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With regards,
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27 June 2013

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Friday, 4 June 2021

Law is fine : Add some Incentives as well

 


 

Context :

To ensure water recycling in housing societies, Centre to mandate double-piping for approvals  

(  Business Line – 05 June 2021 )

 

Extract :

Ø  The Centre will issue a double piping criterion for building approvals to new housing societies to ensure that water is recycled and reused on the premises, Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar said on Friday

Ø  “We are now issuing a new criterion for building approvals where there as to be DOUBLE PIPING, one of which is to reuse water at the housing society level. That will be stored in a separate storage tank and used for flushing only “, Javadekar said at TERI World Sustainable Development Summit

Ø  NEW housing societies will need to install a COMMON EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT on the premises to treat water for reuse, he added

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Dear Shri Javadekarji,


Congratulations on this initiative for recycling of water


But why limit it to only NEW housing societies, when quite likely, we have over 200,000 OLD / EXISTING housing societies, which continue to waste water ?


I agree, we cannot MANDATE this NEW CRITERION to OLD societies, retrospectively . It would be unfair


But how about offering to these OLD housing societies, some VERY POWERFUL INCENTIVE as suggested in my following , 5 YEAR old e-mail ?


Ø  Incentivize Housing Societies …………………………….. [ 27 Apr 2016 ]


Extract :

 

Here is how :

 

*  The society where I live ( Marol / Mumbai ) has 200 Members ( flats )

 

*  Each member pays monthly Municipal Tax of ( approx ) , Rs 600

 

*  That translates to Rs 1.2 lakh per month ( Rs 14.4 lakh / year )

 

*  In 5 years , Society pays to Municipality, Rs 72 lakhs

 

*  Govt / Municipality to make it compulsory for each big society ( size to be

    decided ), to install on its premises :

 

       Methane gas generating plant or Compost Fertilizer plant

 

           (  to take care of wet / organic garbage )

 

 

      #   WATER RECYCLING PLANT ( TO FILTER AND REUSE WATER

           FROM SHOWER / WASH BASIN / KITCHEN SINK FOR TOILET

           FLUSHING PURPOSE )

         

 

                  

 

       #   A Compacting Press for dry waste ( paper / bags / cartons etc )

 

 

*   Towards installation of such plants , Municipality to give a discount of 25 %

     to the Society in monthly taxes for a period of 5 years

     

     

     That is a rebate of Rs 150 / month / flat for 5 years

 

     This would work out to a saving of Rs 18 lakh ( 25 % of Rs 72 lakh )

 

*   This amount should be sufficient for the Society to invest in these plants

     and for paying wages for persons needed to look after their operations

 

 

 

I believe such a positive incentive will motivate most of the Societies to undertake to install such facilities

 

 

As a negative incentive , Govt / Municipality should levy additional surcharge of 25 % on the monthly taxes ( ie raise to Rs 750 / month in our case ) to those societies which fail to implement this scheme within ONE YEAR of notification

 

 

It is high time citizens are involved and motivated ( through negative as well as positive incentives ) in keeping their cities clean and its environment pleasant

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Dear Shri Javadekarji,


In last 5 years since sending this e-mail, no doubt the financial numbers would have undergone changes. That apart, monthly property-tax rates / amounts, differ from municipality to municipality


But nothing stops the Central Govt to append following to the “ APPROVAL “ guidelines :


“ Any loss of “ Property Tax Income “ suffered by a State on account of introduction of such INCENTIVES, will be reimbursed by the Central Government, upon submission of relevant documents “


Just imagine 2 Lakh OLD housing societies, each needing 1000 feet of Galvanized Pipes !


And if wet / organic Garbage is converted to Methane Gas ( for use in kitchens of all members of a housing society ), then the requirement for pipes could well become 2,000 feet / society !


That would give a huge boost to PIPE / PIPE-FITTINGS MANUFACTURERS


This incentive will also provide lakhs of jobs to :


Ø  Plumbers / Plumbing Contractors

Ø  Architects

Ø  Masons ( constructing concrete water-filtration / storage tanks and Garbage Compost Tanks )



With regards,

Hemen Parekh  /  hcp@RecruitGuru.com  /  05 June 2021

 

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