Top three taxpayers under NDITA selected, names to be put up on websites to encourage them

Bengal Intelligent Park (Omega Building), Forum Project Holdings and Institute of Engineering and Management are the three topmost property taxpayers in areas under Nabadiganta Industrial Township Development Authority (NDITA).

Earlier, the NDITA authorities had decided to reward the three top property taxpayers in Sector-V and accordingly it was found that these three had paid the highest property tax till 3 pm on March 31. Their names will be put up in NDITA website to encourage them.

NDITA authorities had held a series of talks with the defaulters and asked them to clear the property taxes. It may be mentioned that non-payment of property tax by big firms is a major problem in Kolkata and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) had to announce a property tax waiver scheme twice in the recent past to realise money from them.

Senior officials of NDITA also sat with their counterparts in the state I-T department and discussed issues like delay in the payment of property taxes and later, online realtime payment of property taxes was introduced. As revenue collection from property tax accounts for more than half of NDITA's income, the tax collection drive was intensified. The officials felt that the drive yielded good results.

The NDITA board has also cleared Rs 115 crore Budget for the agency in 2017-18 with Rs 32 lakh surplus. A slew of development projects has been taken up that will be funded from the Budget.

It has been decided that the Salt Lake bypass will be strengthened and the Ring Road will be extended till New Town.

The NDITA has chalked out elaborate plans for traffic management in Sector-V. Experts from IIT Kharagpur and senior officials of NDITA conducted an on-the-spot survey in Sector-V before making the management plan. A multi-storeyed car parking will also be set up in Sector-V. Plans have been taken up to construct an administrative building and a Town Hall.

Apart from these, the supply of filtered water will be augmented along with rainwater drainage pumping stations and recycling of waste water. Steps have also been taken to lay underground cable ducts.