GVMC threatening to impose penalties on households which do not have a plan: CPI(M)
The Hindu
‘This issue should be discussed in the civic body meet’
Members of the CPI(M) staged a protest alleging that the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has been harassing citizens by threatening to impose additional penalties on households which do not have a house plan.
Speaking at the protest near the GVMC office here on Friday, CPI(M) leader and corporator of Ward 78, B. Gangarao, said that the GVMC council had already passed a resolution regarding the of levying property tax based on the capital/market value. The GVMC is now sending ward volunteers and asking the households to show the plan. If there is no plan, the volunteers are threatening that huge penalty may be imposed, he said.
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