Bangalore: With just five days to go to pay your property tax, are you dreading long queues at BBMP help centres?
With a little help from your resident welfare association (RWA), you can have the BBMP coming to your doorstep and collecting the taxes of all residents.
They bring the form, help you fill it up, collect the completed form along with the cheque and give you the receipt. A few RWAs and apartment association members are already doing this.
Zaffar Sait, ex-president of Richards Town Residents’ Association, has helped submit a thousand forms from his area. There are 600 apartments in his area alongside a few independent residences. “People are confused when it comes to buying the forms, filling them up and submitting them at the counters. We started on this initiative when there was a shortage of forms at our help centre initially,’’ he explains.
He and a few other association members picked up a thousand forms from the palike office and distributed them to residents in their area, helped them fill them and even assisted in submitting it at the help centre.
Karnataka Hardware and Elite Merchants Association has submitted 200 applications in the past 10 days — those of association members as also residents from surrounding areas like S P Road. “We collect the forms from the individuals and then inform the respective AROs. They come to our house or office and collect them,’’ says association chairman B K Goyal.
The palike also received nearly 500 forms from Marathahalli and a few from Old Madras Road. A majority are from apartment associations. The unit being almost similar in dimensions, and facilities like the online tax calculator, have made it simple for the association to help calculate tax for all. A couple of associations in Malleswaram have also got into this new act recently.
“With such help from RWAs and apartment association members in a few areas, particularly in the newly added areas like Mahadevapura and Bommanahalli, we have started going door-to-door collecting forms and cheques in bulk,’’ BBMP deputy commissioner (resources) U A Vasanth Rao said.
ZONAL HOTLINE
Resident welfare associations and apartment associations interested in assisting BBMP in tax collection can do so by helping in collecting the forms and cheques and then informing respective zonal heads with zonal hotline numbers listed below. South: 64551122 East: 64550022 West: 64550011 Bommanahalli: 64550066 Dasarahalli: 64550099 Mahadevpura: 64550044 Byatarayanapura: 64550088 RR Nagar: 64550033. There will be no property tax collection on Friday as all BBMP help centres will be closed for Ugadi
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