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The Bidhannagar (Salt Lake) municipality has collected Rs 80, 81,000 as property tax and started sending bills to all the residents. Around 1,696 owners have paid property tax accounted to Rs 80,81,000 till the last day of October. According to the municipality chairman Ashesh Mukherjee, the municipality is expecting to collect Rs 9 crore as [...] Continue Reading »
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is set to introduce a new system for property tax payment which is believed to ease out the method of tax-paying and generate more revenue to the government. The new method denies visits of corporation inspectors as they are presently doing. The tax-payers will have to make a self-assessment of [...] Continue Reading »
Two laborers were killed and two seriously injured after a portion of a four-storey building at Rashbehari Avenue in south Kolkata collapsed. The Kolkata Municipality has informed that the portion that collapsed was constructed illegally. The Municipality also said that the owner of that property in Kolkata has extended the original single-storey building into a [...] Continue Reading »
Cellphone towers have been all around in the Kolkata city and to top it all, some of them are illegal! Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has not taken any care in recent times about the health hazards due to electromagnetic radiation emitted by the towers and also illegal building rules and loss of finance due to [...] Continue Reading »
The Concast group from Kolkata will be launching their establishments in real estate and hospitality business soon! The Concast group will be developing luxury apartments and five-star boutique hotel at a two-acre plot off Eastern Bypass, eastern Kolkata. The possession towards establishing this project is already in the pipeline. Recently the group purchased two-acre land [...] Continue Reading »
Kolkata is soon going to sight a new look of its garbage disposal system. In coming March, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has promised no overflowing of garbage from the bins. The civic body has taken initiative of replacing the earlier larger vessels into smaller movable compactors. These improved bins will be bought by Kolkata Environment [...] Continue Reading »
Salt lake residents have a reason to make merry! The residents were earlier worried over Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) of not providing the property tax waiver scheme for the ward. However, the state government has been working on the scheme and very soon will be launched for the Bidhannagar Municipality. The scheme has not been [...] Continue Reading »
A sign of relief for property tax payers within a month. Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has finalised the much awaited property tax waiver scheme to be on February 1, 2012. The civic body has worked day and night to prepare the list of big tax defaulters of the city. A target of around Rs 500 [...] Continue Reading »
After a wait of four months, WB Governor has finally given a consent to the KMC (Amendment) Bill, 2011. The bill hold special interests for KMC and also speaks for waiving property tax for defaulters. The Governor instead of giving his consent for the bill, wanted to know what steps KMC had been taking against [...] Continue Reading »
No more land mafia dealings in concern with government land. Yes, it has been decided that the sale of any government land from now onwards will have to pass the cabinet clearance. Kolkata mayor says that the norm will not be applicable to Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) as it is a local self government. Meanwhile, West [...] Continue Reading »
