Property tax rates in North Delhi are expected to stay the same, with the local civic body planning on rolling back the hike it had cleared earlier this year.
The North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) is likely to pass a resolution at a meeting of the House on Thursday taking back the implementation of the Third Municipal Valuation Committee’s (MVC) report, which had recommended reorganising the categories of properties.
The rejig had led to an increase in the property tax rates for commercial and industrial establishments, as well as for the top categories of colonies.
Municipal elections
Faced with public pressure and next year’s municipal elections, the ruling-BJP in the East Delhi Municipal Corporation on Tuesday rolled back the MVC report it had passed last year.
Sources in the North Corporation said it would follow suit on Thursday.
Pressure from AAP govt?
Leaders of the EDMC had claimed that they had been pressured by the Delhi government to pass the MVC report.
Jitendra Choudhary, chairperson of the EDMC Standing Committee, said that the government had made the implementation of the report a condition for releasing funds to the cash-starved municipal body.
In public interest
On Wednesday, Parvesh Wahi, the chairperson of the Standing Committee of the North Corporation, said: “We will be announcing a measure taken in public interest”.
