*Now, garbage tax-dump on citizens
*Monday August 28 2006 11:37 IST
VIJAYAWADA: Residents of the city will have to pay a monthly garbage tax of
Rs 10 from September onwards. While commercial establishments will pay Rs
20, hotels and restaurants would have to shell out any where between Rs 200
and Rs 2000.
A proposal to levy a monthly tax on the collection and segregation of
garbage has been placed on the agenda and would come up for discussion at
the forthcoming general body meeting of the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation
council meeting, which would be held on August 29.
The newly formed Resident Welfare Associations and the Self Help Groups
would be roped in to collect the tax.
''Collection of garbage tax is one of the many conditions imposed by the
World bank and other lending institutions, funding the Jawarharlal Nehru
National Urban Renewal Mission projects, aiming at total cost recovery of
the amount spent on sanitation in a period of seven years," says CPM floor
leader Ch Babu Rao.
Reiterating the party's opposition to any new tax imposed on the residents,
Babu Rao said that a sizable component of property taxes are already
diverted for maintenance of civic services like upkeep of sanitation,
drinking water and UGD.
The cash strapped VMC hopes to raise at least Rs 6 crore annually under the
new garbage collection system.
There are 2.5 lakh houses in the city and with each of them paying Rs 10, an
annual tax of Rs 3 crore is expected to be collected, while Rs 72 lakh is
expected to be collected from about 30,000 commercial establishments, while
the 2000 hotels and restaurants would pay about Rs 2 crore.
However, the proposal might raise a heated discussion in the ensuing general
body meeting and the CPM says it would oppose the proposal. ''We have been
repeatedly expressing our opposition to the imposition of any conditions on
people," Babu Rao added.
Collection of garbage tax is one of the many conditions imposed by the World
Bank and other lending institutions, funding the JNNURM projects, aiming at
total cost recovery of the amount spent on sanitation.
*Monday August 28 2006 11:37 IST
VIJAYAWADA: Residents of the city will have to pay a monthly garbage tax of
Rs 10 from September onwards. While commercial establishments will pay Rs
20, hotels and restaurants would have to shell out any where between Rs 200
and Rs 2000.
A proposal to levy a monthly tax on the collection and segregation of
garbage has been placed on the agenda and would come up for discussion at
the forthcoming general body meeting of the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation
council meeting, which would be held on August 29.
The newly formed Resident Welfare Associations and the Self Help Groups
would be roped in to collect the tax.
''Collection of garbage tax is one of the many conditions imposed by the
World bank and other lending institutions, funding the Jawarharlal Nehru
National Urban Renewal Mission projects, aiming at total cost recovery of
the amount spent on sanitation in a period of seven years," says CPM floor
leader Ch Babu Rao.
Reiterating the party's opposition to any new tax imposed on the residents,
Babu Rao said that a sizable component of property taxes are already
diverted for maintenance of civic services like upkeep of sanitation,
drinking water and UGD.
The cash strapped VMC hopes to raise at least Rs 6 crore annually under the
new garbage collection system.
There are 2.5 lakh houses in the city and with each of them paying Rs 10, an
annual tax of Rs 3 crore is expected to be collected, while Rs 72 lakh is
expected to be collected from about 30,000 commercial establishments, while
the 2000 hotels and restaurants would pay about Rs 2 crore.
However, the proposal might raise a heated discussion in the ensuing general
body meeting and the CPM says it would oppose the proposal. ''We have been
repeatedly expressing our opposition to the imposition of any conditions on
people," Babu Rao added.
Collection of garbage tax is one of the many conditions imposed by the World
Bank and other lending institutions, funding the JNNURM projects, aiming at
total cost recovery of the amount spent on sanitation.