DDA takes steps for speedy conversion of property
Saturday, 11 October 2014 06:57
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The Hindu 11.10.2014
DDA takes steps for speedy conversion of property
The Delhi Development Authority has been taking various
steps in order to ensure speedy disposal of conversion of property from
leasehold to freehold since February this year. The
steps in this direction include setting up of Nagrik Suvidha Kendras and
monitoring online disposal of conversion applications. The
DDA has opened Nagrik Suvidha Kendras in four zones of Delhi. These
centres were conceptualised in February and by the first week of June,
four of them were opened at Dwarka, Rohini, Laxmi Nagar and Vikas Sadan. On
completion of 100 days of these centres, the DDA said they have been
working to the utmost satisfaction of the public and the disposal rate
has been very high as compared to earlier manual disposals. Around 3,800
applications for conversion were received during these 100 days and
2,000 conveyance deeds have been issued within the stipulated period
fixed under the Citizen Charter for disposal. Besides,
special camps were organised in the Suvidha Kendras and more than 6,000
pending applications of conversion were also disposed leaving hardly
any case pending beyond 45 days, i.e., the time period given in the
Citizen Charter for disposal. “At the Suvidha
Kendras, apart from conversion, mutation, mortgage permission, extension
of time in construction are also being expedited. Applicants on a visit
to Nagrik Suvidha Kendras are provided self-generated tokens and the
applicants are directed to designated counters where application is
scrutinised on the spot, challan generated and all formalities
completed. The advantage of these Kendras is that applications both
online and offline are received. The pendency officer-wise is
periodically generated to assess the disposal rate,” DDA Vice-Chairman
Balvinder Kumar said. Mr. Kumar has been personally monitoring the pendency. The
conversion form has also been simplified and the number of documents
required to be submitted by the applicant have been reduced to
facilitate conversion with ease and speed. Previously,
many conversion applications were pending for want of sanctioned
building plan or for want of NOC. All these requirements have been done
away with subject to certain conditions as notified from time to time. The DDA has opened Nagrik Suvidha Kendras at Dwarka, Rohini, Laxmi Nagar and Vikas Sadan
NMC links BCC with property tax to boost revenue
Thursday, 09 October 2014 11:55
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The Times of India 09.10.2014 NMC links BCC with property tax to boost revenue NASHIK:
After linking property tax with the Building Completion Certificate
(BCC), the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has added 1,790 new
property-holders to the list of the property tax payers in the first
half (April 1 to September 30) of the 2014-15 financial year.
With an aim to increase the revenue through property tax, the civic
administration has taken some measures for the purpose. As part of this,
the NMC connected both the town planning and the property tax
departments to share information of BCC last year. Accordingly, the town
planning department immediately informed the property tax department to
give BCC to any building in the municipal limit. As a result, the
municipal corporation has added new property holders on its list of
property tax payers at large.
Speaking to TOI, "As per the
norms, the property-holders have to pay property tax once they get the
BCC from the town planning department of NMC. Hence, we have linked the
BCC with the property tax from the current financial year. This has
helped us charge the property tax from the newly constructed buildings
once we get information of BCC from the town planning department. In the
first half of 2014-15, we added 1,790 properties to the property tax
list."
By March 31, there were 1.79 lakh properties on the
property tax list. With the new addition of 1,790 properties in the
first half of the current financial year, the total number of properties
has reached 3,80,790. This included 73,183 properties in Nashik East,
35,645 in Nashik West, 77,999 in Panchavati, 66,446 in Nashik Road,
40,530 in Satpur, 86,987 properties in the Cidco division of the
municipal corporation.
The NMC has set property tax collection
target of Rs 110 crore for the current fiscal year and collected Rs 36
crore in the first half of the current financial year. Last financial
year (2013-14), the NMC had collected property tax of Rs 71.74 crore.
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SMC not to levy entry fee at gardens
Tuesday, 07 October 2014 12:22
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The Times of India 07.10.2014 SMC not to levy entry fee at gardens SURAT:
The BJP-ruled Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) has rejected a proposal
that advocated levying of entry fee on people visiting municipal
gardens set up for public recreation in the city. It also deferred a
decision on increasing the tree plantation charges collected from
developers.
