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Residents of cities and towns across Assam will be able to use their mobile phones to check their property taxes from next year onwards. Assam’s urban development department has decided to launch an e-governance project, under which the property tax collection system will be streamlined to bring in more transparency. The programme will include 89 [...] Continue Reading »
Surat may become the first city in India to make solar water heating mandatory in all buildings – residential and commercial. Union urban development ministry had made it mandatory that civic bodies of all 58 cities identified to be made “solar cities” change their construction bylaws. The order was out to make solar energy compulsory for [...] Continue Reading »
Gujarat is seeing rapid growth and transition in the real estate sector, which is being reflected in real estate growth in cities like Ahmedabad, Surat and Rajkot. Rajkot is witnessing growth in realty market and the residential values have been going up consistently. There has been a rise of 8-10 per cent in residential values [...] Continue Reading »
Around 900 flat-owners of Indra Puram Colony on the outskirts of Jalandhar are facing a tragical irony as even after paying the last installment before three years, they cannot move into the flats as basic amenities such as electricity, water and sewerage connections are missing. The flat owners paid the full amount to the Jalandhar [...] Continue Reading »
The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) is all set to reform property tax structure. Determined to go ahead with its plans to assess property tax based on capital value of structures, the civic body is likely to vie for reforms in the tax structure. TMC’s legal department will file a signed affidavit that is to be [...] Continue Reading »
Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) is on its course to implement the new model of calculating property tax. The proposed model is known as ready reckoner based property tax, which is in reality a capital based property tax. NMC has created various categories of taxpayers according to the respective location of each property. The scheduled general [...] Continue Reading »
Some Visakhapatnam real estate firms have been accused of resorting to unfair means to collect money from public and duping the public. Promising vacant plots at a cheap price, many real estate firms are either collecting huge amounts in the form of deposits or easy installments as low as Rs 25 per day. Many firms [...] Continue Reading »
The parks and green belts of Chandigarh seem to be on its way to be maintained again. The resident welfare associations (RWAs) of Chandigarh have shown interest in the municipal corporation‘s offer to maintain green belts and neighbourhood parks. At present around 1,600 neighbourhood parks lie neglected, with Municipal Corporation expressing its helplessness to maintain [...] Continue Reading »
Amravati Municipal Corporation (AMC) held its general body meeting in which key decisions were taken regarding industrial incentives and Below Poverty Line (BPL) facilities. AMC is planning to give concession on local body tax (LBT) and house tax to the industries in the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC). In the general body meeting, decision has [...] Continue Reading »
Senior citizens and retired employees of Allahabad organised a meeting at Chandra Shekhar Azad Park in which they raised concern over hike in house tax. United Forum of Pensioners Association, expressing the views of retired employees have urged the municipal commissioner, mayor, district magistrate to take measures to reduce the proposed hike. The state government [...] Continue Reading »
