The East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) proposed three new taxes in the Budget proposal for the year 2021-22 presented by Additional Commissioner Alka Sharma on Wednesday.
The Additional Commissioner proposed a professional tax for those earning more than five lakhs a year will have to pay Rs 100 a month and Rs 200 pm for those earning more than 10 lakhs per month. The civic body has also proposed an education cess at the rate of five per cent of property tax and betterment tax (for enhancement of property value due to public infrastructure development) at the rate of Rs 10 per cent of property tax.
Fifteen trommel machines have already been set-up and others are under the process of pre-installation testing. So far, about three lakh tonnes of garbage has been segregated and processed, Sharma said during budget speech.
She also informed that a technology park is being developed in New Zafarabad by the office of Chief Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, where plasma Pyrolysis plant, MRF shed, gasification unit, 10 TPD zapper machines, an enhancer and office block would be developed.