Over 23.50 lakh new properties have been identified in urban areas of Haryana for payment of payment tax after creation of a property ID (identification) through  mapping and survey.
With this, the number of properties which are required to pay property tax has gone up to 42.70 lakh.

Addressing a Press conference,  Haryana urban local bodies minister Kamal Gupta said out of these 42.70 lakh properties, property ID (identification) of about 33 lakh has been made.
He said earlier only 25 per cent people used to deposit property tax, but with the creation of property ID through after mapping and surveying,  all people would pay property tax to the urban local bodies department and this would increase the revenue of the local bodies.
The minister said property owners or occupiers should take full advantage of the scheme by depositing all due property tax before 31 December 2022, under the House Tax Interest Waiver Scheme implemented by the government in urban areas. Under this scheme, complete interest is being waived on the outstanding house tax amount, he added.
Gupta said after the survey more than 23.50 lakh new properties were identified, out of which 1.98 lakh objections were registered. Out of these one lakh objections were resolved and 60,000 objections were cancelled and 30,000 are pending.
He said now officers below the rank of District Municipal Commissioner have been given the powers to remove these objections so that they can be resolved quickly.
The minister said the government has decided to mark the parking areas at crowded places in the cities, which is showing positive results. Due to this, people going to urban areas are parking their vehicles at designated places only.
He said marking will be done at designated places for parking of vehicles at public places like government offices, banks, schools etc. He said that in 11 cities including Gurugram, Faridabad, Yamunanagar, Panipat, Karnal, Rohtak, Hisar, Panchkula, Sonipat, Manesar and Ambala, a target has been set to create marking places for parking 1.20 one lakh two-wheelers and four-wheelers.
Gupta said under the Mukhyamantri Shehri Nikaya Swamitva Yojna, 7077 applications were received for giving ownership rights to tenants of houses and shops in urban areas residing there for more than 20 years. Out of these, ownership rights have been given to 1761 and 1304 applications have been cancelled and action is being taken on 4012 applications.
He said that a self-advertisement policy is being implemented in urban areas under the e-auction process. Under this, 342 locations have been selected so far, out of which 197 locations have been e-auctioned and an annual income of Rs 5.92 crore has been generated. This income is being spent on development works in the bodies.
Gupta said that the process of regularising illegal colonies developed in different cities of the state is going on. During the survey, 2237 illegal colonies have been identified. Of these, there are 1399 colonies in the urban body area. He said that through the Resident Welfare Associations, the government has called for applications to regularize these illegal colonies. So far, proposals for applications of 66 colonies have been received through RWA. These colonies will be regularised soon.

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