Chandigarh, April 3 -- Senior Congress leader and Chandigarh MP Manish Tewari on Thursday demanded withdrawal of the exorbitant hike in the house tax and collector rates for registering property here.
Tewari noted that the whopping hike in the house tax rates and collector rates for the sale and purchase of property was apparently done to meet the municipal expenses of the city that is supposedly bankrupt .
He said the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (CMC) should get 30 percent of the total grant the Union Territory gets out of the union budget according to the formula evolved by the Delhi Finance Commisson.
He said, this year Rs 6100 crore had been allocated to the UT. So, going by the calculation, the CMC should get between Rs 1700 to...