Garbage Cess
Many residential and commercial associations are coming forward with promises to clean garbage by having their own solid waste management and scientific disposal system, after the BBMP’s campaign ” Wake up, Clean up Bengaluru” happened earlier this month. The waste from bulk generators in the city will no longer be transported to the landfills. Instead, it will [...] 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 »
The BBMP officials are trying hard to find a solution for the uncleared garbage in the city. A permanent solution needs to be found to manage the estimated 3,500 tonne waste generated in the city. The residents of Mavallipura and Mandur have made it clear that they wont allow Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike to dump anymore [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has submitted a report on the amount spent on garbage disposal, including salaries paid to pourakarmikas. They have spent Rs 25,708 lakhs on salaries of pourakarmikas, health inspectors and vehicles in the last four years, according to BBMP. Last week, the High Court asked BBMP to furnish this information. At [...] Continue Reading »
The BBMP has finally decided to withdraw the three percent garbage cess on the property tax collected from bulk generators in the Palike council meeting. The cess had become a argument between the bulk generators and the civic agency. The high court questioned Palike about the logic behind imposing garbage cess when the bulk generators [...] Continue Reading »
Though BBMP Bangalore has made it mandatory for taxpayers to pay solid waste management cess along with property tax, the cess is based, not on population, but on the size of the house. The Palike, it seems, hasn’t done any ground work to determine the average number of persons staying in a house built on [...] Continue Reading »
Tax payers this year can heave a sigh of relief that the corporation will not be going ahead with the 15% revision, as per the revised Self Assessment Scheme rulebook. From April 1, 2011 BBMP starts collecting property tax for for 2011-12. For property owners, March 31 is last day to pay their property tax [...] Continue Reading »
The BBMP will levy the proposed Garbage Cess or Solid Waste Management (SWM) Cess from April 1. The cess will be levied on residential and non-residential units based on the dimensions of the land on which they stand. The annual cess will be levied on property tax. It has to be paid within the first [...] Continue Reading »
Betterment charges might soon be reintroduced as ‘improvement charges’ at reduced rates. The proposal was approved by the Palike’s tax and finance committee on Tuesday. As per the revised tariff, rates will be Rs 50-60 lesser than what were fixed earlier. These improvement charges will be collected from all converted lands in the outer areas. [...] Continue Reading »
The proposal of charging a cess for garbage will soon be implemented if the proposals of the finance and taxation committee of BBMP are approved.The committee will meet Today (on Tuesday) to discuss this and other issues relating to solid waste management such as review proposals on garbage disposal and the process of initiating tenders [...] Continue Reading »
