Kerala puts price cap on bottled water

The Kerala Bottled Water Manufacturers’ Association has welcomed the decision of bottled water’s fixed price at ₹13 per litre.

Kerala has put bottled water in the essential commodity list and fixed its price at ₹13 per litre, state food minister P Thilothaman has said.

Kerala has put bottled water in the essential commodity list and fixed its price at ₹13 per litre (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

“This has been due for long. Traders and manufacturers were fleecing people by overcharging them ,” said state food minister P Thilothaman. The Kerala Bottled Water Manufacturers’ Association has welcomed the decision. “We were forced to hike prices when multinationals raised it to to ~20 a litre in 2015.The move will help the industry in the long run,” said its president M E Mohammad.