GHMC studies ways to raise revenue

Hyderabad: GHMC Commissioner M Dana Kishore held a review meeting with zonal and deputy commissioners at GHMC head office on Friday, regarding issues related to revenue development in the GHMC, Saaf Hyderabad-Hyderabad-Shandar programme and resolving civil complaints.

Trade activities in residential properties

GHMC Commissioner Dana Kishore said that there are 16 lakh residential properties in these 2.6 lakh properties are paying Rs 1,200 to Rs 1 lakh property taxes to the GHMC. GHMC has to specifically survey all the residential properties of which pays Rs 1,200 to Rs1 lakh to identify commercial buildings and modify the property tax on them.

The Commissioner said that most of these are buildings are used for business and trade programmes and in this case the non-residential buildings should be covered under commercial taxes. GHMC staff will take photos of such buildings and collect the information. According to the GHMC Act 1955 on the basis of this survey, the Deputy Commissioners should give notice to the relevant property owners, zonal and deputy commissioners should review the progress of the survey every day, Commissioner added.

Civil complaints to be resolved soon

The Commissioner ordered immediate resolution of complaints lodged through the MyGHMC mobile app in the city. He said that till date, 67,793 complaints have been filed against various issues, in which 48,371 complaints were resolved and more 11,361 cases are in pending. He also said every day downloads of My GHMC mobile app was specifically designed for better public administration and receiving complaints from the public and now there is the large number of downloads of the My GHMC mobile app by the city public.