Projects in Pipeline - Jalanidhi

A Water tariff of Jalanidhi is the price assigned to water supplied by a public utility through a piped network to its customers. The term is also often applied to waste water tariffs. Water and wastewater tariffs are not charged for water itself, but to recover the costs of water treatment, water storage, transporting it to customers, collecting and treating wastewater, as well as billing and collection. Prices paid for water itself are different from water tariffs. Water tariffs vary widely in their structure and level between user categories (residential, commercial, industrial or public buildings). The mechanisms to adjust tariffs also vary widely. • financial criteria (cost recovery) • economic criteria (efficiency pricing based on marginal cost) and sometimes • environmental criteria (incentives for water conservation) The ‘Jala Nidhi’ application is conceived and conceptualized based on the manual processes being followed at ULBs across the state of Karnataka and with an objective to computerize most of the manual processes being followed at ULBs so as to achieve transparency and better governance and administration thereby augmenting the revenues to ULBs and hence to the government. “JalaNidhi” is an application developed to capture property and water tap connection details of citizens across the 190 ULBs of Karnataka excluding ULBs for which water supply is maintained by KUWS&DB. Its objective is to capture the applicants relevant details and provide a reliable database for the municipal administration to govern at ease. The application includes features like maintenance of applications in draft mode, approved mode and approving facilities by designated authorities and report generation facilities as well to track the progress of the commissioning of this programme across the ULBs.