
Coimbatore Corporation collects ₹ 115.59 crore in property tax
The Hindu
Tax collection percentage stands at 91%; highest tax payment was in North Zone
For the 2020-21 financial year, when people were indoors because of the COVID-19 lockdown and election work took over towards the year-end, the Coimbatore Corporation had managed to collect 91% of the property tax demand. Sources in the Corporation said of the ₹ 171.25 crore to be collected, the Corporation had collected ₹ 115.59 crore. In the year before the last financial year (2019-2020) too the civic body had registered a similar tax collection percentage – 91. As in 2019-20 FY, last year too, more assessees in the 20 wards in North Zone had paid the tax than their counterparts in the other four zones – 97%. In 2019-20, 95% tax payers had paid their taxes.
In , the grape capital of India and host of the Simhastha Kumbh Mela every 12 years, environmental concerns over a plan to cut 1,800 trees for the proposed Sadhugram project in the historic Tapovan area have sharpened political fault lines ahead of local body elections. The issue has pitted both Sena factions against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which leads the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra. While Eknath Shinde, Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief, and Uddhav Thackeray, chief of the Shiv Sena (UBT), remain political rivals, their parties have found rare common ground in Tapovan, where authorities propose clearing trees across 34 acres to build Sadhugram and a MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) hub, as part of a ₹300-crore infrastructure push linked to the pilgrimage.












