Chandigarh
Chandigarh- The issue of imposing property tax on the residential properties in Chandigarh has created a rift between the officials and public representatives due to the pressure from the UT administration and the government. However, this issue has been dragged along as the mayor refused to form the agenda based on the issue regarding the detailed [...] Continue Reading »
Chandigarh- UT administrator Shivraj Patil who had conducted the public hearing has seldom got more people involved in it. There were merely three people attending the redressal of their grievances. Last years hearing had seen four members though. Initially there were four residents who were supposed to take part but due to ill health, one of the members was [...] Continue Reading »
10,000 one-room tenements constructed for the economically weaker sections under the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) in Chandigarh are lying unused and are suffering from a total lack of maintenance. The flats were constructed almost a year back. However, these could not be allotted to the beneficiaries due to the incomplete infrastructure of the [...] Continue Reading »
Chandigarh residents are facing acute water supply crunch. As against a demand of 116 Million Gallons Daily (MGD), the city is presently receiving 90 MGD, which includes 80 MGD from Kajauli water works and another 10 MGD from tube wells. The local Municipal Corporation would supply additional 3 MGD to Military Engineers Services (MES) in [...] Continue Reading »
Real estate continues to remain top option for Indian investors. Capital appreciation, rent and protection from inflation drive real estate investment and citizens go for second property for all these advantages. A recently conducted survey in Delhi/NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Pune, Chandigarh, Kochi, Coimbatore and Jaipur shows that out of 1,430 respondents, [...] Continue Reading »
The parks and green belts of Chandigarh seem to be on its way to be maintained again. The resident welfare associations (RWAs) of Chandigarh have shown interest in the municipal corporation‘s offer to maintain green belts and neighbourhood parks. At present around 1,600 neighbourhood parks lie neglected, with Municipal Corporation expressing its helplessness to maintain [...] 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 federation of sector welfare associations of Chandigarh (FOSWAC), an umbrella body of 60 different resident welfare associations (RWA) have raised concerns regarding negligence of municipal corporation. Concerns were raised in the executive committee meeting for not addressing the common and specific problems of RWA’s seriously by the officials of municipal corporation. The issues included [...] Continue Reading »
The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has finally started the exercise to impose property tax on residential properties in the city. The accounts wing of the corporation has wrote to 25 government departments and organizations besides housing societies to submit details regarding their residential accommodations in the city within a period of one month. The information has been sought from Chandigarh [...] Continue Reading »
The tax on commercial property in Chandigarh may be increased in near future. The issue is to be taken up at the meeting of the House Tax committee to be held in the coming days and the extent of the increase would be decided after a discussion at the meeting. Property tax on commercial property [...] Continue Reading »
