The existing confusion regarding the house tax policy of the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) is still pending and yet to be resolved by the officials. However, Mayor of Dehradun, Vinod Chamoli had appointed a new committee on Saturday to re-evaluate and re-categorise the local areas for imposing house tax on it.
In a fresh development in the house tax house policies, Mayor had instructed the officials to form a committee of total 10 members, including both the Congress and the BJP councillors of MCD who would mainly be responsible to evaluate and categorise the houses.
The 10-member committee mainly consists of three Congress and seven BJP councillors. Congress members in the committee included leader of Opposition at MCD, Ninu Sehgal, senior Congress councillor, Dr Vijendra Pal Singh and Vinay Kohli. Seven BJP councillors among the committee included senior BJP councilor, Sushil Gupta, Ajay Singhal, Bhupendra Kathait and Amita Singh.
Along with them, two additional Mukhya Nagar Adhikari’s at MCD, Uday Singh Rana and Harshvardhan Mishra and Tax Superintendent, SC Gupta are also appointed in the newly formed committee.
It is noteworthy that Mayor has given a deadline of 15 days for completion of this evaluation task. AMNA, Harshvardhan Mishra informed that after the recent categorisation of the areas which was done into four main categories including A, B, C and D would be re-categorised after the completion of this evaluation process.
However, senior BJP councilor at MCD, Sushil Gupta averred, “We the members of the newly formed committee have already received necessary instructions from the Mayor and would start the evaluation task possibly from Saturday onwards.” He added the members of the committee would be mainly responsible for evaluating each ward of the town. They would be visiting each ward accompanied with the ward representative and would categorise the houses on the basis of total number of rooms of the houses.
He informed that the rental value based house tax policy divided into four A, B, C and D categories based on four categories of rates including Rs 500 per room for category A, Rs 300 per room for B category, Rs 200 per room for C and Rs 50 per room for D category was finalised earlier.
However, Mayor Vinod Chamoli said that the committee formed would first decide the criteria of evaluation and later the re-categorisation of the local areas would be done. He also mentioned the categorisation mainly on local areas are yet to be done.