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We get 450 lts a day, Antilla guzzles 2,430

When it comes to fair treatment, there isn't any if you compare the ordinary with the high profile.

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When it comes to fair treatment, there isn't any if you compare the ordinary with the high profile.

While the municipal corporation's rule says that a household should get 450 litres a day, if the household lives in a building called Antilla, the supply can go up by as much as five times to 2,430 litres a day, according to information procured under the Right to Information Act, 2005. 

Antilla on Peddar Road is the residence of billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani and its monthly water consumption is said to be five lakh litres. The information was made available after Anil Galgali, an RTI applicant, filed a plea seeking information on Ambani’s water usage.

According to the reply given by the water supply department in D Ward, apart from the water received for domestic and residential usage, the building receives another 15,800 litres a day for commercial use, which adds up to 18,230 litres a day. In the bill raised by the civic body for 27 days in January–February, the building received 4,72,000 litres of water, for which Rs16,370 were paid.

“The BMC has a policy of calculating water supply to a particular building on the basis of per person usage, of which the authorities have been informing the public from time to time," said Galgali. "Hence, it is worth enquiring how the BMC calculated the quantum of supply to the Ambani residence. Every day, we hear that corporators are boycotting standing committee meetings on poor water supply, while no one talks about this.”

Asked about this, the BMC's chief hydraulic engineer, Dinesh Gondalia, said, “I will have to inspect the building to react to the query.” Ambani’s public relations firm was approached for a comment, but there was no response.

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