The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) organized training camps at 200 locations in the national Capital on Saturday and Sunday to provide practical training about the geo-tagging process. In these training camps, citizens were made aware about the need and benefits of geo tagging of their properties. Citizens were trained about the process from downloading the mobile app to geo-tagging the property with photos. Also, citizens were encouraged to geo tag their properties. On this occasion, citizens were also given information about the Sahbhagita  scheme of MCD.

In a press statement, the MCD said in these training camps, citizens were informed that all those property owners, who are not registered on the property tax portal of MCD, will have to register their properties, generate UPIC and thereafter geo-tag their properties.”If property owners fail to register their properties by January 31, 2024, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi will take legal measures to recover tax and also file cases against such defaulters.

 Citizens were informed that MCD has launched a mobile app for geo-tagging of all residential and non-residential properties. Property owners will have to download this mobile app from Play Store or by visiting the website http://mcdonline.nic.in/mcdapp.html. Further citizens were informed that geo-tagging of properties by taxpayers will provide location-wise identification of individual properties and enable better provision of service to citizens by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi,” the MCD said.

According to the MCD,  all the properties under its jurisdiction will be registered with the Tax Assessor and Collector Department by December 31, 2023 and geo-tagging of all the properties will also be done by January 30, 2024.

Along with this, various means of communication  will be used to make property owners aware about the process of geo-tagging.