Dear Mr. Vohra ji,
Your commendable and pioneering services being rendered through this blog are highly appreciable and facilitate dissemination of knowledge and information to all societies. From the news items given below, I would like to give the following comments:-
1. Regarding collection of property tax, we had suggested earlier that the office may make out a calendar well in advance for conducting a camp in the premises of each RWA whereat all requisite arrangements will be made for the officials of the Property tax office who could come with 'receipt book' and the Society concerned will arrange to collect all the applications from the residents and hand them over to the officials for doing the needful on the spot. This has worked very well in our Society for the last two years. Here we found only two lacunae or difficulties - 1. for holding a camp in the premises of the societies, we have to virtually beg and visit the office of the Property tax and move heaven and earth right from bottom to top or vice-versa to get a camp fixed. 2. Requisite number of forms are never made available and they make available two or three forms against the requirement of say 500 or so, and for this too we have to beg! These are extremely sorry state of affairs. We need not share any income accruing to them from the collection. On the other hand we could afford to pay any fixed charges for the purpose i.e. for fixing the camp and make available the forms! Will the authorities concerned wake up to this situation? Moreover, through the newspapers they advertise and time and again go on extending the date for payment of property tax beyond the end of June each year! Why they should not impose a penalty for the same so that it supplements their income! In short all law-abiding people are readily willing to pay the tax and before the 'D' day but the authorities concerned are loathe to act.
2. Regarding 'rain water harvesting' we had suggested time and again and right from the inception when the 'storm water drains' were being covered a few years back, not to concretise the base so that the water could seep through the earth or pore/punch holes in the existing ones so that we could achieve the objective. But nothing has been done in this direction. Why so? Can the authorities look into the suggestion for adoption earlier than later? Incidentally, this Society has been pleading with the authorities concerned to clean the storm water drains thoroughly but nothing practically has been done! Why? Only cosmetic or sporadic attempts have been made in this direction with no thorough cleaning!
With best regards and wishes,
TK Balu
Hony.Secretary/RBECHS
Anand Vihar/Delhi-92
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