In order to make property tax payment convenient for the public, the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) has started the online tax payment service for 41 wards now.
As per the information provided by the officials the total property tax collected so far in the year 2018-19 is Rs 2.57 crore out of which Rs 1,18,136 has been collected via the online tax payment service of the MCD in nearly a month. The online property tax service which was started for only 20 wards in the month of May has now been made available for residents of 41 wards.
Adding more in this, the MCD tax superintendent Sonia Pant said, “The plan is to make this service available for all the wards. For now, residents of only 41 wards can submit their property tax using the website but we have a plan to extend the facility to cover all the old 60 wards soon.” It is important to mention here that problems have occurred in the past in the online property tax payment service process. The slow server along with people not being able to find their pending charges along with data of their house tax have been common complaints of the people trying to use the online facility.
When asked about whether the service working smoothly now Pant said, “We faced the problem in the start however it is running smoothly now.
We are collecting a good amount of tax via the online property tax payment service.
We do face small glitches sometimes just like the citizens do but overall the service is working nicely.”
The service, for now, is for the old 60 wards of which only 41 are able to have access to the service. As per the officials, the plan is for all the old 60 wards in the city which will be executed soon. “The plan is for all the 60 wards.
We worked hard to make this facility available to residents of 41 wards and soon it will be are able to access the service. The online service will be soon extended to the residents of the remaining 19 wards soon.”
The wards still unable to access the online property tax payment service are Malsi, Ranjhawala, Dobhawala , DL Road, Clock Tower , Race Course, Dhamawala, Jhanda Mohalla , Dalanwala East, Yamuna Colony, Govindgarh, Vijay Park , Vasant Vihar , Panditwadi, Indiranagar, Dronpuri, Mata Mandir Road, Ajabpur and Nehru Colony.
It should be mentioned here that the State Government has exempted the 40 new wards from taxes for 10 years.