Civic Issues
As Bangalore traffic is increasing, there is need to plan things afresh to adapt the increasing number of vehicles. A signal island will soon come up at KR Circle, as decided by Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) following a plea from Bangalore Traffic Police. The Sheshadri Road, linking Anand Rao Circle and K R Circle, [...] Continue Reading »
Due to a software problem, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation‘s (BMC) plan to send out property tax bills by September has been delayed. The property tax bills are likely to be delivered to citizens in November. The BMC has demanded the software developer to hand over the software by October 15. Once the software is acquired, there [...] Continue Reading »
With the completion of the survey for levying property tax on the basis of Geographic Information System (GIS), the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation is all set to issue special notices. The relocation to GIS is one of the developments under the Jawaharlal National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) on property tax. However, there has been a [...] Continue Reading »
To improve the level of sanitation in Gurgaon, the Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) is considering to procure machines to clean, collect and dump garbage. Till now, the streets are cleaned by workers. However, the civic body aims to replace manual cleaning of roads and to improve efficiency in work. Sources say that a machine [...] Continue Reading »
Before Ganeshotsav, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) was under pressure from mandals and politicians to fill the potholes on roads. After the festival is over, the mandals are facing the heat of the municipal body. Ganesh mandals are being criticized for not filling up the pits that had been dug to erect pandals during Ganeshotsav. BMC [...] Continue Reading »
The nerve center of Chennai, Anna Salai has the maximum number of high-value property tax evaders. Most of the properties in the city corporation fall into the tax defaulters list. About 50 properties of Anna Salai fall under the top 50 tax arrears list and the tax arrears of each of these properties range between [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has claimed that its garbage segregation strategy has met with ‘partial success’ and that there has been a huge demand for wet waste. As reports of segregation failing in many parts of the city appeared in the media, the civic body has put forward the example of Yelahanka zone [...] Continue Reading »
Around 20,000 property owners from the South Delhi colonies like Green Park, Lajpat Nagar and Hauz Khas are to face criminal charges for not paying the property tax. About 1000 notices were sent to property owners by the property tax department of South Delhi Corporation. Around 30,000 properties in three of the four zones of [...] Continue Reading »
Orders were given by the Mayor of Allahabad, Abhilasha Gupta to extend the date of concession in house tax till October 31. The date of filing objection to the house tax was also extended till October 15. The orders were passed after complaints made by people and corporators stating that most of them haven’t got [...] Continue Reading »
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) general body has passed the proposal to implement the new property tax system based on the capital value of properties. The assessment value has been fixed at 0.1 per cent of the capital value. The final report will be submitted to the general body after forming an all party committee [...] Continue Reading »
