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Waive property tax: Former Mayor
Former Mayor of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Mohammed Majid Hussain on Saturday urged the corporation to provide relief to 11.5 lakh poor and middle class house owners through waiver of property tax up to Rs 5,000 per annum by incorporating the proposal in the corporation\'s budget for 2015-16.
Hyderabad: Former Mayor of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Mohammed Majid Hussain on Saturday urged the corporation to provide relief to 11.5 lakh poor and middle class house owners through waiver of property tax up to Rs 5,000 per annum by incorporating the proposal in the corporation's budget for 2015-16.
In a representation made to the GHMC Special Commissioner, Somesh Kumar, the former Mayor claimed that an ambitious budget for GHMC with total outlay of Rs 4,599 crore for the financial year 2014-15 was presented in February last year. “We had planned to introduce a series of schemes and initiatives during the year by making budgetary provisions. Now, when the budget for GHMC for the financial year 2015-16 is about to be approved, I would like to make few suggestions for incorporation in the budget,” he said.
Majid Hussain recalled that the Standing Committee, at its meeting in November 2014, had passed a unanimous resolution for waiver of property tax for those paying the tax in the bracket of Rs 1 to Rs 4,000 for their residential premises. This was for the first time in the country that a civic body had contemplated such a waiver. The Standing Committee had tentatively noted that 10 lakh house owners would get relief to the extent of Rs 100 to Rs 120 crore. For 11.5 lakh properties, the revenue loss would be Rs 250 crore, he said.
“It may be recalled that the schemes and initiatives envisaged in last year’s budget included construction of 24 function halls for the poor, 1,000 public toilets and urinals for the public, Green Hyderabad plan to develop more colony and city-level parks besides an amusement park at Kishan Bagh, comprehensive development plan for Mir Alam Tank, protection of other lakes and open spaces, etc.,” Majid Hussain said.
Under community organisation schemes, he said the corporation had envisaged to launch subsidised food scheme, training programmes for the unemployed youth and women, school approach improvement, GHMC sports fellowships, and installation of 400 reverse osmosis (RO) plans for provision of safe drinking water in the needy slums and poor localities, and opening of more night shelters.
“However, barring the opening of some food centres, there has been no progress on the other schemes and initiatives, which are still to be launched in the real sense. Hence, I would like to urge you to focus on these schemes and initiatives, which were to be launched in a big way during the current financial year, so that these are operationalised in the next financial year 2015-16,” he demanded.
