Haryana Home and Urban Local Bodies Minister Anil Vij on Wednesday inaugurated the property tax management system claim or objection portal.

 Vij said that this initiative is aimed at eliminating corruption and bring in transparency in the service being rendered by the state.

Elaborating on it further, he said that the presence of unique IDs of the property in various cities will restrict the practice of invalid registries and will further check the corrupt malpractices with regard to area and category of properties.

The Minister said that the State Government aims to digitize the properties of all the cities. A survey of 88 Urban Bodies in this regard is about to be completed.He said that on the spot survey of properties of around 39 lakh families residing in cities of the state have been completed.

Divulging more details, Vij said that in the first phase data of 9.25 lakh properties of 40 cities has been digitized. The online data of these properties is available with geo-tagging along with the name, address, area, mobile number, category, ID number and photograph of the owner. The families residing in these cities will not have to visit the government offices regarding registry of their shops or residential properties, NOC or tax of their properties, instead they can now access this information by entering the area and category of their property as the photographs and description of the properties is available online, he said.

Among other benefits, the residents of these cities will be able to access the nearest landmark along with the photograph, description and drone image of their property as it has been geo-tagged by just clicking on the portal. Henceforth, due to ‘Ekal Sampatti Id’ (Single Asset ID) depositing bills and tax of HUDA, HSIIDC, Electricity and Water Departments along with several other Departments will be simpler in future, he added.

The Minister further said that if any detail regarding the name of the owner, address, area, category of the property is wrongly mentioned on the portal it can be corrected within 30 days by visiting website www.pmsharyana.com free of cost. The suggestions given by the property owners will also be corrected in the record after verification. From the next financial year the notice of property tax will be issued on the basis of this data, he added.