Restaurants in Hyderabad continue to charge for water bottles despite instructions from the Telangana government to provide free drinking water to customers.
Rohit Salla, a customer shared the bill from a restaurant on Twitter and highlighted the charges for water. “Sir, despite your instructions, most of the restaurants are not providing free water for dining customers. Please find attached bill of one of the restaurants where I was left with no option but buy packaged drinking water. Kindly look into it,” he said. In the picture shared by Salla, it can be seen that the restaurant charged Rs 8 for each water bottle.
Addressing the issue, Hyderabad-based activist Vijay Gopal said, “Two weeks ago, Arvind Kumar shared a communiqué asking restaurants to refrain from charging for drinking water. However, the government should enforce it.”
He further said, “Two weeks ago, when I was at Pista House, the staff there said there was no free drinking water. Hence, I was forced to purchase packaged bottles.” When this reporter recently visited a bakery, the staff there charged Rs 10 for a water bottle.
