Water tariff hike withdrawn in Jaipur, Rajasthan

Rajasthan’s Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) has withdrawn its decision to hike water tariffs by 10 per cent. No rise was proposed for consumers using water supplied from PHED sources up to 8,000 litres per month. Post the hike announcement, consumers were supposed to pay Rs 1.89 per thousand litres instead of the existing rate of Rs 1.76 per thousand litres.