North Delhi Municipal Corporation’s (NDMC’s) commissioner, Praveen Gupta has said that the civic authority would soon unveil a portal, where residents would be able to avail property-related facilities, by logging in through a UPIC (Unique Property Identification Code) number or Aadhaar number or name and address or by scanning of a QR code on the UPIC card. “This is step forward, towards ease of doing business by digitisation of property tax records,” he said, adding that the property tax collection of the NDMC had increased to Rs 613 crores in 2016-17 from Rs 371 crores in 2015-16.
The portal is part of the e-governance measures taken by the NDMC and would also have details on property tax deposited since 2004-05, the civic body said.
“Tax payers can know their dues as the digital platform would calculate the tax according to prevalent rates, schemes and rebates applicable. They can also request for modification in details, including mutation or change of name. They would be able to also lodge complaints regarding false details about property,” he said.
Tax payers would be getting alerts and information about schemes or rebates through mobile text message or e-mail. The NDMC said the provision for inclusion or modification of property in property tax net has been provided, as a request for it came up during a survey of UPIC users.
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Gupta further said as per its digitisation drive, 5,31,389 properties have been scanned, 1,38,221 properties have been taken up for reconciliation and 1,22,614 properties have been reconciled by merging them. “As part of the digitisation process, total number of tax payers for 2016-17 increased from 3,95,043 to 4,40,145 in 2016-17,” he said. As per increase in quantum of tax collection, Gupta attributed it to steps like digitisation of properties and issuing of UPIC card.
The UPIC project, started in late 2014, involves a door-to-door survey of all properties with GPS-based data and generation of a unique identity number for every property in NDMC’s area.
“So far 6,19,581 properties have been surveyed and 2,51,373 properties have been finalised after GSDL verification. 1,14,200 units of UPIC package are ready for distribution,” he added.
