CPM disses tax notices in English, stages dharna

Eluru: CPM workers staged a dharna at Eluru Municipal Corporation, here on Saturday demanding that the corporation issue all tax notices in Telugu only. They also demanded the corporation officials to stop the yearly-tax system.The workers took out the rally and reached the corporation office in Canal Road on Saturday morning. The burned the English notice copies in front of the office.

Demands revival of half-yearly tax system

The leaders stated that the corporation has issued the property, water tax notices in English, which the poor and uneducated people cannot read. They criticised that on one hand the government made statements that it was implementing Telugu in all departments, whereas the corporation was clinging to English.

CPM city secretary GVL Narasimha Rao mocked that the government’s words were only limited to media, whereas there was no implementation of Telugu. He pointed out that the corporation has issued notices in Telugu until last year and now it has to issue notices in English.

The other leaders P Kishore, Mavuri Srinivas Rao also expressed concern over the English demand notices. They stated that the corporation earlier issued demand notices for half-yearly taxation and now, it has been pressurising the people to pay the yearly-tax in advance. They demanded the corporation to revive the old half-yearly tax payment system immediately.Later, the leaders submitted a memorandum to commissioner Yarra Saye Srikanth.