The Ghaziabad Municipal Commissioner is misleading local residents over online house tax payments, claimed some residents who could not succeed in furnishing house tax through online on account of slow or none availability of internet speed.
After failing to furnish the tax online, the residents stood in long queues in scorching heat to avail 20 per cent rebate till the last date of filing the tax on August 31.
According to lalit Kumar of Kavi Nagar, he was regularly reading in local Hindi dailies that the new facility of making online house tax payments for Ghaziabad residents has been provided by the municipal corporation. So he thought of depositing it online prior to expiry date. But his attempt throughout on Tuesday proved futile. “When I entered my house number and other details, the notice on screen reflected 'No Record Found,” he said.
Earlier, the Municipal Commissioner appealed the residents to pay the house tax online. And were told that need not to go the office and that the bills would not be distributed door to door. Residents can track the bill and pay online. However, according to house owners, they went to the Zonal office and found a long queue in scorching heat.
Meanwhile, The Pioneer approached the Mayor of the city Ashu Verma, who said, "We do not hesitate to accept our speed is slow and we need to speed up our internet. Most of the time the server is down due to slow speed," added the Mayor.