The CPI on Tuesday staged a protest against the Coimbatore Corporation for undertaking the exercise to reassess tax properties.
CPI district secretary V.M. Sundaram, and former MLA M. Arumugham later presented a petition to the corporation officers.
The party said in a release that it was unacceptable that the corporation was asking owners of reassessed properties to cough up tax for 13 half years.
The move appeared to be an exercise aimed at property tax revision, which, if attempted, was unwarranted as it would come at a time when there were no elected representatives in the council.
The corporation should not attempt to either levy new tax or revise the tax. In the present circumstances it would only lead to more corruption.
The party condemned the corporation for demanding underground drainage connection deposit from residents who submitted applications for building plan approval.
The party urged the corporation to resume playing Tamil song in electric crematoriums, and appoint the next CEO for the Coimbatore Smart City Limited by adopting a transparent process.
MLA convenes meeting
A meeting of residents of the city, convened by N. Karthik, MLA, has urged the Coimbatore Corporation to reconsider the property tax reassessment exercise.
A resolution passed at the meeting said that at a time when the corporation was supplying water only once in 15 - 30 days, and was unable to streamline garbage collection or drainage cleaning or control the spread of dengue, it did not augur well for the civic body to revise property tax.
In several parts of the city, roads damaged during the execution of the underground drainage work have not been repaired.
At the meeting, residents from across the city spoke about poor street light maintenance, inadequate water supply, difficulty in accessing corporation officials, and getting town survey land record or other documents.
If the corporation administration did not improve civic governance, the residents would be forced to stage a protest, he added.
