90% property tax collection from ULBs despite pandemic
The Hindu
Nine municipalities register 100% tax collection
Municipal corporations and municipalities across Telangana have collected 90% of the property tax on demand from 20-odd lakh dwellings despite the pandemic in the last financial year of 2020-21 ending March this year. The 141 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs), other than GHMC, had collected about ₹495 crore and another ₹226 crore of arrears, making for a total of over ₹720 crore. The precise demand for the 20,24,315 properties has been ₹531 crore with arrears coming to ₹268 crore or a total of about ₹799 crore, said Director of Municipal Administration (DMA) N. Satyanrayana on Monday. While nine, albeit smaller, municipalities, have registered a cent per cent property tax collection, even mopping up the arrears, 99 ULBs collected property tax of 90% of the demand or more.Karnataka to set up charging stations in RTO offices and highways. the State stands at the forefront in India in terms of public EV charging infrastructure, boasting of a staggering 5,059 charging stations, as per data from the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) under the Union Ministry of Power. Bengaluru Urban district leads with 4,281 charging stations, constituting 85% of the total charging infrastructure within Karnataka.
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