Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena on Monday launched Sah-Bhagita - a scheme making Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) partners in optimal tax collection and waste management ecosystem in the national Capital.
According to a statement issued by Raj Niwas, the scheme aims at improving efficiency and compliance in tax collection by incentivizing RWAs. “It suggests that once RWA achieves 90 per cent tax collection from total number of properties in their societies or colonies, it can recommend development work in their areas equivalent to 10 per cent of the tax collection subject to a ceiling of Rs one lakh,” said the officials.
“Additionally, if the colony concerned implements 100 per cent waste segregation at source, compositing of the wet waste and re-cycling of dry waste, there would be an added incentive of 5 per cent of the tax paid,” said the officials.
“This new initiative addresses the long pending rationalization of the property tax structure and also places importance on solid waste management through community participation. This tax policy will bring in consistency and uniformity in different approaches being adopted by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD),” said Saxena.
The LG also has expressed hope that these long awaited initiatives, will bring about the much desired community partnership and ensure that each citizen becomes a stakeholder in the MCD.
“These policy initiatives will ensure better delivery of services to the residents of Delhi and encourage people’s participation in addressing the problem of solid waste management,” said the L-G.