Corporation to collect property tax from VOC Port

THOOTHUKUDI

THOOTHUKUDI

The first Corporation council meeting with newly elected Mayor Jegan Periyasamy in chair has resolved to collect property tax from the VOC Port and business houses having their offices in the seaport area.

Moving a resolution in the council meeting held on Friday, he said the VOC Port, which should have paid ₹ 15 crore as property tax to the corporation in the past 10 years alone, and the 117 firms having their offices in the port area were not paying the tax to the corporation even though a judgement delivered in the court in this connection had backed the corporation.

The council unanimously should resolve to collect property tax from VOC Port and the private firms having their offices in the port area, said Mr. Jegan, who was overwhelmingly supported in this connection.

The meeting also resolved to repair the badly damaged roads of Thoothukudi and organise intensive mass cleaning operations during the second and the fourth Saturdays.

 When the meeting’s agendas were being read, AIADMK councillor and Opposition leader Veerabahu wanted to know if the motors purchased for pumping out stagnant rainwater at several places of the town were being maintained properly. Mr. Jegan replied that the coastal town, which was experiencing flooding due to the poor planning of the official machinery during the previous AIADMK regime, was being provided with proper infrastructure to mitigate these issues during northeast monsoon this year.

 As Mr. Veerabahu wanted the council to adopt a resolution against the re-opening of the sealed Sterlite Copper unit, the Mayor said the copper manufacturing unit would not be re-opened as the Tamil Nadu government was firm in its decision of permanently closing down the unit.