Thiruvananthapuram: A backbreaking chore awaits the City Corporation if it intends to complete the procedures for collecting the revised property tax from October. While the State Government has set the deadline for the preparation of the new assessment register as September, which is just two months away, the proceedings are yet to gain momentum in the Corporation.
The local body has divided the Corporation limits into several zones - primary, secondary and tertiary - including the newly added wards, for tax collection. The Council has already accepted the new and revised rates. The next hurdle is to classify the roads. As per the new method, a property by the main road and by the sub-road would mean differential tax for the payer. The Finance Committee will convene a meeting of the Corporation engineers in the coming days to discuss the modality of the classification, Deputy Mayor G Happykumar said.
The Corporations zone classification itself was a delayed process as it is the biggest Corporation in the State with 100 wards. The rest of the procedures would not be easy. We cannot go about in a fast mode since we are the largest Corporation. Besides, procedures have to be complaint-free, Happykumar said. He, however, expressed the hope that the local body would be able to meet the deadline.
Meanwhile, the Corporation has floated tenders for fixing number plates in households. This would be finalised in a few days, after which house-numbering will begin. Once the road survey also
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