Chandigarh, April 3 -- Both the Congress and BJP leaders on Wednesday criticised the UT Administration for "exorbitantly" increasing the property tax levied on private residential and commercial units in Chandigarh.
In a statement, senior Congress leader and Chandigarh MP Manish Tewari criticised the UT Administration for exorbitantly increasing the property tax levied on private residential and commercial units. Tewari said that a table agenda to increase property tax was brought before the General House of the Municipal Corporation (MC) on February 17 and it was subsequently withdrawn before it could even be deliberated upon. "How can property tax be levied by the MC without the House being given a chance of even discussing it, much less...