A note on Water Subsidies by AAP

I'm very glad that AAP's government has started to keep their words from the outfit. And one from those stated is Subsidy of water. I just want to let everyone know the fact of how this subsidy works. Through subsidization, the government thinks of the short term gains. When one can take a deep look at the scheme to subsidize water for those consuming less than 20 Kilo liters of water, they can find that it must be done only through a metered system. But the people who are in requirement of subsidies are mostly either unmetered or with defective meters. Hence the real challenge is that those outside the water supply system must be connected to it. Laying down pipelines in every locality, installation of taps in every house can only be provided by a healthy board. Thus it must be noted that the water subsidy has completely ignored the weakest section of Delhi. The poorest of the Delhi have been kept out of the water subsidy scheme i.e. Localities without a pipeline, households without a tap, households without a meter, households with defective meters are not entitled to any subsidy. Households in the NDMC area, particularly of those lesser paid employees, households in Delhi Cantonment area have all been kept out of the water subsidy. This subsidy ignores the weakest and includes a small layer of people with metered consumption. A very large number of people in Delhi have no water connection and are not covered by the free water scheme. They are reliant only on tankers. A very large number of unauthorized colonies have no pipelines and are yet to be covered by laying of water pipelines. There are no individual house connections and hence they are outside the purview of the free water scheme. Many of the cooperative housing societies have bulk connections, Individual flats are not metered. They too cannot obtain free water. Some of Delhi’s middle class whose connections are metered and who keep their consumption below 20 Kilo liters i.e. 666 liters per day alone are entitled to the free water scheme. Those whose consumption exceeds the 20 kilo liters mark would be charged for the entire consumption with a hike of 10% in tariff. Delhi thus can be divided into four categories. The first is those who have no taps or pipeline connections. Second are those with defective or no meters. Third and fourth category are those with functional meters whose consumption is < 20 Kl of water and > 20 Kl of water respectively. The scope of the benefit has narrowed down to just some of the households falling in one of the above four categories i.e the third category.
Thus one (not only the people but also the AAP government) must note that its not only the subsidy that is needed for the poorer but also the basic working infrastructure and good board to control the proceedings.