State government owes the civic body about Rs481.52 crore only in water bills that run over the years. Housing and Home departments owe BMC maximum amount of dues, not just this, even Chief Minister Bungalow's water bill of Rs 7.4 lakh is due of last year along with other 18 other ministers. While the Housing department that owes Rs290 crore, Home department owes Rs96 crore. The BMC has an outstanding revenue of over Rs 2092.02 crore for about the last two decades. 

While the disparity in recovering the dues of water used is from the BMC’s end, as no action is taken against the government water meters but recovery is only focused on private residential and commercial structures. The civic officials, however, stated that as the amount to be recovered is higher from such private buildings, we focus on this, whereas the government agencies are intimated through various written correspondence.