The Hazaribagh Municipal Corporation board has decided to increase the holding tax by about three times from April 1, 2016. This decision was passed in the boards meeting by majority vote here on Thursday. There are about 19,000 holdings in Hazaribagh.
In the meeting chaired by Mayor Anjali Kumari discussion took place on the proposal, which was pending since long. Finally the members voted in favour and against of this proposal and it was passed. The previous rate of holding tax was fixed in 1994 and since then no change was made in it.
The Executive Officer of the Corporation Ashish Kumar said that we have categorized the holding in three groups. In first group holdings connected with more than 40 feet broad road have been included in second group it is between 20-40 feet and in third group less than 20 feet. The holdings have been divided into commercial and residential units and in cemented roof, asbestos roof and roofs made up of khapra.
The board members also approved the first phase of master plan of the town area. It was decided to provide `30 lakh to each wards for which the councilors will have to submit developmental plans first.
Councilor Prafull Kumar was elected the chairman of accounts committee of the board.
Deputy mayor Annand Dev, engineer Sudarshan Singh and others were also present in this meeting along with all the ward councilors.