Mangaluru : The City Corporation will begin disconnecting water supply connections of bill defaulters starting from Monday, according to Mayor Kavita Sanil.

Addressing presspersons here on Tuesday, she said that all defaulters would have to pay the pending bills by this weekend.

The corporation would form teams for disconnecting water supply.

She said that 52,767 defaulters have paid Rs 1.42 crore towards water bill during August.

Now, various defaulters owed Rs 12.43 crore to the civic body.

To a question, Mohammed Nazir, commissioner of the corporation, said that the process of paying Rs 7 crore as compensation to 23 persons whose land got submerged while storing water at the Thumbe vented dam up to five metres was under progress.

The commissioner said that a preliminary survey has revealed that 100 acres would be submerged if water at the dam was stored up to six metres. Now another survey to identify private property and the extent of government land which would be submerged when water was stored up to six metres was under progress.