{"id":45697,"date":"2024-08-21T11:14:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T06:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=45697"},"modified":"2024-08-21T11:14:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T06:14:24","slug":"water-sewerage-bills-to-receive-23-increase-in-karachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/water-sewerage-bills-to-receive-23-increase-in-karachi\/","title":{"rendered":"Water, sewerage bills to receive 23% increase in Karachi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: In response to rising utility costs, the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/wife-of-gul-ahmed-energy-ceo-arrested-following-fatal-accident-in-karachi\/\">Karachi Water and Sewerage Board<\/a> has approved a 23 percent increase in water and sewerage bills.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, made at a board meeting led by <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/sadiq-khan-re-elected-as-mayor-of-london-for-third-time\/\">Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab,<\/a> includes a 14 percent rise in water charges and a nine percent increase in sewerage charges, effective next month.<\/p>\n<p>The hike adds to the financial strain on residents already facing higher utility bills. Jamaat-e-Islami has strongly opposed the increase, with Saifuddin Advocate, the party&#8217;s leader in the<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pia-announces-massive-discount-for-saudi-arabia-flights-details-inside\/\"> Karachi City Council<\/a>, criticizing the board for failing to deliver basic services and calling the increase unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, municipal tax is now being collected through electricity bills, further impacting living costs in Karachi. The decision is part of broader efforts to address the city&#8217;s growing financial demands for municipal services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: In response to rising utility costs, the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board has approved a 23 percent increase in water and sewerage bills. The decision, made at a board meeting led by Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab, includes a 14 percent rise in water charges and a nine percent increase in sewerage charges, effective next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":36363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3334,20670,20669],"class_list":["post-45697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-murtaza-wahab","tag-karachi-water-bills","tag-karachi-water-sewerage-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45698,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45697\/revisions\/45698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}