PRAYAGRAJ, April 10 -- Five years after several areas of the district were brought within city limits following the delimitation process, around 1.5 lakh additional buildings will now start paying house tax to the Prayagraj Municipal Corporation (PMC) based on their sizes. Owners of these properties will also be liable to pay water tax to the PMC from this financial year as per set norms.

The city had as many as 2.36 lakh buildings before the delimitation.

After the delimitation, the number of wards in Prayagraj city had increased from 80 to 100 with the new 20 wards created in urban areas of Naini, Jhunsi, Phaphamau and Jhalwa etc. Nine of these are in Allahabad parliamentary constituency while 11 are in Phulpur parliamentary constitue...