Civic Issues
As the elections are on top, Delhi government took the agenda to redevelop Chandni Chowk all over again this year. Moving aside the North municipal corporation of Delhi, Chief Minister of Delhi entrusted that the redevelopment work should be given to Government’s Public Works Department (PWD) for better and master development. CM ensured that traffic [...] Continue Reading »
The civic body is planning to select 50 wards in the city for the pilot project where corporators, MLAs, corporate houses, NGOs, technology providers, service providers and residents would take the lead in segregating waste and transporting it to local decentralized waste recycling and processing units and making them zero-garbage areas. The meeting proposed a venture [...] Continue Reading »
BMC has claimed that no new taxes and charges will be included in the BMC budget to be announced for 2013-14 financial year. Also, the civic body is unlikely to announce any new projects or schemes in the next fiscal year. BMC is all set to recover Rs 29,000 crore to Rs 30,000 crore budget [...] Continue Reading »
BMC has admitted that it did not act upon the illegal activities that were going on in a residential building in Sion. In a recent response to a query under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, it came into light that the civic body has not taken any action against an unlicensed residential building in [...] Continue Reading »
Chennai- Many residents of Thoraipakkam and Perungudi protested against the garbage dumping in their villages and demanded the Chennai corporation to stop doing the same. These residents formed a human chain in front of the Perungudi garbage dump yard gate situated at Pallikaranai Marsh. Some residents said that groundwater in this place resembles waste water [...] Continue Reading »
Now, citizens in Pune can breathe a sigh of relief. With increasing complaints from citizens of not receiving property tax bills or getting them too late to avail a 10 percent tax rebate, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has introduced a tool on their website for their ease. Around six lakh properties in Pune come [...] Continue Reading »
With the new property tax system in place, the Property Owners’ Association (POA) has called for a meeting, in which they asked the BMC to reconsider the new tax system. The new capital value-based property tax system has not gone well with the owners/landlords as it does not offer any cap for buildings that got [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi- On a measure to curb tax evasion and ensure 100 percent property tax collection, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation has been planning to start door-to-door collection of property tax. As per the plan, the plot sizes will be measured on the spot through an equipment supplied by the Corporation and calculation of property tax [...] Continue Reading »
Chandigarh- The monthly housing meeting of Chandigarh Municipal Corporation held on January 31, 2013 resulted in elaborated calculation to levy house tax in the city. It proposed imposition of tax as follows- a) For owners having house more 125 sq yd or five marlas or 1360 sq ft area are suppose to pay house tax [...] Continue Reading »
Ahmedabad – The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has extended the time period of rebate scheme of paying property tax till February 21, 2013. Every year AMC launches this scheme during the end of financial year to recover the property tax. Last year this scheme was extended till March 31, 2011. This announcement will relieve those [...] Continue Reading »