"The gardens are used by a number of people. Entry
fee would keep people away from coming to the gardens. These gardens
were built for them. How can we charge entry fee from people?" SMC
standing committee chairman Nirav Shah asked while announcing the
rejection of the proposal after a discussion here on Saturday.
The SMC would now try to generate extra income by creating more food
courts and selling advertisement rights in the city. The proposal was
moved by the administrative wing of the municipal corporation. It wanted
the civic body to charge fee for entry of people to Gandhi Baug,
Jyotindra Dave Udyan, Chowpathy, Floral Garden, Lakeview Garden and, Dr
Shymaparasad Mukherjee Lake Garden. At least one lakh people visit these
gardens every month. SMC officials argued that levy of entry fee would
help the civic body raise around Rs 90 lakh per annum from the visitors.
They said the SMC already charged people for entry to Ugat Botanical
Garden and Navin Florin Garden and that it should be made applicable for
other gardens too.
However, the BJP corporators were against
the proposal. On tree plantation charge, the standing committee
postponed the decision until Diwali.
RMC’s tax collection crosses 60L mark in 20 days
Tuesday, 07 October 2014 12:20
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The Times of India 07.10.2014 RMC’s tax collection crosses 60L mark in 20 days RANCHI
: The outsourcing of tax collection has proved to be a major
achievement for the Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC), turning around
its fortunes.
Sparrow Softech, the company which has been
outsourced the work of tax collection in urban Ranchi has collected Rs
65 lakh in 20 working days flat. This far exceeds the amount of tax
collected by RMC in the three months prior to outsourcing.
An
official of Sparrow Softech said the field work started on August 26 and
in the next 20 days, more than Rs 65 lakh has been collected.
The official added, "While most people are quite supportive, there are
some who are reluctant to pay our field officers as they are new and not
everybody knows them. However, we are hoping that things will be
smoother in a matter of two-three months."
The annual tax
collected by RMC before the work was outsourced was around rupees six
crore to rupees seven crore. But after outsourcing, the amount collected
is expected to go up to Rs 40 crore annually.
Deputy mayor
Sanjiv Vijayavargiya said, "The tax collected in such a small time is
five times more than the collection done by the corporation in the same
duration. We are expecting that the annual collection will go upto Rs 40
crore."
Vijayavargiya said in the next six months the tax collection is expected to improve as people will adapt to the new system.
He said, "People have responded well to the new system as they can sit
at home and pay taxes. Some are yet to come around. As they become
familiar with the system, all problems will be solved."
The
public response has been overwhelming with many people appreciating the
step. Arvind Mishra, a resident of Patel Compound said, "For the last
two years, the tax collectors of RMC had stopped coming to collect the
taxes and it was not possible for us to run to RMC every time to pay
taxes. I am glad that they outsourced tax collection on time and now
they are coming home to collect the taxes."
Soon after RMC had
outsourced the work of tax collection to Sparrow Softech Pvt Ltd, the
company started the work of getting assessment forms filled and
collecting taxes. However, lack of proper backlog of tax collection with
RMC was creating problems both for the company as well as the citizens.
Rakesh Ranjan, a resident of Kishorgunj had to face trouble as
the field executive appointed by the company was adamant to collect the
holding tax for year 2013-14 which was already paid. He had said, "The
tax collector said he doesn't have the record of my tax having been
paid. I had to finally show him the receipt of payment from RMC only
then did he leave."
Similarly, Amit Kumar of Harmu Housing
colony had to pay the tax for 2013-14 as he had misplaced the receipt.
Later when he complained at RMC, then only his money was returned.
The vice chairman of Sparrow Softech, Deepankar Kumar had then said
there are some problems but they are working to smooth them out.
Kumar had said, "Earlier, RMC used to do manual collection and they had
an internal system where they had to update the collections. But this
was not done as a result of which the data of tax collection we got from
RMC was not updated. We have spoken to RMC and they are updating the
data from the receipts available."
The tax collected in such a
small time is five times more than the collection done by the
corporation in the same duration. We are expecting that the annual
collection will go upto Rs 40 crore
Sanjiv Vijayavargiya | RMC DEPUTY MAYOR
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