MCD May Also Revise Property Tax Upwards

The Delhi government's decision to increase circle rates of land and immovable properties in all circles may prompt the MCD to revise its property tax rates upwards.

Experts feel that as the circle rates have been increased by up to 200% in some areas, property tax will be revised by around 100% in these areas. In places where circle rates increase is not steep, the revision in the property tax could be lower.

In Delhi, property tax is fixed on the unit area basis. As the property prices are high in posh areas which are kept in the higher categories the circle rates are fixed at a higher rate. Similarly, the property tax rates in those areas are also pegged at higher levels.

Now, as the government has revised the circle rates upwards, MCD will use it to revise the property tax. Before the introduction of unit area method for calculation of property tax, the tax used to be levied on the basis of the value of the property. But, it led to lot of litigations. To remove the ambiguity and to introduce uniformity, the government introduced the unit area method. Under this, the property tax is calculated on the basis of prescribed unit area rate by the MCD.

In fact, Delhi government has already appointed a committee to revise the rates. The municipal valuation committee is likely to give the report by the end of this month. Experts feel that the revised circle rates will help the committee to prepare a report suggesting a rate hike. Any upward revision of the circle rates, will lead to huge jump in the MCD's revenue.


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Delhi Hikes Circle Rates In Bid To Curb Black Money, Commercial Circle Rates Up 3-4 Times

The black money component in property transactions is set to dip. In a decision aimed at boosting the state government's dwindling revenue base, Delhi's cabinet on Monday raised the circle rates for valuation of land and immovable properties for charging stamp duty by up to 190.7%.Circle rates are the minimum rates at which land and property can be sold and bought in Delhi. The system was introduced in 2007.

 

 

The new rates will range from Rs 9,000 to Rs 1.25 lakh per sq metre, against the existing Rs 6,900 per sqm to Rs 43,000 per sqm. Under the existing system, Delhi was divided into eight categories `A' to `H' derived from the unit area property tax system of MCD. The old categorization has now been removed and colonies reclassified in 10 circles on the basis of assessed land costs in different localities. 

As far as commercial and industrial transactions go the hike is much higher. It is three times of each slab in case of commercial and 2.5 times of incase of industrial. Also residential rates will apply to properties located on mixed land use streets.

 

Revenue minister Raj Kumar Chauhan said the new slabs of Rs 1.25 lakh and Rs 1 lakh seem like a big jump from the previous top slab of Rs 43,000 but given the actual market rate of properties in colonies under these slabs, the circle rate is not much. According to estimates, transactions in these areas are barely 5% of all the transactions in the city as the prices are steep and run into crores.

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Water crisis over, for now

Delhi's water crisis due to an agitation by Jats in Muradnagar in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh ended on Monday, when the community called off the agitation, after officials from the Ministry of Social Justice reportedly agreed to listen to their demand of OBC reservations in central jobs.

Water supply to Delhi Jal Board's (DJB) two water treatment plants (WTPs) — Sonia Vihar in south Delhi and Bhagirathi in east Delhi — was restored on Monday afternoon after a delegation of the Jat community met Ministry officials in Delhi.

"Ministry officials assured us that our demands would be closely monitored every week and would also be forwarded to the Prime Minister's office," Jat Arakshan Sangharsh Samiti president Yash Pal Singh Malik told HT from Muradnagar.

Hours later, DJB CEO Ramesh Negi told reporters in Delhi, "We are trying our best to restore water supply by tonight and are hopeful of normalising the situation by Tuesday morning," said DJB CEO Ramesh Negi.

The disruption in water supply to the Sonia Vihar and Bhagirathi WTPs led to a shortfall of 240-250 MGD (million gallons per day), approximately 35 per cent of total daily supply. 

"The whole of east Delhi and large portions of south Delhi did not get any water today. 

These areas are served by Sonia Vihar and Bhagirathi WTPs," Negi said. 

East Delhi was the worst affected. Said B S Vohra, secretary of Krishna Nagar RWA, "There has been no water supply even till late Monday evening. The DJB should have supplied water through tankers on its own." 

Till late Monday evening, Delhiites had no respite. Said Ram Gupta, general secretary, Priyadarshini Vihar RWA in south Delhi, "There has not been a single drop of water since morning. DJB officials are not even giving us a satisfactory reply."

Earlier in the morning, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said, "Our officials, including the Chief Secretary, have been holding talks with Uttar Pradesh officials and have also taken up the issue with the Union Cabinet Secretary and the ministries of Home Affairs, Water Resources and Social Justice."

However, the respite may be temporary, with Jat leaders threatening to disrupt the Commonwealth Games if their demands were not met with concrete results before July 10. 

"We will block water supply, oil and gas supplies from Mathura and Panipat and transmission grids during the Games, if the Centre fails to assure us OBC status," said Yash Pal Singh Malik, Jat Arakshhan Sangharsh Samiti president.

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Please come forward to raise your voice

Dear RWA friends,

This blog is a common platform for all of us to open up to share any civic problems, to raise the voice on any issues concerning  residents, to opine on various policy matters being imposed by various authorities. Please feel free to upload alongwith pics & vids on this blog.

Looking forward for an active participation from various RWA's of Delhi.

With best regards.

B S Vohra
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Launching very soon : Online directory of RWA's

Dear RWA friends,

If you have not yet mailed us the details of your RWA alongwith your present contact details of you as well other office bearers, please do so now, at the earliest. Cut off date for this launch is 30th June, 2010.

