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Residents raise a stink over GHMC proposal
The decision of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) to collect user charges for door-to-door garbage is brewing into a new controversy.
Hyderabad: The decision of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (G HMC) to collect user charges for door-to-door garbage is brewing into a new controversy.
Residents associations claim that they have been paying property tax which also includes user charges to collect door-to-door garbage. Of the total property tax, the civic body gets about Rs 1,200 crore as user charges for garbage collection annually.
After the introduction of Swachh auto tippers, the residents are paying another Rs 50 per house for disposition of solid waste. The GHMC staff refuse to collect the garbage if the user charge is not paid. The proposal to impose new and higher user charge is not acceptable to them, T Gayatramma, a resident of Parsigutta told ‘The Hans India’.
P Sai Krishna, a resident of Banjara Hills Road No 12 said that the civic body had been collecting Rs 1,200 crore as property tax which also includes garbage collection. "I do not know whether it is legal or illegal but the Corporation has been collecting the sum of Rs 1,200 crore in form of garbage collection", he said.
According to Section 199(1) of the GHMC Act, the components included in the property tax are general tax, water tax, drainage tax, tax to maintain street lights, and conservation. The civic body, since its inspection, has been conventionally collecting property tax according to the Act.
Levying new user charge is violation of Section 199(1) of the GHMC Act. Section 489 of the GHMC Act (conservancy tax) clearly states that the Corporation Commissioner should not contemplate or levy any amount towards administrative charges for lifting, transporting and dumping the garbage.
In spite of this, civic body’s decision to collect the user charges (Rs 50) for solid waste had created confusion among the residents, N Raghav Rao, an office bearer of one of the residents associations explained.
Reacting to the developments, a senior GHMC official told ‘The Hans India’ that there were several self contradicting sections in the GHMC Act. He pointed out that Section 484 of the GHMC Act allows the Corporation to collect door-to-door garbage tax.
