Municipality
The Standing Committee of the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) presented the Rs 1,810.82 crore civic budget for 2012-13 in the general body meeting(GBM). The standing committee, while modifying the budget worked out by the former municipal commissioner, had rejected proposals to hike house and water taxes. The former commissioner had proposed 10 per cent hike [...] Continue Reading »
Heavy rains in Mumbai seemingly may have brought relief to Mumbaikars as well as to the civic officials. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Authority (BMC) officials are now contemplating if they should still go ahead with cloud seeding project to increase water levels in the lakes around Mumbai, as the heavy downpour last few days have seemingly [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has given a three-day deadline to engineers of the roads departments to inspect the major Ganpati routes in their jurisdiction. The engineers are asked to report all potholes that need to be attended to. They have been asked to report the potholes on the civic body’s website following which the [...] Continue Reading »
Big house owners in Chandigarh will have to pay more in house tax as compared to those of smaller houses. The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has decided to impose higher taxes on big houses once the house tax is imposed. The municipal corporation compiled details of the size and number of houses in the city. There [...] Continue Reading »
The corporators in Pimpri-Chinchwad have demanded that the penalty being charged by the property tax department from citizens for unauthorised constructions after January 2008 be reduced. The PCMC property tax department has started sending notices to the owners of the unauthorised constructions directing them to pay a penalty equivalent to the property tax of the [...] Continue Reading »
Bidhannagar Municipality is all set to restart the process of collecting property tax in Kolkata. The civic body had started collecting taxes in March, but the tax collection process had to be stalled a couple of weeks later after some confusion over tax calculation came out. Now the officials have declared that they are to [...] Continue Reading »
Serious flouting of responsibilities of public officials came out in the open in inquiries carried out by Corporation of Chennai. Inquiries have shown that in several cases, assistant revenue officers in the zonal levels do not deposit property tax cheques on time. As a result, residents are fined for late payment. Top Corporation officials suspect [...] Continue Reading »
Civic authorities in Delhi have taken a strong stand against property tax defaulters. The South corporation has attached the bank accounts of 114 properties, which have been defaulters. People and organisations with the highest amount of pending payments have been targeted by the authorities. Most of them had not paid taxes for years despite repeated [...] Continue Reading »
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has asked property owners who do not have water connections to pay extra property tax to make up for the delay in hiking general water tax. Owners in some localities do not have the water connection. As NMC has started to distribute property tax bills for this fiscal, property tax [...] Continue Reading »
The Noida Authority has decided to speed up work on the Faridabad-Noida-Ghaziabad (FNG) corridor project. The chief engineer has been instructed to visit the project site and take stock of all obstacles in way of the project. The corridor is a part of its Master Plan 2021. 16km stretch of the proposed 56km corridor falls [...] Continue Reading »
