NAGPUR: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) may become the first local self government organisation in the state and perhaps in the country to make available online entire records of all its five lakh properties in the city.
"We have initiated the project and a budget provision of Rs 1 crore has been sanctioned," additional deputy municipal commissioner Ajay Ramteke said. Apart from this, the corporation is undertaking GIS mapping of properties and has proposed to set up of ten kiosks for payment of property taxes.
According to Ramteke, the corporation will get all the property records scanned before putting them online. The corporation is still to work on bid documents and the tendering process is likely to begin by next month. The project is expected to be completed within a year.
The project has several advantages both for residents and the civic body. Property owners can now get details regarding the property on a compact disc or can also check them online. This could include all details related to ownership, tax payment, arrears and corporation action against the owner. At present computerisation in the department is limited to tax assessment and billing.
For the municipal corporation maintaining lakhs of documents is a cumbersome task. There is also a possibility of documents getting damaged.
Of about five lakh properties in Nagpur, 70,000 of them are commercial. Several properties are unassessed and last year the corporation initiated a drive to bring all such properties under the tax net. About 40,000 unassessed properties were identified and assessed.
In 2006-07 the Nagpur Municipal Corporation earned Rs 74 crore in property tax—no change over the previous collection. The corporation had estimated Rs 108 crore in property tax but it failed to achieve the target .
"We have initiated the project and a budget provision of Rs 1 crore has been sanctioned," additional deputy municipal commissioner Ajay Ramteke said. Apart from this, the corporation is undertaking GIS mapping of properties and has proposed to set up of ten kiosks for payment of property taxes.
According to Ramteke, the corporation will get all the property records scanned before putting them online. The corporation is still to work on bid documents and the tendering process is likely to begin by next month. The project is expected to be completed within a year.
The project has several advantages both for residents and the civic body. Property owners can now get details regarding the property on a compact disc or can also check them online. This could include all details related to ownership, tax payment, arrears and corporation action against the owner. At present computerisation in the department is limited to tax assessment and billing.
For the municipal corporation maintaining lakhs of documents is a cumbersome task. There is also a possibility of documents getting damaged.
Of about five lakh properties in Nagpur, 70,000 of them are commercial. Several properties are unassessed and last year the corporation initiated a drive to bring all such properties under the tax net. About 40,000 unassessed properties were identified and assessed.
In 2006-07 the Nagpur Municipal Corporation earned Rs 74 crore in property tax—no change over the previous collection. The corporation had estimated Rs 108 crore in property tax but it failed to achieve the target .
Source:Times of India, 9 May, 2007
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