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B S Vohra
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MULTI - STORIED FLATS VS. INFRASTRUCTURE

There are 253 plots in our colony,  Priyadarshini Vihar (near Laxmi Nagar). The infrastructure - water lines, electricity cables, sewers, rain water drains and roads - was developed keeping in mind the requirements of the 253 families.  Of late, the properties are being purchased at exorbitant price by the builders, who convert these single family units into multi-storied flats and sell them.Construction of such flats is rapidly growing in our colony and I understand in many other colonies throughout Delhi.  It is resulting in frequent burning of electric cables due to over-loading; very little or no water at the end of the colony; choked sewers; no parking space, etc.

Yesterday (13 June), there was no light in B-Block of our colony for over 15 hours due to burning of a cable due to overloading. Everyone in the colony, including the ones who have purchased newly constructed flats, is suffering due to no power, no water, no parking space,over-crowded lanes, and choked sewers.

The Government seems to have closed its eyes and ears and have no time to look at the woes of the public.

The MCD should not approve the building plans of these flats, until such time that the infrastructure is augmented to meet the demands of fast increasing population of the colony.Moreover, the building bylaws are being openly flouted un-checked, in connivance with the officials of the MCD.

JAGO MCD JAGO....... JAGO DELHI GOVERNMENT JAGO

Ram Gupta
General Secretary
Priyadarshini Vihar RWA
Delhi 110 092

Gurgaon : Residents protest hike in charges

Residents of Sushant Lok staged a protest on Saturday against the hike in the maintenance charges — from Rs 1.00 per sq yard per month to Rs 2.50 per sq yard — by the maintenance agency.

The hike means that a plot/house owner, who had been paying Rs 3,156 as annual maintenance charges for his 263 sq yard plot, will now have to pay Rs 7,890 for one year.

Effective from April 1, the new charges have thus attracted the ire of the residents. The resident body, representing about 5,000 families, has also claimed that services such as security, sanitation and street lighting had been deliberately reduced by the maintenance company.

The maintenance agency, Pro Facilities Services, has denied of having compromised on quality of the maintenance services. In individual circulars sent to plot and house owners, the company cited steep increase in the input cost as a reason behind the raise in the maintenance charges. 

“The rates of maintenance and other charges as per the Supreme Court ruling of 2004 were Re 1.00 per sq. yd per month. As per the same ruling, these charges were to be revised in January 2005 in consultation with the RWA, who always refused to meet us.

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Re-Categorization just for Metro Station ?

All the reasionings falls flat to read such useless and un-thinknablen  far from the valuable positiove and pricital thinking. All such persons, who come out with such ideas may first be treated for "SICK MINDs"  as just siting in AC offices and collecting their shares in the evening shall never think from the point of view of PUBLIC, STATE OR NATION.

Our Govt. may please keep such matters under check by the honest and faithful higher offices, who have positive thinking for the Public and Nation, So that the Public should not become upset to read/ know such  sickness of suggestions to change the laws.

Jeet Kumar
Pocket-3,Mayur Vihar-1,
former Secretary RAW

PROPOSED RE-CATETGORIZATION OF RESIDENTIAL COLONIES

I would request all the citizens to join hands and stand for our rights and get the MCD to act on our amenities first.

Alka Gupta
Vivek Vihar

PROPOSED RE-CATETGORIZATION OF RESIDENTIAL COLONIES

Apropose of the suggestion of the Municipal Valuation Committee (Hindustan Times 12 June 2010), the residential colonies lying within half a kilometre of the Metro line would come under Category A, the highest slab for calculation of property tax.  In some cases, the property tax will go up 4-5 times.   It is very unfortunate that hardly 30-40 per cent of the registered properties in Delhi pay property tax.  Instead of bringing the non-paying properties in to the tax net, the MCD is penalising the honest citizens who are paying taxes regularly. 

 

Moreover,  why should the metro alone be a criteria for re-catetorization of colonies; bad roads, clogged drains, blocked sewers, erratic power supply, insufficient and dirty water supply, overlowing dhalos, and most importantly the day-by-day deteriorating law and order situation in colonies should also be considered.  MCD, please change your most corrupt system rather than penalising the public every time.

 

Ram Gupta

General Secretary

Priyadarshini Vihar RWA

Delhi - 110 092

Live near Metro line ? Prepare to pay more tax.

Delhi's Metro has raised the value of real estate all along its route. Now the gov- ernment wants a share of the pie. It has proposed higher taxes for properties close to Metro lines from next year.

 

The Municipal Valuation Committee (MVC) constituted by the Delhi government to review property tax in the city has decided to re-categorise residential colonies.

Currently, areas under the jurisdiction of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) are divided into categories A to H, with upmarket areas like New Friends Colony, Vasant Vihar, Shanti Niketan in catergory A.

Now the MVC wants resi- dential colonies falling within half-a-kilometre on either side of a Metro line to be upgraded to A category, since these areas have also seen the most infra- structure development.

Most of the colonies in the city will also be upgraded by at least one level.

This change will result in a huge jump in property tax paid by owners. For instance, for a 200 square yard (170 sq m) prop- erty in Lajpat Nagar, along which the Metro will run, the current property tax is Rs 2,100. After reclassification from C to A, the tax will go up to Rs 10,000 -- almost a five-time jump.

So far, there are 28 catego- ry A colonies in Delhi. The MVC wants to raise that number to 100. Many areas in East Delhi, South Delhi and West Delhi have become easily accessible because of the Metro, leading to overall development in infra- structure and other facilities too in these places. "This has to be reflected in property tax too," said a senior official. The MVC's final report is ready and will be handed over to the MCD to implement. The civic agency hopes to earn an additional Rs 400 crore per year thereby.

This will be the second time property tax will increase in Delhi. The last hike was in January this year. 

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