The property tax department of North Delhi Municipal Corporation [NDMC] is seriously considering a big technology leap. The corporation is planning to launch a door-to-door survey for tax collection in which the surveyors will be equipped with tablet for on the spot calculation of property tax with a printer attached to it to give the slip with outstanding of property tax. Further, this tablet would be connected to a server in the head office with GPS system where the data will be feed automatically. The entire process of survey is to be outsourced to a company.
The surveyors would be equipped with tablets-attached printers or mobile attached printers to compute the property tax on the spot, allot unique property identification code [UPIC], and print all the captured details to serve the occupant on the spot. The receipt will be immediately handed over to the owner or occuptant to deposit the property tax within a time. These tablets will be connected with property tax server in the head office with GPS system to catpute the real time data so that no seperate entry is required. The data subsequently will be updated in Municipal Assesment Book and Demand & Collection register.
According to senior officers they will also approach Delhi government to share the expenses and take the help of the data prepared by government agencies. ‘The address in the mobile phone connection, internet connection, gas connection, police verification of the tenanats, satellite maps of Delhi government agencies, Delhi Jal Board [DJB] consumer numbers would also be used for cross examination of the propoerties,’ said a senior officer of propoerty tax deparment. The survey would be conducted with the help of a company having expertise in the field which would be appointed after two stage bidding process-Request for Proposal [RFP] followed by Expression of Interest [EOI].
‘The most updated technological solutions would be used to bring more properties under property tax net and appropriate evaluation of the property tax of these properties. The corporation is facing loss of over hundreds of crore ruppees in liew of evasion of property tax by lakhs of citizens in the city. We hardly have 30 percent of the properties under our property tax net, furthermore they are under reporting their tax liabilities. The entire process needs a complete rehaul’ said Vijay Prakash Pandey, Dy Chairman of Standing Committee, NDMC. According to the policy drafted by the corporation a door to door survey of all the properties in the city would be carried out to accesse the property tax for individual properties.
The surveyors would be equipped with tablets-attached printers or mobile attached printers to compute the property tax on the spot, allot unique property identification code [UPIC], and print all the captured details to serve the occupant on the spot. The receipt will be immediately handed over to the owner or occuptant to deposit the property tax within a time. These tablets will be connected with property tax server in the head office with GPS system to catpute the real time data so that no seperate entry is required. The data subsequently will be updated in Municipal Assesment Book and Demand & Collection register.
According to senior officers they will also approach Delhi government to share the expenses and take the help of the data prepared by government agencies. ‘The address in the mobile phone connection, internet connection, gas connection, police verification of the tenanats, satellite maps of Delhi government agencies, Delhi Jal Board [DJB] consumer numbers would also be used for cross examination of the propoerties,’ said a senior officer of propoerty tax deparment. The survey would be conducted with the help of a company having expertise in the field which would be appointed after two stage bidding process-Request for Proposal [RFP] followed by Expression of Interest [EOI].
‘The most updated technological solutions would be used to bring more properties under property tax net and appropriate evaluation of the property tax of these properties. The corporation is facing loss of over hundreds of crore ruppees in liew of evasion of property tax by lakhs of citizens in the city. We hardly have 30 percent of the properties under our property tax net, furthermore they are under reporting their tax liabilities. The entire process needs a complete rehaul’ said Vijay Prakash Pandey, Dy Chairman of Standing Committee, NDMC. According to the policy drafted by the corporation a door to door survey of all the properties in the city would be carried out to accesse the property tax for individual properties.