Revenue department
Distracted with legal battles, the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) has lost 108.94 acres out of its 2,750 acres to Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML)?Employees’ House Building Co-operative Society (HBCS) at several villages in north Bangalore. The land was taken for formation of Arkavathy Layout. Now, the civic body has laid claim to 1,200 acres, albeit with [...] Continue Reading »
After having received complaints regarding undue delays in getting khata, plan sanction, violation of zoning regulations and bureaucracy in the BBMP from the builders, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP)has offered builders under CREDAI (Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association- Karnataka), to work with the municipal agency towards a “slum-free city”. The invitation is laid [...] Continue Reading »
Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) aims to collect Rs 1800 crore from property tax, as per new assessment reports of KMC’s revenue department. Presently, the KMC collects Rs 530 crore from property tax. To take the massive leap, the KMC is set to introduce online payment of trade license fees and contractors’ dues. Apart from this, [...] Continue Reading »
Punjab is all set to become the first state in the country to start online registration of property and land records. Pilot projects have been undertaken in two districts. The revenue department will soon implement online registration of property and land and Mohali would be the first district in which this project would be implemented [...] Continue Reading »
The Corporation of Chennai has taken up recent initiative to collect an estimated property tax of Rs. 750 crore in the year 2012-13. While the department is hopeful of this renewed tax efforts, there are key challenges ahead which are yet to be addressed. As for reaching the estimated target of 750 crore, groundwork has [...] Continue Reading »
Given the huge task covering 4 lakh door numbers in the city and issuing tax returns form to all residents, offices and shops concerned, Kochi Corporation may not be able to meet the deadline set by the government, which is August 16. Revenue department officials admit it will not be possible to complete the process [...] Continue Reading »
To gather people’s feedback on local governance and deficiency, the Sheila Dikshit government has decided to hold its largest-ever bhagidari workshop in the capital from June 26. Over 3,500 residents welfare associations have been invited at the event to be held at Talkatora Stadium from June 26 to July 6. The government has asked Asian Centre for Organization [...] Continue Reading »
The anti corruption helpline which was set five years back have broken a record for certain complaints. Every day around 10 to 12 calls are received against all government departments. Amongst all BBMP tops the list. The initiative called Coalition Against Corruption that provides help to complainants against corruption and information under Right to Information [...] Continue Reading »
Lakhs of building constructions in Gandhinagar at Gujarat has been traced as illegal. Now, to stop the spread of illegal constructions the Gujarat government has planned to regularize these buildings which have been constructed without seeking non-agricultural (NA) permission. The high-level ministerial committee members say that they will not be granting land title for such [...] Continue Reading »
Many cities are coming up with land acquisition bill for protecting the rights of the land owners and developing of projects. Jaipur joins the list! The state government is soon going to announce a land acquisition and rehabilitation bill. The revenue department of the state has presented the draft and it has cleared all the [...] Continue Reading »
