Fix AMR meters for all commercial consumers: MD Dana Kishore

Khairatabad: Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) Managing Director M Dana Kishore on Friday instructed the officials to fix the Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) units at commercial establishments in city.

HMWS&SB MD Dana Kishore chaired a meeting on the issue of fixing AMR meters the commercial consumers with the higher officials of revenue department of HMWS&SB at head office at Khairatabad.

Dana Kishore said that they got good results and revenue after fixing the AMR meters to some 4000 commercial establishments. In city there are around 9 lakh connections and in that 40,000 consumers are belongs to commercial establishments, he said.

He instructed the officials to fix the AMR meters all the commercial consumers by the water board expenses and later it will be collected in instalments from them, he said. AMR meters will show the exact usage of the water by commercial consumers in city and it will increase the revenue of the water board, he said. To identify the illegal water connections in city, around four task force teams would be made, added the MD.