{"id":48955,"date":"2019-02-09T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=48955"},"modified":"2019-02-08T18:23:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T13:23:32","slug":"wasa-to-bring-tariff-at-par-with-cantonment-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wasa-to-bring-tariff-at-par-with-cantonment-areas.html","title":{"rendered":"WASA to bring tariff at par with cantonment areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rawalpindi: The Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) has decided to revise its commercial tariff in a bid to increase revenue, a news source quoted Rawalpindi Authority (RDA) Chairman Arif Abbasi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wasa-to-increase-tariff-to-meet-expenditures.html\">WASA to increase tariff to meet expenditures<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He said that the agency will revise its commercial tariff to bring it at par with charges that are being implemented in the cantonment areas. This measure will significantly increase WASA\u2019s revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the owners and developers of housing societies have been asked to pay water bills to WASA. Abbasi said such a policy was never implemented in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The agency is also separately charging every commercial outlet situated in more than 400 plazas across the city. Furthermore, it is contemplating collecting separate bills from each floor of five-marla houses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wasa-plans-to-arrest-illegal-users-falling-outside-amnesty-cover.html\">WASA to arrest illegal users falling outside amnesty cover<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the directives of the RDA chairman, WASA launched a drive against individuals who had obtained water connections through illegal means. WASA teams surveyed residential and commercial areas in Rawalpindi and notified the citizens to get their connections regularised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rawalpindi: The Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) has decided to revise its commercial tariff in a bid to increase revenue, a news source quoted Rawalpindi Authority (RDA) Chairman Arif Abbasi. Read:\u00a0WASA to increase tariff to meet expenditures He said that the agency will revise its commercial tariff to bring it at par with charges that are being implemented in the cantonment areas. This measure will significantly increase WASA\u2019s revenue. Meanwhile, the owners and developers of housing societies have been asked to pay water bills to WASA. Abbasi said such a policy was never implemented in the past. The agency is also separately charging every commercial outlet situated in more than 400 plazas across the city. Furthermore, it is contemplating collecting separate bills from each floor of five-marla houses. Read:\u00a0WASA to arrest illegal users falling outside amnesty cover On the directives of the RDA chairman, WASA launched a drive against individuals who had obtained water connections through illegal means. WASA teams surveyed residential and commercial areas in Rawalpindi and notified the citizens to get their connections regularised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":48961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10391],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-wasa-to-bring-tariff-at-par-with-cantonment-areas"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WASA to bring tariff at par with cantonment areas - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rawalpindi: The Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) has decided to revise its commercial tariff in a bid to increase revenue, a news source quoted\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wasa-to-bring-tariff-at-par-with-cantonment-areas.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WASA to bring tariff at par with cantonment areas - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rawalpindi: The Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) has decided to revise its commercial tariff in a bid to increase revenue, a news source quoted\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wasa-to-bring-tariff-at-par-with-cantonment-areas.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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