addressing mediapersons, Water Minister Parvesh Sahib Singh said, “Currently, people living in unauthorised colonies do not have legal water connection. Most of them take illegal connections as the regularisation fees are high… So, we are giving them an opportunity to regularise their connections by March

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