Senior Patna Metro official B. N. Singh said the decision to collect holding tax from the residents of Pataliputra Colony and Mainpura was taken considering the unprecedented change in the urban landscape, the existing infrastructural availability, and the growing burden on the municipality.

In a carefully detailed plan to inform the landowners in Pataliputra Colony and Mainpura, PMC officials would begin a publicity campaign starting Tuesday during which announcements over loudspeakers would be made to inform the residents of the change. The PMC then hold camps in those areas where forms would be distributed for landowners to fill and submit to the proper authority.

Those who fail to voluntarily fill and submit the form within a specified time would then be approached door to door and required to complete the formality after which the PMC officials would begin measuring the land and determine the amount of tax to be charged on them.

Pataliputra Colony that was started in 1954 by a group of private developers and managed by the Pataliputra Welfare Society had so far remained out of the jurisdiction of the PMC by setting up its own infrastructure including power and water supply for its residents and cleanliness and maintenance of the community.