Secunderabad: In a big step, Secunderabad Cantonment Board officials (SCB) will collect property taxes in buildings on the canton of the browser and land defense within the canon.
On Wednesday, a resolution was ratified in a board meeting held under the leadership of the president of the Cantonment Agency, Brigadier Abhijit Chandra.
Chief Executive Officer B Ajit Reddy at the Board Meeting, told the media: “The decision to collect taxes on regular property lines has been taken to increase our income.
In fact, the Pantonment Board spends crores from rupees for basic facilities such as water, sanitation and street lights for people who live in strip and land defense, but have not received one rupee as income from them for decades.
“” Assessment of the properties of encroachment will be carried out, “an official release issued by the CEO SCB here, said .
According to the official SCB record, there are 10,000 properties built on land that violates the limit within the Cantonese.
Rasoolpura is one of the largest regions with a large number of properties built in land encroachment, followed by Mudefort, Bowenpally and Trimulryry.
In 2018, based on the command of the Supreme Court, SCB officials removed more than 28,000 voter names from the registration list.
SC in his assessment in September 2016 has stated that those who penetrate the land of defense will not have the right to vote in SCB polls.
Although allotment of the house number for nearly 10,000 properties was taken by the Cantonment board, stopped after the Supreme Court assessment.
“The house number is mandatory to assess property taxes to this property and publish request notifications,” said an official in the SCB tax wing.
Meanwhile, the council also issued a resolution to distribute empty open Cantonese land located between the Jubilee Bus Station (JBS) and Park Piket for parking.
“Rental rights for temporary use of land for salary and park facilities in JBS has been allocated for private companies based on open auctions,” said CEO Ajith Reddy to Ti.
Apart from these resolutions, the Board has considered and approved the rights of toll tax collection for 2021-22 years, and also public work, sanctions development plans, and GLR mutations as well.