BMC Mumbai
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has got around 3,000 responses on the last day of giving suggestions for the existing land use (ELU) maps. With just one day remaining, 3,000 people came out with suggestions and feedback on the deadline day. At least two months of period was given to the citizens to respond to the [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been asked by the Bombay High Court to present details of the illegal structures in a locality in Chembur. These days many illegal structures have been springing in and around Chembur in Mumbai. This case has came into light after a petition was filed by a cooperative housing society alleging that its land has been encroached [...] Continue Reading »
Now that Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has given grace period for the citizens to pay their property tax by March 31, it is not able to collect pending revenue from several central and state government agencies for the past several years. According to a data, BMC has to collect property tax worth Rs 155 crore on central [...] Continue Reading »
The new capital value based tax system which was being objected by the citizens all this while, has been given an extension of two months grace period. The citizens can now pay as per the old rates up to March this year. The residents have to visit the assessor and collector department at the local [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to buy sewage cleaning and processing machines to do away with manual cleaning. The sewer cleaning machines and high capacity suction units will be used to avoid manual contact with garbage. This initiative has been taken by the civic body witnessing several conservancy workers who have to clean the sewer lines manually, due to [...] Continue Reading »
With the increasing protests from the citizens of Maharashtra against new property tax system, a demand for a stay on the regime has now been made to the state government. Recently, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had introduced the new property tax system in the state, following which many protests were witnessed. A MP from North [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) seemed to have juggled up the guidelines to calculate the new property tax system. The property tax under the capital value-based system has missed out on some key factors to compute the same. The civic body has not taken into account several factors like leased and freehold land as well [...] Continue Reading »
With the new property tax system in place, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is yet to frame guidelines to decide on weightages needed for calculation of the tax. For buildings with multiple-age and construction types, deciding on the weightages is one of the crucial parameters for calculation of the tax. A weightage is defined as the capital value [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has planned to give health insurance of up to Rs 3 lakh for those citizens who have paid property tax this year. A whopping property tax of Rs 2,156 crore has been collected this year, contributed by about 15 lakh owners of properties in Mumbai. According to BMC these property tax [...] Continue Reading »
As per data with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), around 81 % of the properties in Mumbai remain unaffected from the recent hike in property tax. With the new capital value-based property tax system in place, the citizens have been unhappy regarding the same and many plan to contest in High Court. However, 81% of [...] Continue Reading »
