Chandigarh, April 22 -- Amid the widespread political and public uproar over the steep hike in property tax, the Punjab governor and UT administrator Gulab Chand Kataria has called a meeting with city's past 10 mayors and the current municipal commissioner on Tuesday to discuss the Chandigarh municipal corporation's deepening financial crisis, which spurred the hike.

This came hours after a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) delegation, led by city president Jatinder Pal Malhotra and mayor Harpreet Kaur Babla, on Monday met Kataria, demanding roll-back of the recently hiked property tax.

Facing mounting public outrage over the tripling of residential property tax-from 3% to 9% of the annual rateable value (ARV)-and the doubling of commercial ...