Municipality
BESCOM will help the BBMP to identify all the properties in Bangalore, which will help BBMP to find out all the property tax defaulters in the city. The BBMP will collect data available with BESCOM, based on electricity meter connections. BBMP has estimated that there are more than 22,000 apartment buildings in Bangalore with more [...] Continue Reading »
Punjab and Haryana high court has ordered to stop all construction work for projects in Mohali, mainly in the Patiala Ki Rao area. This order has stopped all construction activity in the Nada, Nayagaon, Karoran village. The High Court has also directed the district administration Mohali to submit a status report about illegal construction made [...] Continue Reading »
Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has identified sources from where it is losing revenue. In a survey to reassess buildings in tech parks for property tax at Mahadevapura revealed that the Palike has been cheated of crores by commercial and IT buildings, which do not pay tax according to the law. BBMP found that 10 [...] Continue Reading »
The revenue department of Delhi is going to introduce electronic registration system of sale deeds of properties in Delhi. The municipality will start this electronic system of registration from the Mehrauli sub-registrar office in south Delhi, which covers a large part of south Delhi. Buyers of properties will now be able to take online appointment [...] Continue Reading »
Department of Local Bodies in Chandigarh has proposed to charge 10% power bill as property tax for the property owners in urban areas of the state. The government has planned to calculate the amount of property tax based on the power consumption by the owner, not be based on the size of the property. The [...] Continue Reading »
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has planned to fast track the re-valuation and assessment work of properties in Nagpur for tax purposes pending for last many years. This delay is causing lot of inconvenience to the citizens and also losses to NMC. The department is waiting to finalize the decision on property tax based on [...] Continue Reading »
BESCOM customers will be able to send SMS to 53030 mentioning BESCOM in the message to register their complaints from June 1st 2012. Recently BESCOM also launched 25 line helpline in order to address the complaints and will have the capacity to process over 1 lakh complaints. According to BESCOM Official this facility will reduce [...] Continue Reading »
The property tax department of Pune has started a short message service (SMS) that will inform citizens about their tax dues on their properties at Pune. The municipal commission has declared that those who wish to get details of their dues by text messages should type NI, followed by their property number, and send it [...] Continue Reading »
High growth of real estate projects in Bangalore leads to the water crisis of the city. Many newly developed areas in Bangalore, which were outskirts some years ago, are experiencing sharpe rise of apartment constructions. When the construction of any project started, the bore wells are dug at the same time as corporation water supply [...] Continue Reading »
The Mysore City Corporation is planning to celebrate its 150th anniversary on July 24. A consultative committee is constituted to draft plans for celebrating the event in a grand manner. A sum of Rs 50 lakh has been set aside for the celebrations. The old town of Mysore of the early 19th century comprised Old [...] Continue Reading »
