The Bihar Urban Development department is mulling involving the Postal department and banks for tax collection under seven muncipal corporations in the state on the pattern of New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC).
The move is aimed at evolving a smooth tax payment procedure so as to bring it to the doorstep of the holder.
"We are considering replicating the Delhi Municipal Corporation model for collection of municipal taxes,"
Principal secretary of the state urban development department S Jalja said.
As per the Delhi model, a tax collector does not go house to house, but is assigned a particular place where residents go and pay their municipal taxes. Besides the ward offices, the tax collection centre could even be a post office or a bank.
"We have asked the corporations to come back to us with a clear model. The idea is to make the municipal tax collection system more efficient, participative and voluntary," Jalja added.
She said the department had also decided to outsource on public-private-partnership basis sanitation work to tide over the crisis of shortage of sanitary workers in urban bodies.
Source:http://www.business-standard.com,07-05-08
