The Hindu 19.11.2009
Property Tax defaulters warned
Staff Reporter
Coimbatore: Corporation Commissioner Anshul Mishra has issued a stern warning to property tax defaulters as they owed the civic body Rs 60 crore (arrears and current year demand).
Mr. Mishra told The Hindu that property tax revenue was very important to ensure infrastructure and basic amenities.
He highlighted the need for a culture of compliance and no tolerance towards defaulters. The civic body had only been able to collect 34 per cent of the arrears and current year demand.
It planned to reach the 70 per cent mark by December and more than 98 per cent by March.
Mr. Mishra appealed to the public to remit their taxes promptly otherwise the civic body would resort to penal and punitive measures such as legal action and disconnection of water supply.
The civic body had already prepared a list of those who had defaulted for the last three years in succession and also those who had bulk connections, including apartments and establishments, with arrears exceeding Rs. 50,000.
In the case of establishments, commercial and corporate houses, the civic body was planning to resort to disconnection of water supply with immediate effect.
In the case of apartments, failure on the part of individual residents in apartments, the civic body was serving notices and failure to pay would ultimately result in disconnection.
Co-residents needed to ensure that defaulters remitted the money to the civic body. The officials would start disconnection of water supply immediately.
Isolation ward
Corporation had decided to establish an exclusive ten-bed isolation ward at Jaishimapuram Corporation Hospital in Ward No 19 of Pappanaickenpalayam area for A(H1N1) flu patients.
The hospital would have ten urban health nurses and two doctors on deputation from Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH).
