<p class="title">Apartment complexes with 50 or more flats will be fined 25% of the water bill if they fail to instal sewage treatment plants by December 31. The penalty will be 50% if they do not instal STPs even after three months. </p>.<p class="bodytext">BWSSB Chairman, Tushar Girinath, said notices had been issued to 1,043 apartment complexes to set up STPs, but most them had not fallen in line. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The Bangalore Apartments' Federation is protesting against the BWSSB decision on Saturday. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Another senior official of the BWSSB said: "People bother only after we penalise them. But this is the only way this issue can be set right."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Meanwhile, the board has clarified that people living in multi-storeyed buildings (ground plus two) that do not have occupancy certificates (OCs) must pay 50% of the monthly water bill as fine. Municipal corporation guidelines mandate OCs for multi-storeyed buildings. "Issuing OCs is the BBMP's job. We are just doing our job," the official said. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The issue was raised at the BBMP council's monthly meeting on November 29. </p>
<p class="title">Apartment complexes with 50 or more flats will be fined 25% of the water bill if they fail to instal sewage treatment plants by December 31. The penalty will be 50% if they do not instal STPs even after three months. </p>.<p class="bodytext">BWSSB Chairman, Tushar Girinath, said notices had been issued to 1,043 apartment complexes to set up STPs, but most them had not fallen in line. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The Bangalore Apartments' Federation is protesting against the BWSSB decision on Saturday. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Another senior official of the BWSSB said: "People bother only after we penalise them. But this is the only way this issue can be set right."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Meanwhile, the board has clarified that people living in multi-storeyed buildings (ground plus two) that do not have occupancy certificates (OCs) must pay 50% of the monthly water bill as fine. Municipal corporation guidelines mandate OCs for multi-storeyed buildings. "Issuing OCs is the BBMP's job. We are just doing our job," the official said. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The issue was raised at the BBMP council's monthly meeting on November 29. </p>