Municipal Administration and Urban Development Special Chief Secretary Arvind Kumar issued orders to all the hotels, restaurants, fast food centers and street vendors in Greater Hyderabad to provide purified supplied by Metro Water Works or R.O Water free of cost to the customers.
Special Chief Secretary has issued instructions to the GHMC Commissioner to take appropriate action in this regard. In case packaged bottled water bottles to be supplied to their customers the managements should sell only on the MRP price which is printed on the water bottle.
The Special Chief Secretary responded to a complaint lodged by NGO that many hotels and restaurants in the city were selling packaged drinking water under the name of different brands at exorbitant rates causing immense inconvenience to the public.
